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Soil pipe problem
Just digging out side pathway and discovered big gap to waste drain !!! The soil and vent above ground are new . Can anyone advise please what extension soil / stack pipe I need- Tryinghard
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Horizontal Soil Pipe connections
I am refurbishing a bathroom and adjoining en-suite which back onto each other and are on the first floor of the house. Both have a toilet, washbasin and shower. The showers are electric and the flow rates are not excessive. There is a straight horizontal soil pipe (with appropriate slope 1:40)...- Old Miller
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Can I add an overflow (i.e. secondary) rainwater drain in an internal lightwell that feeds into a bathroom's soil pipe?
I would appreciate some advice. I have a flat on the 3rd floor of a converted house, which has a lightwell in the middle of the flat. The bottom of the lightwell reaches the 3rd floor (my flat’s floor level) and has a roof lantern for the flat on the 2nd floor. I plan to build a small bathroom... -
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Soil pipe from upstairs bathroom into downstairs
hi, new to the forum today, i had a bathroom installed a couple of years ago upstairs which was a bedroom above what was a downstairs bathroom in a dorma bungalow, the plumber plumbed in the soil pipes from the toilet and shower etc into the existing low level system doenstairs and used a swan...- mattcfc2021
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Soil pipe thru steel beam for loft?
Good morning. Working on a loft conversion and need to figure out how to route water from the shower and toilet. Someone has recommended that we can drill holes in the steel beams in the loft floor and route the shower and toilet waste through these holes. Has anyone done that before? Will... -
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Leaking pastic soil pipe stack cover
Installed when the house was built in the 70's. Does anyone know where can I get a replacement cover ? (or gasket) ? It's not the same shape as ones I've seen online with 4 fixing screws, it has a centre bolt to remove the cover. Cheers -
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Advice on soil pipe for new toilet
Hello, I would be interested in getting some feedback on connecting a new second toilet (shown in yello below) with the soil pipe where my existing toilet connects to (shown in brown line). If I manage to run the new toilet's soil pipe through the unused dumbwaiter shaft, then the distance to... -
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Bad smell from around internal soil pipe
Hi I moved house about 9 months ago. Around 3 months after moving in I started to notice an intermittent sewage smell in the bathroom upstairs. For the last few months I have been checking all traps and trying to pinpoint the smell. There is no issue with the traps, I believe the smell is...- skipfeeney
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Soil pipe inside or outside the property
Hi, Need some advice on the soil pipe inside or outside, I have searched on google and read couple of forums but don't find the right or wrong answer of soil pipe being inside or outside the property. We are adding two rooms on the side of the house and one loft into dormer conversion. Please... -
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. -
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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- Deleted member 117754
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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...- OutOfMyDepth!
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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... -
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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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... -
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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... -
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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...- philgina101
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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...- arthurjackson
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