Removing a toilet,anything i should know ?

[sailorman]

I would use a grinder and cut the fitting not the GRP. If you can grind the inner nut through it will split easily enough with a large screw driver twisted in the grind slot. You can then knock out the mushroom or lever it out from the outside. If levering use a scraper (or similar) under your lever to protect the hull.

i would cut a cruciform through the skin fitting flange & very carefully prise the flange, removing in sections,from the outside as the sealant might fracture the gelcoat / laminate if its driven from inside

 

[Ben Dockrell 22]

i would cut a cruciform through the skin fitting flange & very carefully prise the flange, removing in sections,from the outside as the sealant might fracture the gelcoat / laminate if its driven from inside

Just use a handdril to cut two or three small consecutive holes so a hacksaw blade can fit in keeping the drill bit and blade wet while i use them to keep particulates out of the air.

 

[Ben Dockrell 22]

You are indeed a very lucky chap after the past 3 weeks

I have no idea what you could ever posssibly mean

 

[Bobobolinsky]

If it's bronze, I use a cone drill, from the outside, to take off the mushroom and then punch out. Quick and easy.

No-one has mentioned heads two locks from the sea. Inland waters require the use of a holding tank and pump out or Porta Potti

 

[Ben Dockrell 22]

If it's bronze, I use a cone drill, from the outside, to take off the mushroom and then punch out. Quick and easy.

No-one has mentioned heads two locks from the sea. Inland waters require the use of a holding tank and pump out or Porta Potti

Bob duely noted thank-you

 

[sailorman]

I have no idea what you could ever posssibly mean

To find DRY LAND

 

[penfold]

Best way if you are permanently removing them and they are normal mushroom shape skin fittings is to grind off the flange outside with an angle grinder and whack the remains through the hole in the hull. About 3 minutes each - be careful not to damage the surrounding GRP.

This is the quickest reliable way of removing them without damaging the GRP; even the pros do it this way, mainly because it's quick. Give the fitting a splash with a wet rag to cool it down a couple of times while grinding as if you don't the heat could damage the GRP. The nuts very rarely undo, are often barstewards to get at with a decent-sized stilson and a new skin fitting doesn't cost much anyway.

 

[Ben Dockrell 22]

This is the quickest reliable way of removing them without damaging the GRP; even the pros do it this way, mainly because it's quick. Give the fitting a splash with a wet rag to cool it down a couple of times while grinding as if you don't the heat could damage the GRP. The nuts very rarely undo, are often barstewards to get at with a decent-sized stilson and a new skin fitting doesn't cost much anyway.

"The nuts very rarely undo, are often barstewards to get at"


Tell me about it! yeahhhhhhh !!!

 

[Tranona]

"The nuts very rarely undo, are often barstewards to get at"


Tell me about it! yeahhhhhhh !!!

Get yourself a cheap angle grinder. You will find plenty of use for it once you have it and learn to use it safely.

 

[Dazedkipper]

Don't chew your fingernails afterwards,

 

[Talulah]

If you have your partner to help get a bar of chocolate and break it in to tiny pieces.
Then come out of the heads cursing and swearing with broken bits of chocolate all over your head and face.
Start picking off bits and eating them offering a piece of 'brown stuff' to your partner.
Put video on Youtube.

 

[Ben Dockrell 22]

If you have your partner to help get a bar of chocolate and break it in to tiny pieces.
Then come out of the heads cursing and swearing with broken bits of chocolate all over your head and face.
Start picking off bits and eating them offering a piece of 'brown stuff' to your partner.
Put video on Youtube.

I dont have a partner Talulah.

Im a bit stuck in my ways and tend to be single minded so they get fed up when they see i wont make the effort to socialise going out or asking friends round ect ect.

Though i always have room in my life for online friends and the odd face to face chat.

Dont drink dont smoke, only missing the halo

*makes note of choccie bar trick*

 

[ghostlymoron]

Yes its empty ( now )

Are there regulation requirements for toilets on personal leisure boats?


Just thought id ask

Why would you want to remove the toilet? Do you have a colostomy bag?

 

[Ben Dockrell 22]

Just like me

the long to be

cla-los-ta-my



Just prefer a nice commode

a bucket is a wonderful thing.

 

[robmcg]

Why would you want to remove the toilet? Do you have a colostomy bag?

Yeah, I asked that one too!! Madness, absolute madness!! A bucket is a VERY poor substitute for a working sea toilet.

 

[Boz]

I reckon you'll do more damage trying to remove the valves than just leaving them in place and removing the levers or wiring them to be immovable
Unless they are in the way of course

I tried the same on my Galion 22 and found that not only are they glassed in, but there is a half inch wooden strenghthening piece as well, not to mention trying to remove old anti syphon piping ........

They built them like brick "£$% houses in those days..... Pun intended

Boz

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Not sure I agree Boz.

Personally i'd not leave an unused seacock, and would go to the effort of removing and reglassing it.

 

[Ben Dockrell 22]

I reckon you'll do more damage trying to remove the valves than just leaving them in place and removing the levers or wiring them to be immovable
Unless they are in the way of course

I tried the same on my Galion 22 and found that not only are they glassed in, but there is a half inch wooden strenghthening piece as well, not to mention trying to remove old anti syphon piping ........

They built them like brick "£$% houses in those days..... Pun intended

Boz

Fill them in with adhesive filler rather than remove them, perhaps???

 

[Boz]

Not sure I agree Boz.

Personally i'd not leave an unused seacock, and would go to the effort of removing and reglassing it.

I agree, but it'll be a job for next winter now, I would have kept the sea toilet, but having spent a day (literally) trying to reconnect the outlet hose only to find the pump not working.... temper got the better of me and the SL400 is now sat in my garage.

The porta potty is at least a step up from the bucket!

But you're right the valves will have to come out eventually.

 

[mcframe]

Don't chew your fingernails afterwards,

Plumbers *never* bite their fingernails.