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krispy
Hi, this is my first post. My background is as a brickie then general builder, with an ability to do basic plumbing when required.
This one I have never had to deal with before, and of course is in my own house!
The problem is shown in the final picture, where two sections of the pipe (I know there are two because the seam gives it away) join. In the long distant past it had a repair using a red lead soaked bandage?, which has failed and water can be seen dribbling out when the stack is used. There is no evidence of any sort of socket and spigot, though maybe it's under the bandage. The lead itself appears to be in very good condition.
Q.1 What should the joint have been like originally?
Q.2 How can I restore it to a good and durable condition?
The pipe is recessed and access to the joint is not good, though I could improve it by removing some bricks.
The house is an overdwelling (on a steep hillside in the Pennines) and there is an underdwelling below the level of my cellar. The soil stack disappears into the hole in the stone-flagged cellar floor, picks up the underdwelling's outflow, and crosses from one side of the building to the other before connecting to the sewer in the street below. Upwards it goes through our stone-flagged ground floor and continues up to the bathroom and eventually vents on the roof.
All that is just to illustrate the difficulty I would have if I wanted to replace it all with plastic.
Thank you for patiently reading this, any hints would be welcomed.
