connecting plastic soil pipe to cast iron

[mulls]

Hi,
I need to move a wc about 800 mm to one side to make room for a shower cubicle in a corner. The existing cast iron soil pipe exits through the floor and goes through a cast iron 90 deg bend into a straight length of cast iron pipe off at right angles to the wc. I would like to remove the existing 90 degree bend and extend the remaining cast iron pipe with a plastic pipe to the new wc location - using a further plastic 90 degree bend to complete the job.

My questions are: How do I separate the existing cast iron joint and then how can I fit the new plastic soil pipe to the cast iron straight length?

Are there any reasons why I shouldn't do this?

Any help and advise very welcome. Thanks.

 

[fitz1]

Youll need to chip away at the cast joint to free it from the length. Then go to draincenter(plumbceter) for a straight cast to plastic adaptor.

 

[mulls]

Thats great -thanks. I'll get the hammer and chisel out and get down the plumbers merchant.

 

[doitall]

Youll need to chip away at the cast joint to free it from the length.

Bet you wouldn't get it out without breaking the socket especially if I had lead caulked it.

 

[fitz1]

Can u not melt the lead?

 

[doitall]

Can u not melt the lead?

only with a welding torch a stick of dynamite will shift it as well

should have said where ya gona melt it to, the socket is first caulked with tarred twine, the lead is only decorative

 

[traineegasman]

Bet you can chip away with hammer & chisel, done loads, if it`s cast iron mate, it will not be jointed with anything special unless it`s one of those `special ` houses that DIA seems to work on, if it`s been built in the last 90 odd years you can expect it to be straightforward. Have a look, if you can`t see anything special..... TW*t it. OOHH LEAD CAULK EH?..THEM WUR THE DAYS LAD!!........... DON`T KNOW YOU`RE BORN.. WHEN I WERE A LAD, HAT TO GET UP 10 HOURS BEFORE YOU WENT TO SLEEP, EAT HOT GRAVEL FOR BREAKFAST... etc, etc,...

 

[doitall]

Bet you can chip away with hammer & chisel, done loads, if it`s cast iron mate, it will not be jointed with anything special unless it`s one of those `special ` houses that DIA seems to work on, if it`s been built in the last 90 odd years you can expect it to be straightforward. Have a look, if you can`t see anything special..... TW*t it.

Wrong again trainee.

Although we use lead wool nowadays, anything pre 1980 will be poured lead using a squirrels tail and chaulking irons.

 

[traineegasman]

We don`t use lead wool nowadays, We use PLASTIC! I stand by my original post

 

[doitall]

We don`t use lead wool nowadays, We use PLASTIC! I stand by my original post

Lower quality jobs use plastic.

Class jobs use cast iron

Conservation jobs use as existing

 

[traineegasman]

Touche, Sir, I`m man enough to know when I am outclassed.. You win... can I still be a pain in the arse though... just for a little while?? If I go, this site will be filled with Legendary Giants such as yourself..... No chance for us pitiful lost souls who clamber for the limelight..... Nahhhh, *******s to that Grandad! You don`t know what you`re talkin` about!.. Gimme plastic anytime!!!!

 

[doitall]

You will soon learn trainee.

The client in the pic is spending £3 million quid, the building is subject to a conservation order.

Dare I say it, you live in a different world.

 

[traineegasman]

DIA, You keep biting m8, I`m fishing, most of your mates have had the sense to not give me the benefit of replying to my posts, they`re still reading `cos every time I post I can see how many views it generates. Whatever Baby, gonna keep postin` gonna be interestin` & I know.............you`re all..... gonna be WATCHING THE TRAINEE GAS DUDE......!!!!! LATERS... STALE ONES!!!!!!!!!

 

[doitall]

DIA, You keep biting m8, I`m fishing, most of your mates have had the sense to not give me the benefit of replying to my posts, they`re still reading `cos every time I post I can see how many views it generates. Whatever Baby, gonna keep postin` gonna be interestin` & I know.............you`re all..... gonna be WATCHING THE TRAINEE GAS DUDE......!!!!! LATERS... STALE ONES!!!!!!!!!

I don't have a problem with that trainee, as I said before you will learn as much or as little as you like, just don't dismiss the old gits, like it not they're a minefield of knowledged

 

[traineegasman]

I`ve only just found your last post DIA, aren`t you a sweetie. Between you & I m8, I`m fully aware of what I`m up to & the hostility it generates from SOME. Everyone`s had a sense of humour bypass on this site.. JUST HAVIN` A LARRRFFF!. Love you & ALL THE GUYS. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Also I do have the utmost respect for you & all that you stand for really, just let your hair down , POP, hang with the DUDES! & don`t believe everything I post is everything I believe, thought you would be clever enough to see through that DAD! XXXXXXXXXXX