soil pipe

I’ve attached a photo. The top square chamber is the existing brick manhole. The lower muddy hole with water is where I excavated down through clay soil. After removing the clay, I hit solid concrete, and my pipe runs underneath it. My questions are: - What is the correct way to create a new...

Hi, I'm looking to move the WC and I can see that the standard pipe bends and Tee branches have built in fall which is very convenient. On further investigation of the required fall, I can see the recommend ratios sitting between 1:40 and 1:80 but the standard fittings angle of 92.5 would give...

Morning all, I'm looking to replace my close-coupled toilet during the bathroom remodel with a wall hung toilet, using the Geberit Duofix element for wall-hung WC, 98 cm. I had a plumber around to quote who reckoned you would not be able to fit it to the existing soil pipe and it would need...

Hello Had a leak in the bathroom, first time in 17 years. Was the waste from bath (40mm pipe with boss type connector thing on it) had popped out. No idea why but I have pushed it back in, however how far should it go into the soil pipe? I had to pull down the ceiling to do this, and now...

Hello, looking for some advice before pursuing any further... we have an toilet on the 1st floor kind of in the middle of the house. Would like to move the toilet which would require extending the soil pipe by 1.7m and to turn the toilet would require 3x90 bends, 1xvertical and 2x horizontal. I...

Hi. We had a blocked toilet on a recently installed new bathroom and I've been out to look at the soil pipe. It had overflowed into the gutter. I could see that the blockage was sitting on a waste pipe that spans almost the entire width of the soil pipe. It was effectively forming a shelf for...

Hi All, I'm currently in the middle of an upstairs bathroom remodel and am considering whether I can move the existing soil waste pipe to the toilet to under the floor boards. The current situation is this: - Vertical stack that pops up, just under the floor - Bathroom shower 40mm feeds into...

Good people of DIYnot, I had been intending to check with building control but as they don't work weekends I've kept carrying on, worst case scenario the lot may have to come out and a plastic chamber put in, but Do you think running a plastic soil pipe into the existing chamber to meet the...

Hi all, Recently moved into a new-ish 2016 property, and the loft smells leading me to think the durgo valve is faulty (this also happened in our old house). Looking at the valve, I can see straight down into the pipe and the smell is, to politely say, strong. It looks different to those I’ve...

so im currently at the planning stage of a diy garage conversion, ive decided to install a suspended floor in order to raise the floor in line with the rest of the house, however there is a very awkwardly placed soil pipe that comes through the the roof of the garage and through the concrete...

Hi DIYnot. Thanks in advance for your thoughts. We moved into a new (to us) place a couple of months ago. The bath was draining slowly. Thought it might have been clogged. Inserted some Buster unblocked (image below). That did improve the flow. However, a couple of days later water...

Hi, I am looking to install a bathroom in my loft, and the easiest rout to connecting the toilet to existing soil pipe is by horizontally through the pitched roof (roof has no soffits). Have searched the internet and not seen it done, is this possible? say by using below but rotating for pipe...

Having a bit of an issue with mice at the minute in a new house, so trying to block all gaps and paths in. I have noticed that there is a sizeable gap around an en suite toilet soil pipe on the first floor, and was wondering what would be some suggestions on how best to block it, with keeping...

Hi, I have a ceramic soil pipe in my garden which can’t be moved deeper or to a different location. The problem is that it’s close to the surface of the soil ( about 4 inches )for about 2m of its length in area of the garden which will get a bit of traffic in the future. I’m trying to find a...

Hi, I hope someone can help me. I had a water blockage in my kitchen sink on Easter and I got 2 different plumbers over for the rescue. While the 2nd one fixed the issue by tracing the issue to the communal pipe, he cut open the pipe in the process. He explained it's better to leave it open...

We’re thinking of having the door to our extension in the blue shaded area - which passes through the existing SVP. How easy is it to rotate the exit pipes for the two toilets to go the other direction to join to a relocated SVP (proposed pipes shown in red). Could this work all be done...

Hello, I’m looking for some advice.. we’ve recently moved into a new property and have noticed that the soil pipe external to the house is leaking every time the toilet is flushed. It’s partially covered by decking but we can see clearly above the part above decking and have tested it so we...

Hi all, Looking for some advice on routing soil stack. Doing the classic terrace renovation of moving the bathroom from downstairs to upstairs in the third bedroom. Current toilet is downstairs in the corner. A plumber has suggested routing the stack up the back wall. Unfortunately in the...

Hi, advice needed please. We live in a 1700’s property which has a combined drainage system where all waste and surface water (guttering etc.) feeds into the same drain. The outside pipe work is carnage and I’m trying to tidy up. We have a soil and a guttering down pipe that run (almost)...

Hi all, Got an old 60s/70s PVC soil stack, the pipe socket (which is partly painted pink in the photo) is Hunter branded and has an old O-ring design quite different to modern stuff. I tried to revive the o-ring with some grease and ran a short length of new grey PVC pipe into it, then have a...