Close Coupled Toilet!

[moby_wan]

This is probably a really stupid question, but I have just bought a close coupled toilet, and it has no hole for the waste pipe.

Had a look through installation guide, and no mention of it, does it not need one??

 

[moby_wan]

sorry meant no whole for overflow pipe not waste pipe!!

 

[Nickthedentist]

Presume by "waste pipe" you mean the warning pipe aka overflow

If so, don't worry - most new cisterns have a clever but simple mechanism which sends excess water down into the bowl. If you want to check it works, just push the float down into the water to make it overfill, and see what happens

I had the same confusion a couple of years ago and e-mailed Armitage/Ideal Standard. They said: "If the cistern starts to overfill for any reason, the water will be forced back through the syphon diaphragm washer and will trickle back into the toilet bowl. We have had to make this compulsory change due to government legalisation in January 2001, and have encountered no problems"

It certainly beats having to drill a big hole in an extrenal wall.

Nick

 

[moby_wan]

thanks!

 

[Nige F]

sorry meant no hole for overflow pipe not waste pipe!!

We`ve still got `em like that in the stix.......called a bucket