Toilet Waste pipe

[leslie50]

Hi
can anybody explain what this is all about, first time I have seen it, and can I remove it.

 

[LegionellaSlave]

Sorry, remove what? :smartass2:

 

[mikimac]

wow, that stack looks like it should be in the Tate gallery :beatnik:

 

[AndyMack]

to me looks like its a vent pipe so i don't see y u can't remove it i looks a right mess

 

[tamz]

One pipe fully vented system

 

[WaterTight]

the waste set up shown in the second picture is so pleasingly symmetrical i'd feel the need to install a dummy 4th overflow pipe just to perfect it

 

[leslie50]

I want to be able to get the toilet back to the wall, but it means I would have to cut the soil pipe back which would mean removing the vent is this ok

 

[leslie50]

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[leslie50]

Sorry do you feel that the vent ca be removed,

 

[tamz]

Just remove it.

 

[WaterTight]

why is it there if it's not needed though

 

[tamz]

It is from a time gone by when men were men and traps were shallower.

 

[stevetheplumber]

from a time when plumbing was a trade not a hobby

 

[Hardy1]

this is a ventilated branch system stack, designed to be put in commercial properties, aint seen one on a domestic dwelling, rip it our and put a single soil stack in, 2 man job taking out though, good luck.