Soil stack question for new bathroom

[mc88]

I'm moving my bathroom from downstairs to upstairs. The current w.c waste goes straight into the ground. I'm on a shared drainage system with no man hole on my property and I also have a nightmare neighbour who has made it problematic in the past when I have had to rod our drains.

I have an existing gully (I've attached a pic, not the best but you get the idea) which is taking waste from my kitchen sink, w.m and bath. Would it be possible that I could add a soil stack to this gully to facilitate the w.c waste for the bathroom upstairs?

 

[ballvalve]

You have a back inlet you won,t be able to run a soil stack into it.

 

[andyplumber]

You won’t be able to connect the soil pipe directly to the trapped gully, you would have to dig and find the drain pipe and connect to it.
The drain will be salt glazed so you will need a salt glazed/clay adaptor to plastic.
What I have done in the past is cut the clay as far back as possible added a adaptor then a junction, with a rest bend connected to the junction for new soil stack and new trapped gully back in its original position.

 

[richard978]

I'm moving my bathroom from downstairs to upstairs. The current w.c waste goes straight into the ground. I'm on a shared drainage system with no man hole on my property and I also have a nightmare neighbour who has made it problematic in the past when I have had to rod our drains.

I have an existing gully (I've attached a pic, not the best but you get the idea) which is taking waste from my kitchen sink, w.m and bath. Would it be possible that I could add a soil stack to this gully to facilitate the w.c waste for the bathroom upstairs?

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I had the same problem. I took up my concrete patio and found a rather large hole in a rest bend. I ended up having to dig up a large amount of clay pipe and gulleys, replace a cast iron soil stack. You never really know what your going to find under ground in a Victorian house.......lots of bends on short runs made clay connection very difficult so ended up having to remove about 8 feet of it.

I decided to fit a chamber because I wanted rod access but it wasn't an easy job because the drains were very shallow. At the same time I connected all my rain water to it as well.....all in all a lot less water getting into the ground around my house.

My advice is to do the same, buy a poly chamber and connect everything to that.

 

[Murdoch]

I'm on a shared drainage system with no man hole on my property and I also have a nightmare neighbour who has made it problematic in the past when I have had to rod our drains.

Time to kill 2 birds with 1 stone, add a connection properly AND then you'll have your own rodding point too.

 

[PhoenixServices]

I decided to fit a chamber because I wanted rod access but it wasn't an easy job because the drains were very shallow. At the same time I connected all my rain water to it as well...all in all a lot less water getting into the ground around my house.

You can’t just drop rainwater into a drain unless it is already doing so. Requires permission etc.

 

[mc88]

Many thanks for everyone's replies.

I have never messed with below ground drainage before, I've fitted my own bathroom before I'm wondering, how easy of a job is this? Is this basic DIY? Currently I have block paving above my below ground drainage, I can find no other possible route of moving my bathroom upstairs, I wouldn't install saniflo either! My property is approximately 70 years old, how far down would you imagine my drainage is?

Am I better of paying someone to do this for me?

Thanks

 

[ShaunCorbs]

If you've never done if before best option is to get a pro in also I would contact building control as they might want to send someone out to inspect any works

Best to have a word with them first tho