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John Boy
Two or three years ago, I fitted a new siphon to the wall mounted toilet cistern in my bathroom. It involved replacing the cistern-to-pan seal. At the same time, I replaced the connector from the back of the pan to the soil pipe. I used a right angle connector with a rubber seal at the pan end. There was no seal at the soil pipe end, which is level with the top of the floorboards. The diameter of the soil pipe is about half an inch more than the connector pipe, leaving about ¼” space all round. The original connector was a similar loose fit at that end.
Today I found water dripping into the room below and discovered that, when the toilet is flushed, some of the water was splashing up out of the soil pipe. My first thought was that there must be a blockage, particularly as we often hear gurgling sounds from the toilet area when the bath is emptied. However, the splashing has stopped now that I’ve repositioned the connector at the soil pipe end, so that there is a gap all the way round. I’m assuming that it must have been accidently moved.
I have 2 questions:
Should there be a complete seal where the connector goes into the soil pipe?
If that is the case, would the lack of one explain the gurgling sounds?
Today I found water dripping into the room below and discovered that, when the toilet is flushed, some of the water was splashing up out of the soil pipe. My first thought was that there must be a blockage, particularly as we often hear gurgling sounds from the toilet area when the bath is emptied. However, the splashing has stopped now that I’ve repositioned the connector at the soil pipe end, so that there is a gap all the way round. I’m assuming that it must have been accidently moved.
I have 2 questions:
Should there be a complete seal where the connector goes into the soil pipe?
If that is the case, would the lack of one explain the gurgling sounds?