Residential Flush Toilet

[Chevyfan388]

Has anyone installed a residential flush toilet in a Heartland FKSS, in place of the marine type toilet? If so could you please tell me the brand and model of it. Thanks

 

[jimtoo]

Hi Chevyfan388,

Welcome to the Heartland Owners Forum and hopefully to the family. We have a great bunch of folks here with lots of information and all willing to share their knowledge when needed.

I have never heard of anyone installing a residential toilet in an RV. I would guess it could be done using the newer units that only use 1.5 gal or so. You would be adding a lot of weight and I think the plate is different,, not sure about that thou.

I'm sure you will get some more opinions also.

Jim M

 

[Chevyfan388]

I probably should have been more specific. My Country Ridge 40 FKSS sits on a permanent site and is not towed around. I actually installed a res. toilet in my other camper with no problems. The difference with this camper is the toilet is on an angled wall...http://www.bullyanrvs.com/inventory/212404/New-2013-Heartland-Country-Ridge-40FKSS.aspx

 

[Ray LeTourneau]

It can be done but I think you may have to modify the drain plumbing and install a direct drain to sewer connection. Probably need to tie the sink drains in as well. Otherwise your black tank will need to be dumped and flushed every few days. Or a set up where the toilet drain would have the grey tank drains plumbed into the main drain for the toilet. The base mounts are the same as residential.

 

[ParkIt]

I would think with a 1.6gpf you would need to have a larger flange with a taper to hook into the black tank lines, haven't measured them yet to see if its a top only modification. If you are hooked up all the time it's a viable option, if not you could fill the tank about 3 times as fast as the factory install commode.

 

[JohnDar]

Other than the mounts for the toilet base (the ones I've dealt with we're bolted to the floor on a wax ring), it's probably doable. Using a low flow toilet, 1.6 gallon/flush, you'll get about 20 visits to the throne before the sanitation engineer has to dump the tank. Unless your sinks are strangely plumbed into the black tank, I don't see why you would have to worry about that.