Fitting a toilet advice?

[Hpd]

Hi I’m replacing an upstairs toilet and this is what the pan connector goes into, but had a huge bead of silicone around it to fill the gap. What do the pros usually do here?

 

[CBW]

Hard to tell, but I would probably remove that fitting and replace with a better fitting one.

 

[Madrab]

Yep, that looks like some kind of pan connector extension with black fins that's been fitted into a socket elbow, does that whole thing pull out of the pipe that's in the floor that's heading right?

 

[Hpd]

Yeah the pan connector pulls out of the elbow. It does seem to fit well before the elbow widens to 125mm. Is there a much wider pan connector? Or suggest remove the entire elbow from the soil pipe?

 

[Madrab]

You say the pipe is 125mm, not standard 110mm (4") soil pipe? 125mm is a very unusual size. Take the extension out of the elbow and post a pic, is that opening (socket?) not 110mm? If so then that elbow socket would usually just take a small piece of pipe then a normal swan neck pan connector would be used.

 

[Hpd]

Thanks for the info, it is 125mm yeah which I thought was odd… and now you’ve explained how it’s normally done it definitely isn’t standard!

I had to crack on with the job and decided the pan connector fitted snug into the socket and has worked well for 30+ years so just replaced it with a new one and all works great.

Still unsure why it’s that size socket/elbow but the toilet hides it anyway (which it didn’t before) so happy days

Thanks again all