Summary: Now constructing a toilet on the top floor of your building is not a dream anymore. With the toilets that flush up, it can be now easily done and with reliability; without disturbing the codes of plumbing department.
Question: I have a dream of building an additional bathroom to my house. I also want to build one on the top floor of my house for the guests. I doubt if it is possible because there are no drainage lines nearby. I have heard that there is a necessity of these plumbing drainage lines. Will my dream come true? Will I be able to build a toilet that is affordable and which does not demand extensive efforts?
Answer: You must feel lucky to be born in this modern world where impossible things have been made possible by technology. This fact also holds good for the plumbing field. Gone are the days when you had to remodel the whole house and the concrete basements in order to give connections to the plumbing drain lines that would multiply the budget set by you. The only other way would be to stop dreaming of a beautiful bathroom. Today things have changed and technology tells you to keep dreaming bigger and making your home what you want it to be.
If you do not have gravity supported plumbing drain line in the room of your basement, then there is a way out. You can construct a sump pit that collects the storm water or waste water and takes water where out onto the ground or into an approved plumbing drainage system. The main plumbing drain line may exit a side wall of a foundation as it heads to the city sewer or a septic system. In this arrangement, there is a problem that one cannot dispose off the toilet wastes from the house. There is a solution available in the market, but rather costly. Choose it if you are ready to spend considerable amount of money. You can install a sump pit sealed with a sewage ejection pump. These are experts in pulling all the toilet waste and send them directly into the plumbing sewer or drain lines. The installation of the ejection pump involves great risk and is not a do-it-yourself task; rather you should get it done by expert plumbers only.
The smartest choice to get rid of this problem would be to install a toilet that automatically flushes up all the waste from your house and transfers it to the gravity drain lines. These high performance fixtures come with inbuilt arrangements that pump the wastes with ease. These also support various connections to bathroom sinks, tubs, showers, bidets and even urinals. The powerful pump inside the toilet can actually lift the waste water as high as 12 feet and/or pump it 150 feet horizontally to where it connects to the plumbing drains system of your home.
Now, this is the best solution if you have a problem at any floor of the building. May it be the highest or the lowest floor of the building? With growing needs of such fixtures, these toilets have been allowed to be used for residential and commercial buildings. All the formalities of the local plumbing department have been cleared by almost all manufacturers who have obtained legal approval. The equipment used for these fixtures must also be confirmed for legality and safety. You can easily obtain the list of certified plumbing manufacturers and suppliers from your local plumbing department.
The interest of public health and welfare are the basis for the plumbing code. Plumbing inspectors help to keep you and your family safe from the spread of disease. Consider him to be a friend, not an obstacle. Obviously, even if a single small connection goes wrong, the whole society may be affected badly. So always make it a point to follow all the legal formalities.
Finally, these fixtures need large amounts of money for installation but not as large an amount as it would have incurred upon you if you had chosen to go with the sealed ejection pumps or the underground piping system. One of the best features of these toilets is time savings with respect to finishing the job. Better to invest money on time saving fixtures that are highly reliable and promising.
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