Concertina toilet waste pipe disintegrated within days of fitting and not even in use?!

[Sallyoo1]

Hello All

Apologies for making my first thread a cry for help but this is perplexing!

New bathroom is being installed. This morning, about 10 days since the concertina style waste pipe was fitted, the plumber let water in to the new toilet cistern and flushed it. I realised it was leaking through the ceiling, he pulled out pan and discovered this

What has happened???

Inferior parts?

Has anyone experienced anything like this before?

And, what can I ask the plumber to do that will avoid this happening a second time?

Your help/advice/thoughts would be much appreciated. Thanks

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Pics not showing up yet ??

 

[mache]

No pic showing up yet... but could it be rodent damage you have experienced ???

 

[Sallyoo1]

is this working?

 

[Sallyoo1]

or hopefully this?

 

[Sallyoo1]

Rodent damage a possibility. To my knowledge there are none in the house but maybe a rat or mouse has travelled up through the pipe and done this?

 

[rpm]

Looks like it has been bitten rather than clean breaks, ask him to use rigid pipe not a flexi now.

 

[Sallyoo1]

OK - thank you

 

[SimonG]

Mice or rats.

 

[Chuck]

or hopefully this?

Not my area of expertise but that looks more like 100mm flexible air duct for an extractor fan or tumble dryer than a toilet waste connector to me.

 

[Stigster]

Not my area of expertise but that looks more like 100mm flexible air duct for an extractor fan or tumble dryer than a toilet waste connector to me.

It does look like that with it being so thin walled. Every flexi pan connector I've seen is made of much thicker plastic than that and don't have wire support like the one in the picture.

 

[rpm]

Not my area of expertise but that looks more like 100mm flexible air duct for an extractor fan or tumble dryer than a toilet waste connector to me.

It does look like that with it being so thin walled. Every flexi pan connector I've seen is made of much thicker plastic than that and don't have wire support like the one in the picture.

Thinking it`s fully extended in the photo and the pan connecter end doesn`t look like an air ducting connection which is a smaller size is it not?

 

[snowhead]

That looks chewed to me.
If you imagine the gaps closed the edges don't look like they'll match up as though there is material missing.

It either needs a rodent barrier;
McAlpine Rodent Barrier

or better still NOT using a flexi

 

[townfanjon]

Roland has been at that by the looks of it,

"Yer , rat - fans "

Flexible pan connectors, especially the foreign imports are useless .

 

[bright spark]

I agree townfanjon, a dirty rat has been about

 

[rpm]

Looks like it has been bitten rather than clean breaks, ask him to use rigid pipe not a flexi now.

I agree townfanjon, a dirty rat has been about

Ahem

 

[Sallyoo1]

Thanks everyone. I agree it looks like rodents. Just a couple of months ago a neighbour living in a 3rd floor flat reported a leak from her loo and was told by the plumber that rodents had eaten a hole through the toilet waste pipe - not Flexi. So it seems the rats round our way are determined, destructive and won't let much stand in their way. Rodent barrier needed. Your advice has been much appreciated

 

[Michael1960]

I bet its not a Mc Alpine !!!