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  1. moonlight

    Best way to drill a hole in a cast iron soil pipe.

    Can anyone tell me what is the best way to drill a hole in a soil stack. What drill would be best.Its external. Thanks.
  2. D

    Soil pipe connections

    I have a soil pipe coming out of the concrete floor under the window I am just wondering as it’s 220 mm off the wall can I use a 100 mm misaligned pan connector then a flexy pipe with boss to use a small projection toilet all information i am grateful for experts opinions Regards Gary
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    Wall hung toilet in brick work with rear soil pipe

    Hi, First post (be gentle!) I joined looking for advice and hope someone can help! I’m looking to get a wall hung toilet but have a couple of issuers. The wall is breeze block (3 inch thick) then a cavity before the external wall. The cavity is about 4-6 inches in size from what I can tell...
  4. V

    Soil Stacks and Connections

    Hi, I've been reading a lot about drainage connections and wondering if anyone can clear up a few things. I've sketched out the bathroom and utility plan below. Basic plan is: Foul stack coming from WC/Shower room overhead run internally in a large wall Connect ground floor into the stack -...
  5. S

    68mm rainwater to 110mm Soil

    I am currently looking at the possibility of adding a downstairs toilet and basin and the only viable drain is a 68mm rainwater on the outside of the wall where the cloakroom will be. I have combined drains at my property, the 110mm drain is reduced down to 68mm CI and runs as a rainwater to the...
  6. A

    bathroom soil and waste pipe uncertainty

    I'm creating a wet room out of a bathroom. I lifted the floors to find the soil pipe run as in the attached diagrams. Two questions (assuming I can get the required fall) 1) Is this soil pipe arrangement (in yellow) look okay to you? It looks unnecessarily convoluted to me. I think there was...
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    Pan Connector to Soil Pipe - Cut or not to Cut

    All, We have an old soil pipe stack which has an inner diameter of 90mm. I presume it is a pitch fibre soil pipe (it's not cast iron). I have been down the local plumbers' merchants and sourced a suitable pan connector, namely a McAlpine WC-CON7B. The toilet outlet is around 30mm higher...
  8. K

    Hole in soil pipe in internal wall

    Hi, I've discovered the soil pipe that runs from my main bathroom (1st floor) down through an internal brick wall void has a large hole in it. I've stopped using the bathroom as the water running out of light switches in the porch below when i showered didn't seem great! What type of...
  9. fknMarko

    How long can soil pipe from the toilet to the soil stack be? And can it have a bend?

    I’ve included a sketch of roughly how I want my soil pipe to be routed. I’ll need to use an s-trap for the toilet so the pipe goes straight down through the floor and into the kitchen below before bending it back into a near-horizontal sloping pipe (1/80 gradient) that runs along the edge of the...
  10. fknMarko

    Can I joint a manrose part onto a soil pipe to use as part of the soil vent?

    Hi. I finally got the keys to my first house a few weeks ago. It's a small house so I'm doing what I can to save space. Currently, the vent pipe in the bathroom for the toilet's soil pipe is boxed into the corner of the room, against an external wall and an internal wall that is roughly 7cm...
  11. M

    Soil pipe boss sizes

    I need to boss on to an old push fit branch, however the poly pipe boss adaptors I carry are way too big. The internal diameter of the boss is around 49-50mm. Tried 50mm pipe in the boss and it doesn’t fit, a 50mm fitting doesn’t fit over the outside of it either. Any ideas what I need? Think it...
  12. S

    Adding toilet to soil stack

    Hi, I have an old cast iron pipe that needs replacing and I want to remove it completely and divert an upstairs toilet to the second soil stack I already have a few meters across the wall. the second soil stack already has a downstairs toilet on it. I would like to know more as I’ve been...
  13. B

    Strap on boss below soil pipe

    Hi a quick simple question I want to add a strap boss on the main vertical soil pipe for a shower tray waste pipe but only have room and the height below the horizontal toilet soil pipe going into the soil stack It is not directly below but to the left Will this be a problem with soil waste...
  14. P

    Soil Pipe Box smell and insulation.

    Hello all, Our first post on here, so please be gentle. We are based in the UK and undergoing a kitchen renovation (not a DIY build), and just had the soil pipe box removed from the utility room (in order to make it smaller to allow us to fit wall cabinets and easily access/remove the washing...
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    Plastic kitchen drain pipe needs to fix into ceramic soil pipe, nr Redruth Cornwall UK

    My kitchen waste pipe discharges into a pipe going to my soakaway. It has now unsurprisingly become blocked (about 6 m from the drain). The soil pipe from the toilet to my septic tank passes underground about 1 m away from the end of the kitchen waste pipe with a good enough slope for the...
  16. T

    WC connector to soil pipe

    I have a 3.5 inch salt glaze soil stack which I need to connect to a new toilet, I’m struggling to find a connector to fit inside the existing pipe, any ideas
  17. R

    Shower waste connection into soil stack

    Hi Hopefully someone could help advise me. I'm in the middle of replacing our shower with a modern low level tray and was wondering what is the best way to connect to waste pipe/soil stack. As you can see on picture the waste from the sink comes from the left and then the shower pipe joins...
  18. A

    Push fit soil pipes..

    Does it matter if they aren’t fully inserted, as long as they go past sealing ring? I cut a bit of pipe 1-2cm too short and can’t get it out the other side to change!
  19. H

    Soil pipe material identification

    Hi any ideas what this pipe is made from?
  20. F

    Help on connecting channel drainage to soil pipe

    Hi, I'm installing a patio across all of my back garden, and was intending to put channel drainage along the cream wall shown in the picture. I've recently had some pvc soil pipes put in, shown in the picture, so my thought was to connect to these (they already take rainwater as it's an old...

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