Just been asked if I could plumb in a washing machine into an outhouse that backs on to another smaller outhouse which has a WC in already.
In theory not a problem. Cold supply is off a tank on the first floor so obviously the fill will be slower than if connected to the mains, but my friend says she can live with that.
The issue is the waste. I was just envisaging replacing a 90 degree WC pan connector with one with a universal pipe boss (like the McAlpine WC-CON8V) and bring the w/m waste pipe through the adjoining wall and into that connector. However, when I got to look at it I found that the pan outlet itself goes 'up and over' and straight down into the drain connector, i.e. there is no pan connector.
As the loo is pretty old and grotty, I'm tempted to suggest that she buys a new loo while she's at it and then I could use the pan connector as described above.
However, there is another option. In the corner of the WC room is a 3.5 inch copper soil pipe (1950s plumbing I'm guessing) which descends from the bathroom above. I was just wondering if anybody had any suggestions for teeing the w/m waste into this. Is there an (inexpensive - i.e. not Viking Johnson etc!) adaptor for connecting plastic pipe into copper soil pipe?
At the moment, the loo replacement option looks like it might prove to be most straightforward and possibly even the cheapest option, but I wanted to get some other opinions first. (Another thing is that the copper pipe is jammed in the corner of the room so I'd have to excavate the walls a little in order to make a connection.)
Thanks in advance
In theory not a problem. Cold supply is off a tank on the first floor so obviously the fill will be slower than if connected to the mains, but my friend says she can live with that.
The issue is the waste. I was just envisaging replacing a 90 degree WC pan connector with one with a universal pipe boss (like the McAlpine WC-CON8V) and bring the w/m waste pipe through the adjoining wall and into that connector. However, when I got to look at it I found that the pan outlet itself goes 'up and over' and straight down into the drain connector, i.e. there is no pan connector.
As the loo is pretty old and grotty, I'm tempted to suggest that she buys a new loo while she's at it and then I could use the pan connector as described above.
However, there is another option. In the corner of the WC room is a 3.5 inch copper soil pipe (1950s plumbing I'm guessing) which descends from the bathroom above. I was just wondering if anybody had any suggestions for teeing the w/m waste into this. Is there an (inexpensive - i.e. not Viking Johnson etc!) adaptor for connecting plastic pipe into copper soil pipe?
At the moment, the loo replacement option looks like it might prove to be most straightforward and possibly even the cheapest option, but I wanted to get some other opinions first. (Another thing is that the copper pipe is jammed in the corner of the room so I'd have to excavate the walls a little in order to make a connection.)
Thanks in advance