Hi, moved not so long back and have found this in the garage. It looks like an old soil pipe, just wondering if it is? and what the rectangular connector thing is on the top of it?
Hi, moved not so long back and have found this in the garage. It looks like an old soil pipe, just wondering if it is? and what the rectangular connector thing is on the top of it?
Thanks, so is it ok to replace with an air admittance valve and discharge water into it (in theory) if it's still connected?
Can a plastic pipe be cemented in place of the lead or does it need an adaptor?
You'll probably find it enters a manhole up high, so you could discharge water into it - WC waste might not be good, splattering all over the manhole. What did you want to discharge ? You won't need a modern AAV because the original had only a mica flap to stop air coming out. In theory at least.Most got broken
If you do still want/need to connect, you'll need to carefully remove the remnants of the vent, (or cut the collar off the pipe), and fit a McAlpine DC1, which will take you from the salt glazed to 110mm plastic soil pipe.
That's really helpful, thank you both, thorough answers, I appreciate your time.
I will check if it's still connected to the manhole that's close by and take it from there. I was only planning connecting up an old sink in there for infrequent use so it wouldn't be the end of the world if it isn't viable.
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