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Ian - I'd never thought of using one of those bandseals connectors inside a pipe - Im surprised they fit so well & create a decent seal that way! Good to know & definitely an option we will look at. I guess there will be a couple of ridges inside, but hopefully nothing to cause too much of a...

Hugh - thank you so much for this. Do you think that the Hepseal Ad S/s Adaptor 150mm Sa2/2 : (https://www.mytub.co.uk/hepseal-ad-s-s-adaptor-150mm-sa2-2-product-574238) would need to be mortared in or would the rubber o-ring be sufficient?

Ok, so Wessex Water say this is not their responsibility and are unable to advise for legal reasons. They are suggesting I contact a private drainage firm since they think it is my drainage that is a problem (although it seems that the clay pipe is part of the shared sewer wall & we cannot...

The lean-to with the outside toilet before we dismantled it all... note the truly 'outside' toilet! :eek:

So clearly there was a miscommunication... Wessex Water sent round a guy from dynorod, who was quite surprised & confused by the situation! Sawdust in a bucket it is for tonight then! :ROFLMAO:

Just an update - we are now awaiting a visit from Wessex Water who said they would send someone round in 4 hours (they are very busy, so we are sat here twiddling our thumbs 5 hrs later with no foul drainage!)

A quick sketch model of the original drainage (some known, some deduced/guessed). The yellow section was a clay pipe from the outside toilet in the 'lean-to' and we traced back from this unused section. The pink bit was where the pipe changed to a 6" clay pipe (it was literally slotted inside...

Hi Nige, thanks for taking the time to respond. There was never any manhole at all, it is a victorian terrace built in 1890 and pretty much nothing has ever been done to it, so no modernising of the underground pipework & no manhole. We have taken down the old outside toilet on the back 'leg'...

The brick wall is the side of the shared sewer, there is a gap in the mortar joint & the pipe at the bottom of the photo is actually part of the Buchan trap /p-trap to hence is not a straight section of pipe that we can create a spigot out of.

After having discovered a broken 'buchan trap' that has been leaking for goodness how long (beginning to dig created an effectively open sewer / cesspit in our garden!) we have been dithering about design but have today decided to go ahead, disconnect all our foul water, remove the broken trap &...