Your New Bathroom Addition Can Conserve Water and Cut Installation Costs.

EDISON, N.J., April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- When it comes to saving water, every drop counts. The bathrooms in your home are good targets because that's where a lot of water goes down the drain. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, residential toilets account for a third of our nation's indoor household water use, or more than 2.1 trillion gallons of water a year.

SFA Saniflo's unique above-floor plumbing alternative offers environmentally conscious homeowners the advantage of adding a low-flush toilet with low-cost installation, even in a basement.

If your home was built prior to 1992 when the federal government began mandating low-flush toilets, your existing bathroom likely uses 3.5 gallons each time you flush. If your home dates back to the 1950s or earlier, you may have a 5.5-gallon or even a 7-gallon-per-flush water guzzler! By choosing a low-flush toilet, a family of four can save some 50 gallons of water each day -- that's close to 20,000 gallons annually!

A Green Basement? Sure!

But what if you want to add a bathroom in the basement or anywhere without existing plumbing drainage lines? The high cost of installing drainage lines, including digging through cement for a basement project, can easily outpace the money you'll save on your water bill. Saniflo's innovative above-floor plumbing is the cost-effective, water-saving answer.

Saniflo makes modern low-consumption toilet systems that use "macerating" plumbing technology that eliminates the need to dig up the floor.

"Opening a hole in the concrete can add three days to a bathroom addition," says Mike Coletto, an independent plumbing, HVAC and electrical contractor in Illinois who has more than 15 years of residential plumbing experience. "Without digging, I can install a Saniflo system in about half a day. And my customers don't have to deal with jackhammers and the mess of blasting through floors."

A macerating toilet looks very much like a conventional toilet and takes up roughly the same floor space. But instead of routing the flush water through a floor drain, the system moves it to a pump, located on the floor between the toilet and the wall, or hidden behind the wall. The fixtures will work up to 12 feet below and as far as 150 feet away from a septic tank or sewer line.

This macerator pump uses a fast-rotating blade to liquefy waste and toilet paper in the flush water. The waste is released under pressure through small-diameter piping to the sewer or septic tank. It requires no special maintenance, and the pump is sealed for life.

All Saniflo toilets are low-consumption: Most use 1.6 gallons per flush; two models use only 1.1 gpf. Installing a sub-level Saniflo bathroom not only solves a costly plumbing problem, it makes it easy to cut your water usage.

Whether you add a bathroom in the basement or anywhere else in the house, Saniflo systems provide a high-quality, economical upgrade that will serve your family -- and the environment -- well for years to come.

For more information about Saniflo bathroom systems, contact Saniflo at 1-800-363-5874. Or visit the Saniflo Web site at http://www.saniflo.com.