joining soil pipe old to new

[desrob]

whats the best solution regarding old metal (iron) soil pipe, when renewing sections,is there any thing suitable out there to join these sections together,i've came across them were the've been botched up and leak.

 

[Guest123]

whats the best solution regarding old metal (iron) soil pipe, when renewing sections,is there any thing suitable out there to join these sections together,i've came across them were the've been botched up and leak.

Timesaver couplings are neat, tidy and a good seal or traditional cast with pipe and socket, run the joints with a caulking rope called PC4AF wetted with water. You can buy caulking tools to help you get the twisted rope into the socket, or flatten about 100mm on one end of a piece of copper and use the tube end as a handle and the flattened end to caulk the PC4AF into the joint. Keep the rope twisted and hold it tight as you knock it in.
Once all the rope is in the joint, wet it thoroughly and once dry it sets like Asbestos cement although it doesn't contain any asbestos and is both solid and watertight.

Please don't use molten lead unless you know what you're doing.

You can now buy cast iron with a ring seal socket too, but it's very expensive.

 

[leelister6]

Did one a couple of weeks ago. Cut the cast flush with the ground and used a fitting that looks a lot like a standard pan connecter which fitted into the cast and left a pushfit socket for renewing the soil pipe in plastic. Not sure what its called or where the bloke I was working for got it from (Maybe Jewsons or Graham) but it did a cracking job

 

[Guest123]

Did one a couple of weeks ago. Cut the cast flush with the ground and used a fitting that looks a lot like a standard pan connecter which fitted into the cast and left a pushfit socket for renewing the soil pipe in plastic. Not sure what its called or where the bloke I was working for got it from (Maybe Jewsons or Graham) but it did a cracking job

B&Q sell them. Multi-connectors they're called but only available for 110mm soil not 82mm. First length of pipe going from drain was traditionally cast iron as it was harder to break it than plastic.

 

[stevetheplumber]

ferncoo rubber couplings

 

[desrob]

Did one a couple of weeks ago. Cut the cast flush with the ground and used a fitting that looks a lot like a standard pan connecter which fitted into the cast and left a pushfit socket for renewing the soil pipe in plastic. Not sure what its called or where the bloke I was working for got it from (Maybe Jewsons or Graham) but it did a cracking job

this sounds good more info required, if you can.