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Having changed everything else on new boat I'm thinking of replacing toilets, vacuum fresh water with foot pedal flush which I am not keen on. Seem to remember jfm recommending a brand. Looking for push button flush or similar.
 
I fitted Planus toilets last November.
I believe that the Planus company was formed by the employees/owners of Tecma before Tecma was taken over by the current owners.
The Planus toilets are great - essentially the same as Tecma.
Way better than Vacuflush which are the work of the devil.
The only drawback is that Planus/Tecma use more water than Vacuflush but that is a small price to pay for a superior toilet system.
I managed to keep our Vacuflush toilets working for about 9 years.
Keeping them working involved loads of parts including pressure switches and seals.

The final decision for me was when the cost of the parts to keep the Vacuflush working was more than the supply of new Planus toilets!!

You really don't want to fit Vacuflush.

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Planus/Tecma are simpler to install and take far less room.
 
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Hurricane said:
I fitted Planus toilets last November.
I believe that the Planus company was formed by the employees/owners of Tecma before Tecma was taken over by the current owners.
The Planus toilets are great - essentially the same as Tecma.
Way better than Vacuflush which are the work of the devil.
The only drawback is that Planus/Tecma use more water than Vacuflush but that is a small price to pay for a superior toilet system.
I managed to keep our Vacuflush toilets working for about 9 years.
Keeping them working involved loads of parts including pressure switches and seals.

The final decision for me was when the cost of the parts to keep the Vacuflush working was more than the supply of new Planus toilets!!

You really don't want to fit Vacuflush.

EDIT
Planus/Tecma are simpler to install and take far less room.
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And you don’t need to give guests instructions as you do with vacuthingys.
 
I put in a Jabsco lite thing earlier this year. Works fine but it's a shite to fit. They say its a direct swap for a manual jabsco....is it hell.

The footprint will fit but the pipes in and out are totally different angles and heights meaning that you have to re route both pipes and chop your boat about. The waste pipe has to go down lower than the loo or the angles are all wrong...took me months to get it right.
 
Sailorsam101 said:
I put in a Jabsco lite thing earlier this year. Works fine but it's a shite to fit. They say its a direct swap for a manual jabsco....is it hell.

The footprint will fit but the pipes in and out are totally different angles and heights meaning that you have to re route both pipes and chop your boat about. The waste pipe has to go down lower than the loo or the angles are all wrong...took me months to get it right.
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That’s the other tecma thing - smooth china bowl hides all pipes and wires so easy to clean. And SO much quieter than jabsco whos “quiet flush” is a joke name.
 
Elessar said:
That’s the other tecma thing - smooth china bowl hides all pipes and wires so easy to clean. And SO much quieter than jabsco whos “quiet flush” is a joke name.
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Yep - agreed
I had our Planus ones supplied with separate control boxes and separate solenoid valves.
We then fitted them in convenient places below the deck floor.
In my case, I changed the wires as well - the old Vac system doesn't use as much power so we increased the wire sizes.
Pipework is relatively straight forward. - I used butyl rubber pipes between the new toilets and the holding tank.
 
When you operate our Jabsco "quiet flush", it sounds as if you have just catapulted the contents of the bowl 50ft into the air.
Standard fit on many Sealines, but not really recommended.
 
Bog (no pun) standard one-button electric Jabsco. Cheap as chips, first one did 10 years without touching it, second one four years old and still just pressing the button!

Whole assembly £308

Motor/Pump assembly (10 minutes fitting) £180

So cheap you just throw it away and put a new motor/pump assembly in if it goes wrong, but they last well for £300 a pop!
 
Scala said:
Got Tecma electric with freshwater flush on mine. Been mostly excellent apart from one, err, "blockage" caused by the volume of waste matter deposited in one sitting .... Not what I would call "quiet" though.
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For your run of the mill "mr hanky" (google it!) or what in manual loo parlance would be a "2 hander" then a normal plunger seems to sort it out. Mine's only been out for a full blockage once - it was an olive stone that had jammed in there. The old loos were forever being taken out, and I don't think the number of erroneous sanitary products going down there has reduced. They do seem to munch most anything.
 
Had freshwater flushed Tecmas on 4 successive boats. Can't fault them. Except for their marketing slogan "The World of Toilet"
 
Dont see many over here, but the two Raritan manual toilets fitted to our previous Island Packet and the current one have been trouble free. 6 seasons with the first, halfway through the third season with the current one. Both have been the full size bowl versions.
 
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