Best quality Soil Pipe?

[ceekay742]

Anyone had any past probs with soil pipe colour fading? I have at present a brown outside soil pipe that has faded over the space of 3 years it is almost white in places where the sun hits it most. I now need to change it for a black soil stack but was wondering is one make better than another for fading? If I remember correctly the old brown stack was quite expensive as I think it was manufactured by Osma?

 

[snowhead]

Paint it black.
Don't use undercoat, just gloss direct on the pipe.

Lightly sand it to get any glaze off.

 

[townfanjon]

Osma, hunter polypipe etc all good, I think hepworth will do one, keep off the screwfix cheap ones, sorry i wont mention the name (they might sue me lol )
However depending on where the pipe is in relation to strong sun light all are bound to fade, but some worse than others.
As for painting, I would be tempted to paint it as snowhead says give it a light sand, but I would definitely prime it with an appropriate plastic primer, if you dont, it will start to peel off, ok in quite a few years but it will .......

 

[Meady]

It's no wonder it's faded badly if its brown soil pipe, that's designed to go under ground so has nothing in the pipe to help protect it from the sunlight.

 

[Ray Stafford]

It's no wonder it's faded badly if its brown soil pipe, that's designed to go under ground so has nothing in the pipe to help protect it from the sunlight.

There is proper brown soil - a completely different product from the orangy-brown underground stuff.