Moving utility room soil pipe (with photo)

[Kriggi]

We're redoing our utility room to have a run across the wall of a washing machine on the left, tumble dryer in the middle and cupboard with sink above on the right. Unfortunately the existing soil pipe comes out of the floor exactly where we want to position the tumble dryer.

The photo below shows the existing soil pipe, position of the tumble dryer and proposed new position of the soil pipe which is 40cm to the right of its current position.

The logical thing to do would be to position the sink in the middle but due to other restraints this isn't possible so we need to move the soil pipe.

How would people propose this is done?

I'm assuming we'll need to dig up the floor, fit a 90 degree bend on the existing soil pipe, run a horizontal 110mm soil pipe with another 90 degree bend upwards to the new position and concrete this all in. Is this right, or are there easier options?

Many thanks in advance.

Chris.

Utility room soil pipe

• Kriggi
• 15 Aug 2011
• 1

 

[gasservice85]

expose the area around where the pipe comes out of the floor and back to the wall and reduce to 1 1/2 inch pipe as low as possible (in the floor back to the wall up and across at low level into the cupboard most appliances are designed to have space for pipes to run behind them

 

[Kriggi]

Thanks for the reply. Would you think it to be okay to sink the end of the soil branch into the floor with a 1 1/2 reducer and run that in the floor to where we need it to be and cement the whole lot in? (We'd solvent weld all the joints and sleeve the 1 1/2 pipe).

 

[gasservice85]

Yes that should be fine also make sure you put in a tee and roding eye somewhere accessible maybe under kicker so any blockages can be cleaned out easily

 

[Kriggi]

Many thanks Gasservice85.