We have a new family member living in a condo that I own who has a big problem with enormous poop. This person is also somewhat mentally disabled and I’m not sure how capable of addressing this issue.
So I was wondering whether there are toilets with grinders and power flush (or something like that) that can grind up enormous turds and flushing them away.
I googled for grinder toilets and found various models but they all seem to be designed for installing in a basement to solve the problem of flushing upward.
I am talking about poop that looks like it came out of an elephant.
Maybe you need one of those institutional toilets, the kind with a 2" water supply (instead of a storage tank) that deliver a high-pressure water jet aimed straight at the outlet to forcibly drive everything down the drain.
“Flushometer” seems to be what I’m talking about. The bowls and valves appear to be available from multiple manufacturers; I’d suggest visiting a plumbing or building supply store and inquiring about that name.
If the problem is that the stool is too large to fit into the toilet’s trapway, there are toilets with larger diameter trapways. Caroma toilets have 4" trapways. If that’s not big enough (I’ll admit that I’m not familiar with elephant poop), perhaps an incinerating toilet would work.
I had family in town last weekend, and my 15-year-old nephew dropped a log in our toilet that defied belief. If you told me that monstrosity could have passed through the anus of this tall, skinny kid, i would never have believed you.
A couple of flushes made clear that there was no way this massive trout was ever going to make it through the S-bend. It had to be physically pummeled into submission with the plunger.
What about a British style toilet? There’s no valves in the pan, so the waste lands in the reasonably deep water*. When the flush goes, everything in the pan goes round the U bend which goes into a 4" pipe. Better still if you have a traditional high cistern, where you pull the chain and the water has at least a 6’ head start before it forces the elephant turd down the pan.
A cross section of my bog looks like this, so there’s a reasonably large opening to get everything down. Whether this meets with your local building standards is another matter.
The only other option that I have used where volume is not a problem was a long drop composting toilet. Not very suitable for domestic situations, and the smell in the summer was interesting to say the least.
*This has the unfortunate effect of occasional splashback…
Possible TMI follows.
[spoiler]Or on the other hand you can have the turd which doesn’t break off before it hits the water.
Which is even more impressive if you are on a diving board at the time…:)[/spoiler]
Lol, I have the same problem. For some reason, I always clog the toilet. I think you should just buy a better toilet… one of those with a high-powered flusher.
Between regular toilets (which come with a bewildering array of “super-flush” designations, which are nearly all pure marketing BS) and the commercial high-pressure flushers that sound like a backfiring jet engine, there are “vacuum assist” toilets that are not terribly expensive, noisy or requiring of special plumbing. I can vouch for their ability to carry away at least medium-sized elephant poop.
You want a toilet with a wide trap. American toilets seem to clog easily because they have narrower traps and “exhaust” diameter. Try to get a toilet with a wider passage.
Toilets which use flushometer and have a jet that pushes the waste down are better BUT they require higher water pressure to work well. Make sure before you buy one.
Macerating toilets (often used on boats) would not be the best solution because they macerate after the trap where the clog is. The main purpose of a macerator toilet is to be able to use a narrower waste pipe, not to be able to handle bigger waste.
Having a regular tank higher up does nothing unless you have a very wide pipe (which you don’t). A low tank dumps the water quicker because the connection is wider.
When I travel and clog toilets I will often just take a bucket and pour it from a certain height and the force and pressure is often enough to make things move.
The macerating pump is for situations where you cant usually put a toilet, where the “stuff” has to be ground up so it can be pumped through a 2" pipe to the sewer… 2" pipes clog up the box of tricks might stop working and then the only option is set fire to the house and run…On a more practical front a hands off approach is to pour a kettle of boiling water on the offending “stuff”, that helps it break up…also some camping toilets work with a liquid that will dissolve it into goo before flushing…