Can anyone help me please? Having a bit of a nightmare fitting a new WC.
I have added a picture of an old toilet waste that I need to connect into. It is clay and concreted into the floor. It did used to have a collar on it but it cracked and came off when the old toilet was removed.
A new plywood suspended floor has been added over the top and there is a distance of roughly 8" between the top of the old clay pipe and the new plywood floor.
The new toilet position is unfortunately offset by about 8" to one side.
I also need to get the waste from a wash basin into it somehow as well.
I suppose my main question is this - because there is a new floor do I need a new 'termination' or flange on the new floor level. If so does it have to be brown drainage pipe?
I can just about connect to it using a swan neck pan connector into a flexible extension into an offset pan connector pushed straight into the clay but this would involve the flexible extension just passing loose through a hole in the plywood - it just doesn't seem like it will be right?
My gut tells me that to do it properly I would need to dig up around the clay and use a clay to plastic connector and then terminate the drainage on the new floor level and then go into this with a pan connector.
If this is right then would I need to involve building control?
I am not a professional plumber just a competent DIY'er - do I need to call in the Pro's!
I have added a picture of an old toilet waste that I need to connect into. It is clay and concreted into the floor. It did used to have a collar on it but it cracked and came off when the old toilet was removed.
A new plywood suspended floor has been added over the top and there is a distance of roughly 8" between the top of the old clay pipe and the new plywood floor.
The new toilet position is unfortunately offset by about 8" to one side.
I also need to get the waste from a wash basin into it somehow as well.
I suppose my main question is this - because there is a new floor do I need a new 'termination' or flange on the new floor level. If so does it have to be brown drainage pipe?
I can just about connect to it using a swan neck pan connector into a flexible extension into an offset pan connector pushed straight into the clay but this would involve the flexible extension just passing loose through a hole in the plywood - it just doesn't seem like it will be right?
My gut tells me that to do it properly I would need to dig up around the clay and use a clay to plastic connector and then terminate the drainage on the new floor level and then go into this with a pan connector.
If this is right then would I need to involve building control?
I am not a professional plumber just a competent DIY'er - do I need to call in the Pro's!