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Meady

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Feb 23, 2013
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A mate of mine has just bought a house and wants to fit a toilet/basin downstairs. Only issue is the soil pipe is cast iron which I have never dealt with before.

What’s the best way to connect onto it and what fittings do you think I would need?

Cheers

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Ok, you didn't read this here. Use a 110mm hole saw and cut a hole adjacent to the access door then bond in a butchered fitting.
 
Would cutting the rodding eye off flush with the floor work so that you are just left with the bit of pipe going into the fitting in the ground. Then using a fitting like this

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Cut the tee out and use the joint below the spigot on the tee to replace from there up and as Shaun corbs said use a fernco fitting to get back onto the rising stack
 
What fitting would I need if joining to clay?

Cheers for the help 🙂
 
So just take the cast iron ridding eye out and that fitting I put a picture of above can go straight into the clay?
 
Sounds like a plan to me, and does that fitting need anything to seal it in the clay or is it ok by itself.
 
Spot on, cheers for the help, I’ll let you know how it all goes 🙂
 
Got it all done today, that fitting worked a treat.

Some of the old soil was a pain to get out due to fittings in the floor but a bit of gentle persuasion with a hammer soon sorted that 🙂

Quick question though, the top section of pipe wasn’t cast iron, it was more or a fibery material. What would this have been made out of as it wasn’t cast iron?

Cheers
 

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