Not ANOTHER toilet question!

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Hope someone can help me with this issue, have scoured previous posts to try and find help, but wasn't able to find anything that directly answered my problem-possibly because it's so simple!?

I bought a new CC toilet last year which still hasn't been fitted, in fact I only recently offerred it up to the pipe, only to discover that the design of said toilet along the side towards the rear means that it fouls the pipe and will not sit flush to the wall (excuse the pun!)

Therefore it seems I have 3 choices (since I can't really take the toilet back a year later)

1. Get into the internal soil stack so as to re position the pipe, possibly feeding up through the floor, though this may not be possible given joist location and also likely to be pricey?

2. Allow the toilet to sit away from the wall slightly (about 1-2 inches)-undesireable....

3. Perhaps cut the pipe shorter and then have an alternate means of routing the pipe-flexible pipe? would this work? are they reliable?

For additional info the waste pipe is about 100mm diameter, which happens to be exactly the same as the gap any pipe would have to get between the toilet and the wall, the pipe sits just over an inch away from the wall and exits horizontally from the soil stack towards the toilet.

FYI the toilet is a Villeroy&Boch Subway, which for abvious resons I can't really afford to ditch and just buy another, £600 down the drain aint too pallatable!

Hope someone has a suggestion that is simple and inexpensive!
 
Thank you kindly.

So this choice won't give problems having the odd kink and bend during its, quite short, journey to connect to the toilet? Just want to be absolutly sure, given that whilst looking at previous threads I seem to recall that the fewer bends the better, and that the flexible ones are prone leaks
 
Mine is routed in the shape of a question mark over a short space and have no problems with it at all. Buy it from a plumbers merchant as i had to take one from B&Q back as it leaked and the one from Wickes was poor quality.
 

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