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Success! It's plastic/pvc. Thanks Chris and Nige F. Rob

Sorry, Nige F, not Nice F! Darned autocorrect - it also tried to change it to Nigella!

Well, I set to it again, this time with 2 straight iron bars- like long screwdrivers but thicker and a bit longer - hooked under the thing at the top (fortunately there's a good lip on it, albeit a bit curved). Drew a pencil line and gave it all I had (at 67 years) and gradually, mm by mm it is...

That makes sense, but I can’t understand why it’s so tight - I’ve tried using a bar (like a long screwdriver but with a hook on the end) from below, and tried levering from under the side of the wider top part but it doesn’t move. But okay, i’ll try harder! Many thanks! Rob

The part above floor level is a sort of cosmetic surround that went around the old spigot.

Not a pretty sight I’m afraid Chris, but does this help at all? Cheers Rob

Hello, I’m replacing an old, vertical outlet toilet with a new, horizontal outlet one. I’ll use a swan-neck adaptor to do this because the new toilet outlet spigot is almost exactly vertically above the centre of the outlet pipe in the floor. The old toilet plugged into the 110mm pipe in the...