Need your expert advice guys - unexplained pipe going into my wall..

[lame plumber]

lovely lead, cut off, squeeze up and leftovers in the van🙂

 

[Jennifer1991]

Thanks all, for your kind help 🙂

Seems like I can get rid of this, then.

Is there any danger if I just cut if off, so it terminates just in front of the wall? (I.e. it is kind of left, "dangling" there), or does it need to be taken all the way back to the stack?

 

[AWheating]

best to cut it back as far as you can. Then if it does leak it wont run down your windows and the smell will be further away from your window. Maybe have a word with the neighbour who has the other part into there wall and discuss if they want it removing as well. could share the costs if you get somebody in.

 

[Dotty]

:iagree:

I was wondering about the other pipe where that vanishes into the wall too.

Either way, decent plumber can remove the vent, seal the stack and make good the wall.

I'd heartily recommend any of the guys off here. Whereabouts are you Jenni?

 

[Jennifer1991]

Thanks AWheating!

By the way, are these vent pipes only something that's needed on old toilets? I'm wondering if I should be concerned that it's not connected to my new toilet.

The reason I ask, on my new toilet, it has a push button flush and it i need to push the button four or five times before it catches. When it does catch and flush though, the flush strength is fine though. Just asking, because people here were saying that the pipe helps with pressure.

Maybe my toilet problem is more related to a defective flushing mechanism though?

Thanks in advance

 

[Dotty]

The flush issue is a coincidence Jenni. The plumber you get in can look at that too!

Post a thread in the 'I'm looking for a plumber / gas engineer' section of these forums remembering to include your location. [DLMURL="http://www.ukplumbersforums.co.uk/im-looking-plumber-gas-engineer/"]I'm looking for a Plumber or Gas Engineer[/DLMURL]

 

[tomma]

Looks like an old vent pipe

 

[Dotty]

How much of this thread did you read tomma?

 

[tom609]

That pipe is definately an old vent pipe and would be best cut back to as close as possible to the main stack you are right in assuming that the new brickwork is where the old loo was and the vent usually came off the soil pipe though some w/c pans also had a vent plug on the back to connect the vent pipe

 

[Jennifer1991]

thanks everyone for your help! to croppie's early question, i'm just outside london,so will definitely be posting here to give one of you guys some business.

The only problem is, I'm a top floor flat, so I don't think it will be possible to seal it off at the stack, without scaffolding.. So i think the only option is to hang out of the window and cut it off and seal it (is this possible?)

 

[tom609]

Health and safety issues maybe a cherry picker would do it check your insurance??

 

[lame plumber]

Looks like an old vent pipe

da daaaaaa, flip to the front tomma

 

[Gas]

thanks everyone for your help! to croppie's early question, i'm just outside london,so will definitely be posting here to give one of you guys some business.

The only problem is, I'm a top floor flat, so I don't think it will be possible to seal it off at the stack, without scaffolding.. So i think the only option is to hang out of the window and cut it off and seal it (is this possible?)

Working up to 2 floors high is fine with the ladders, any higher and it would require renting a cherry picker, as already mentioned

 

[Dotty]

thanks everyone for your help! to croppie's early question, i'm just outside london,so will definitely be posting here to give one of you guys some business.

The only problem is, I'm a top floor flat, so I don't think it will be possible to seal it off at the stack, without scaffolding.. So i think the only option is to hang out of the window and cut it off and seal it (is this possible?)

Not really but if it's lead a good clumping will seal it!

 

[SimonG]

Window up, bolster and mash hammer (def looks like lead), squish and cut pipe, pull out of wall, make good and window down.

 

[Rickster123]

Window up, bolster and mash hammer (def looks like lead), squish and cut pipe, pull out of wall, make good and window down.

Health and safety my ar**!

 

[SimonG]

Well you could always use a rope round your waist tied to something heavy or get somebody to keep hold of your feet.

 

[Rickster123]

Well you could always use a rope round your waist tied to something heavy or get somebody to keep hold of your feet.

Croppie ticks both boxes there!

 

[SimonG]

Ouch!

 

[tamz]

Thanks AWheating!

By the way, are these vent pipes only something that's needed on old toilets? I'm wondering if I should be concerned that it's not connected to my new toilet.

It is a one pipe fully vented system. The additional vent was there to prevent the loss of the trap seal which would let smells in.
No longer done as things have moved on a bit since then.
You may find this interesting (it will take 2 minutes to read) and explains the basics.
[DLMURL]http://www.cibse.org/pdfs/Shouler.pdf[/DLMURL]