Boat wc

[Boathook]

Lavac.

 

[Carmel2]

Do not go with a Johnson one! In one year the seam on the elbow joint split, the hinges on the seat fell apart. and when I tried to change the flappy thing at the top of the piston all of the self-tapping female bits disintegrated, we are back to the Jabsco and my arse could not be happier.

 

[ianj99]

Lavac.

+1 for Lavac - I went for the electric model to replace a manual Jabsco

 

[PetiteFleur]

I also have a Lavac and they are excellent, new 10 years ago - I managed to crack the bowl on the original and a new one was only a few pounds more than a replacement bowl. I now have a lot spares which have not been used. Prefious boat had a Jabsco - but I prefer the Lavac.

 

[Modulation]

We use Jabscos on the boat and have lived on board for five years with only annual maintenance to them. Cheap, easy to fix and reliable and easily available spares. Although the screws used to hold them together look like self tappers, they are not in fact true self tappers. You need to be careful with them and engage them in the threads cut into the plastic: do that and don't overtighten and they'll last for years.

Others will now join in and rubbish them but they work for us!

I agree. Mine was 18 years old lasr year and was starting to leak around the piston. I was going to fit a new on but was put off by worries that the fixing holes were at different centres. A spares kit was £25ish and I just told myself that I'd have 2 hours unpleasant smelly work - you get into a "bite the bullet" frame of mind. I raplaced all the pipework as well as it it seriously scaled up with the i. d. down from 38m to 20mm.

Forgot to say that I dispensed with all the self tappers by drilling out the holes and replacing with bolts - much more reliable.