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givingitago
Hi all,
Another pan connector question, I'm afraid, but I've not seen this particular problem in the forums - apologies if I have missed something.
I'm fitting a new close-coupled toilet in place of an old, doing this for the first time and would be grateful for advice with a problem I have reaching the old soil pipe from the new pan outlet -
- The outer rim of my slightly off-vertical 4" plastic soil pipe comes through the floor 5cm from the wall that the toilet will back onto.
- The horizontal spigot of my shiny new toilet will be 19.5cm from the the rear of the toilet where it backs against the wall.
- The pan connector (Wickes) that I bought is approx 14.5cm 'deep' from front of spigot socket to rear of the elbow. Great, 14.5+5 = 19.5.
- But of course the 90 degree pan connector looks like it will slide 4cm over the spigot when pushed fully on.
- So actually my pan connector falls 4cm short of where it needs to reach to enter the soil pipe..?
Moving the soil pipe is not an option due to the lovely tiled floor, and all the 90 degree connectors I've seen seem to be about the same size, so how do I bridge this gap (other than flushing really hard ) ?
Reading other posts it looks like a short straight connector from the pan going into a Multikwik MKL1 multilink going into the 90 degree connector might be an option? Would this be acceptable? Or is 4cm too small a gap to bridge like this?
If that won't work, what other options might I have? Am i right in thinking the spigot-soil pipe distance in this case would be too small for a flexible connector? Am I missing something really obvious?!
Thanks in advance!
David.
Another pan connector question, I'm afraid, but I've not seen this particular problem in the forums - apologies if I have missed something.
I'm fitting a new close-coupled toilet in place of an old, doing this for the first time and would be grateful for advice with a problem I have reaching the old soil pipe from the new pan outlet -
- The outer rim of my slightly off-vertical 4" plastic soil pipe comes through the floor 5cm from the wall that the toilet will back onto.
- The horizontal spigot of my shiny new toilet will be 19.5cm from the the rear of the toilet where it backs against the wall.
- The pan connector (Wickes) that I bought is approx 14.5cm 'deep' from front of spigot socket to rear of the elbow. Great, 14.5+5 = 19.5.
- But of course the 90 degree pan connector looks like it will slide 4cm over the spigot when pushed fully on.
- So actually my pan connector falls 4cm short of where it needs to reach to enter the soil pipe..?
Moving the soil pipe is not an option due to the lovely tiled floor, and all the 90 degree connectors I've seen seem to be about the same size, so how do I bridge this gap (other than flushing really hard ) ?
Reading other posts it looks like a short straight connector from the pan going into a Multikwik MKL1 multilink going into the 90 degree connector might be an option? Would this be acceptable? Or is 4cm too small a gap to bridge like this?
If that won't work, what other options might I have? Am i right in thinking the spigot-soil pipe distance in this case would be too small for a flexible connector? Am I missing something really obvious?!
Thanks in advance!
David.