WC fitting - waste in the floor query

[beefster]

I have just removed my bathroom for refit. I have found that the WC waste is through the floor with its centre 9 inches from the wall.
Will any standard wc be able to fit this situation? Do i need to sorce a certain type of WC to suit?

Was buying a new suite tomorrow but want to be sure what i choose will fit.

Ta for the help.

 

[seco services]

any wc will fit with a 90 degree pan connector .
the only issue is you'll have to build a false wall etc behind the cistern or move the waste backwards due to your existing waste being to far foreward for a new wc to fit and be flush against the wall.

 

[TicklyT]

A swan necked pan connector often allows a pan to be moved a couple of inches closer to the wall without changing the soil pipe position, but not usually enough to fit a close coupled WC without building out the wall behind the cistern.

Moving the soil pipe may be relatively easy if it's a plastic pipe dropping through a wooden floor, or it may be a right royal pain in the proverbial if it's a clay pipe through a concrete floor, or there's a joist in exactly the wrong place.

 

[beefster]

Its a clay pipe dropping thru a concrete floor.

I had worked out moving the wall forward was an obvious get around but was looking for a eureka moment from someone in the know... thought there may be a toilet for this sort of installation? Maybe not then?

 

[tamz]

was looking for a eureka moment from someone in the know...

Hire one of these

http://www.builderbill-diy-help.com/image-files/ba-bosch.jpg

then you can shout eureka all day..........no one will hear you

 

[mysteryman]

Try a swan neck or question mark shaped pan connector - it may do the trick.

All WCs in the USA and some in Amsterdam have the outlet in the foot of the pan. Very neat, and it might just be helpful.

 

[beefster]

Thanks mysteryman. Maybe worth a look about then to see if any available over here.

 

[tincup]

Hi

Ideal & Armitage shanks do close coupled toilets with pan exiting at the bottom.
Good plumbing merchants have a blue book alternatively www.thebluebook.co.uk

HTH