#Whole house sewage ejector system install#

I replaced the whole pump and sensor not long ago, and it actually wasn't that big a deal. That said, 99.9% of the time, it works fine, and if you're at all handy, when something does go wrong, it is pretty straightforward to fix it. If you can have a gravity fed system, it's well worthwhile, IMHO. Overall, it's not been a _huge_ issue, but when it is, it's something you have to deal with right away, and can be really stressful. In our case we are lucky we have one toilet and shower this is not an issue. Also - if you have an extended power outage - you have to be very careful with your water use, to not overflow the pit. You have to be very careful about not letting oils go down the drain, because they collect in the ejector pit, form fat balls, and eventually weigh down the float and you get an overflow (actually it is not that hard to clean these out, but it's a gross job, and not letting the oil go down the drain in the first place is a lot better. The stainless steel blades, driven by a motor, then start to rotate.

As the water level rises, the water pressure activates a microswitch causing the macerator device to turn on.

#Whole house sewage ejector system install#

These things seem to fail surprisingly often. The toilet is flushed and the effluent is discharged by gravity through the rear spigot of the fixture into the macerator device, positioned behind the fixture. I would NEVER install a whole house ejector pump if I had the choice. The effluent is then pumped out through 1-1/2 diameter rigid pipe. Usually it was related to the float valve. As soon as the wastewater level reaches the trigger point, the pumping system activates. Over the years, we've had several problems with the ejector pump. pre-packaged sewage basin system is perfect for pumping below grade toilets, washing machines and sinks to a sewer or on-site wastewater system. We opted to keep the ejector pump, and just run the sewer line from where it used to connect to the septic. 1/2 HP Submersible Sewage Ejector System. The Fixture unit calculation estimates usage demands of a typical plumbing fixture(s). But it would have required breaking up the basement floor to run the line, or tunneling underneath, and in either case, was quite a bit more expensive. When hooking up to the sewer, we were more than high enough above the street that we could have eliminated the ejector pump, and connect everything to gravity feed to the street. As it originally was, the upstairs bathroom gravity fed to the septic, but everything else in the house went to the pit in the basement, and the ejector pump pumped it up and into the septic tank. I bought a house with a septic system in a neighbourhood where sewers had just become available. I'll give you my experience with a sewage ejector pump, but TLDR is I would pay a fair bit more not to have to have one.