Back to wall toilet- flexi pan connector or 2 piece

I’m in the process of fitting a new downstairs toilet. The new one is back to wall, and the pan connection is quite a way from the soil pipe that goes down into the floor.

I can do it one of two ways. A flexi pan connector that will go from the pan all the way into the clay floor drain, or a straight section of solid pipe and a 90 degree connector into the floor.

The flexi will be easy to fit, the two piece option a bit harder. What is the proper way to do it? Is a flexi a bodge, or is it an acceptable option?

thanks in advance.

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Flexi are a bit of a bodge

https://www.screwfix.com/p/mcalpine...or-straight-extension-piece-white-110mm/98788

This plus either a swan neck or 90 bend should do the trick

Nothing really to take a photo of. Just the clay pipe opening in the floor and then pan connection inside the body of the toilet.

I can do it out of a 90 degree bend, a straight section and a straight pan connector, but that means 4 joints in rigid pipe versus 2 joints with a flexi, hence my question about whether flexi's are up to the job in the long term. I'd be using the flexi to achieve the 90 degree bend too.

sircerebus666 said:

Flexi are a bit of a bodge

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Not if fitted properly, never had a problem with them.

sircerebus666 said:

https://www.screwfix.com/p/mcalpine...or-straight-extension-piece-white-110mm/98788

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That won't fit into clay.

Lower said:

whether flexi's are up to the job in the long term

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Yes, get a good quality one such as McAlpine.

For what it's worth, i bought a McAlpine back to wall flexi connector with the jubilee clip to stop the flexi from slipping off the toilet waste spigot.

It leaked from the first moment it was fitted. I could not for the life of me find where from. As it's a back to wall toilet, finding exactly where the leak was coming from proved impossible as it wasn't possible to see underneath or round the back, even when i lifted the toilet on some wood. It could have been from where the flexi connected to the toilet or it could have been from one of the corrugations in the flexi. It was getting on to the bracket that connects the pan to the floor and i couldn't see if it was dripping from above or running around from somewhere else. Either way, it effing leaked.

So i ended up buying a new pan connector, straight section of pipe and 90 degree bend. No leaks.

Maybe i was just unlucky and had a faulty flexi, but in all the faff trying to fix the leak i smashed the cistern lid. Can't buy the lid on its own so its cost me £170 for a new cistern and another £20 for the waste parts.

That's why I hate flexies , I will always see them as a bodge especially as the v grooves collect all the crap and they don't look pretty either

Unlucky that you smashed the lid though