Do It Yourself Bathrooms

Fitting a basement bathroom may sound like a really good use of space but have you checked the depth of the main drain.  If it’s not below your basement level then the law of gravity means that your sink won’t drain and your toilet won’t flush unless, of course, you planned your basement bathroom plumbing properly and installed a plastic sump under the floor.  The sump is equipped with a lift pump or sewage ejector pump which grinds up any solid matter and pushes it through a small bore pipe into the main drain.This wonderful device means you can use conventional bathroom fixtures and design your bathroom as you would anywhere else in the house.  Worries about power failure and sewage all over the basement won’t materialize as all that happens is the toilet won’t flush away and the sink won’t drain so, you’ll know that something is wrong.