HELP ON TOILET LEAKING AT BOTTOM

[jusandjan]

Hi, can anyone offer me advice.

We are currently having my bathroom upgraded, and after the guy who has fitted our toilet, there is water coming from around the bottom on the toilet, looks like it’s from the waste pipe connecting to the toilet. My fitter guy has said if the leak persists, he will use PLUMBERS MAIT, but I’ve searched on line if see if A. is this stuff is any goof & B. is this a permanent or just temporary fix.

I no nothing about plumbing what so ever. So looking for some basic advice.

 

[Burnerman]

Ask your fitter to use a new 'toilet pan connector' and all will be sorted.
John

 

[Tizer]

Its not exactly something you would want on a new installation

If its leaking now, it will persist so you would be better off replacing the pan connector (if thats possible).

It also depends what you contracted him to do.

 

[jusandjan]

thanks guys i will suggest that

 

[landyandy]

What could be the problem here is that the pan connector has a number of rings which make the seal in the soil pipe. If, once the pan connector is pushed into a position, if it is then pulled back out a bit the rings can distort inside the soil pipe losing the seal.
You could try pulling the pan connector fully out and then pushing back in again. Hope you can follow that lot.

Plumbers mate is a bodge imho.

Andy.

 

[Nige F]

well said landy - there must be hundreds of multikwiks that have the seals wrong - I`ve seen a few

 

[Charnwood]

Multikwik make 2 popular straight pan conns, the Number 1 and the Number 2. Everyone goes for the number 1 which is designed for old P and S trap pans, not HO Europans, which have a slightly smaller outlet.

If a No 1 is fitted to a Europan, it only takes a small mis-alignment to potentially cause a leak.