Recent content by Joe-Bob

Wimp indeed. I wouldn't mind doing this massive digging project if I were planning on keeping the house long-term... or if I were digging my grave, which would be about as deep as the hole needed for the drain relocation. After digging the grave I could at least have a long rest. On the other...

I know... I'm ashamed of myself.

After some thorough planning I've decided to forgo the digging and just build a shelf to span the gap between wall and cistern. The actual depth of the dig would be over three feet down and would take up 80% of my cloakroom floor. There's no stack outside to connect a sub-stack, so I would still...

Ooooo, a sub-stack sounds like a great idea. The stack wouldn't be an eyesore since the wall backs out into an obscure area at the back of the house. So... here's what I think I have to do (after council notification): for the stack, it sits very close to the outside wall and I have to...

I just removed the old toilet and have discovered that the waste pipe goes a vertical two feet down into the ground before connecting to a horizontal pipe that leads to the outside drain. I need to move the pipe about 9 inches backwards in order for the cistern to sit against the wall. I don't...

Thanks, hammer and chisel are in hand.

Lots of great advice in this forum. I'd like to solicit some for my project. I'm installing a new toilet in the cloakroom. The current waste pipe (coming vertically out of the floor) for the toilet sits nearly a foot away from the wall, so a slipshod wooden structure has been built to fill...