Who puts in drains : plumber or builder ?

[tonyb61]

My son has just moved into a victorian terraced house with the bathroom on the ground floor at the rear. He wants to move it into the room above, and move the kitchen into the old bathroom. The current bathroom has a WC with a pan going into the concrete floor, and there is a gully outside for sink waste, but no soil pipe outside at all.

He wants to have the drains updated including a soil stack ready for when the bathroom upstairs is done.

My question is who should he talk to to carry that sort of drainage work ? A builder or a plumber ?
Thanks

 

[plumben]

I'm a plumber and we do drains, everything from digging to laying the concrete again,
So its 50/50 really, id give a few local plumbers a call or post in the I'm looking for a plumber part of this forum

 

[jtsplumbing]

could be any depends if you want new access chamber and outside stack, or do you intend putting new soil pipe inside.

 

[SimonG]

Generally I dont touch underground. Its a young mans game. Last one though the cust had a mini digger and dug it all out. I laid the pipe, it was inspected and he back filled and re concreted.

 

[lame plumber]

labourer does digging and a plumber can lay the drains, building inspector checks the trench etc and then your away

 

[AWheating]

normally done by a drainage company or by a ground worker/ general builder. soil stack by plumber.

It all depends what else your having done, if you having building works then ask the builder to position the drain and your plumber to fit the stack and waste system.

 

[lupieloo]

Depends which company you use really. I would do both but then others wouldn't touch it.

 

[PriestyUK]

A plumber will think ahead and think from a plumbing point of view of what will be best, a builder will bang it but not all are considerate for the plumber who will now have to run off of the new drain