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[canalsiderenovation]

Help! Just come back off holiday and this thing is making a right old noise rather than the normal humming noise it makes. Can anyone advise if we should just turn it off til we can get someone to look at it or leave it running. 

 

 

[saveasteading]

Is 'it' the pump that bubbles air through the liquor?

 

Turning it off will do no harm. The contents will continue to separate and digest just not quite so well.

 

Have a look to see if bubbles are  coming up.

Phone Marsh on Tuesday.

@ProDave has changed a pump if I recall so he might be along.

[canalsiderenovation]

2 minutes ago, saveasteading said:

Is 'it' the pump that bubbles air through the liquor?

 

Turning it off will do no harm. The contents will continue to separate and digest just not quite so well.

 

Have a look to see if bubbles are  coming up.

Phone Marsh on Tuesday.

@ProDave has changed a pump if I recall so he might be along.

 

I believe it is the pump, we have turned it off for now. Builder guy knows someone and they are coming Tuesday. Just what we need 🙄

[canalsiderenovation]

Is it ok to put loo roll etc in it still? Don't want to knacker it.

[saveasteading]

21 minutes ago, canalsiderenovation said:

Is it ok to put loo roll etc in it still?

Go through the normal motions.

The motor only pumps air down a pipe to make bubbles go through  and add oxygen (and disturb the contents), as in an aquarium. 

Nothing mechanical is happening.

In the first chamber, the solid contents sink or float and don't move through. No harm can be done.

 

Good toilet paper is a pulp by the time it reaches the chamber anyway.

 

If it was my garden irrigation then I'd assume the pipe was blocked and blow along it. Don't do that unless with some device..

Or the rubber diaphragm in the pump has stuck. Again blowing through it....or not.

Have you given the box a slap?

[ToughButterCup]

Ours lasted a week before honking. Another vote for diaphragm issue here....

[Tom]

Looks like a Charles Austen pump, and easy enough to get a service kit from any number of online suppliers, which would include a new diaphragm/s. Turn the thing off, get the kit and fit it yourself, very simple to do.

 

8 minutes ago, ToughButterCup said:

Ours lasted a week before honking. Another vote for diaphragm issue here....

Same here! Though in our case the hose had just come detached from the pump. They seem to go smelly when it goes anaerobic.