Hi All
We're just about to embark on putting a new bathroom suite in, and I've spotted a potential issue.
Our soil pipe runs internally down the corner of the house, boxed in obviously. The existing toilet in the bathroom is a P trap with a 90 degree horizontal pipe that goes straight into the adjascent soil pipe all above floorboard level, but its hidden because everything behind the loo (including the remote cistern) is all boxed in.
The new loo is also a P trap but its a close coupled cistern so the back of the loo cant be spaced and boxed in the same way as the old one, which means we need to have the waste pipe go vertically down through the floorboards behind the loo then turn 90 degrees into a new inlet on the stink pipe about a foot lower down than the existing inlet.
Being internal I assumed the soil pipe would be plastic but having pulled some of the boxing out this morning I find that its cast iron, so how the heck do we cut into a cast iron pipe to put a new inlet in, and if thats not possible, what are our options?
cheers
Chris
We're just about to embark on putting a new bathroom suite in, and I've spotted a potential issue.
Our soil pipe runs internally down the corner of the house, boxed in obviously. The existing toilet in the bathroom is a P trap with a 90 degree horizontal pipe that goes straight into the adjascent soil pipe all above floorboard level, but its hidden because everything behind the loo (including the remote cistern) is all boxed in.
The new loo is also a P trap but its a close coupled cistern so the back of the loo cant be spaced and boxed in the same way as the old one, which means we need to have the waste pipe go vertically down through the floorboards behind the loo then turn 90 degrees into a new inlet on the stink pipe about a foot lower down than the existing inlet.
Being internal I assumed the soil pipe would be plastic but having pulled some of the boxing out this morning I find that its cast iron, so how the heck do we cut into a cast iron pipe to put a new inlet in, and if thats not possible, what are our options?
cheers
Chris