Pan connector leaking

[Fallout]

If a toilet pan connector is leaking between the pan connector and toilet spigot. Would plumbers mate be an option to seal it? Or is this too much off a bodge?

 

[terryplumb]

Best to fit a new pan connector.

 

[Elkato531]

Terry is right. I've seen pan connectors bodged up with loads of different sealants. They end up as a sticky ugly mess and it invariably doesn't work anyway.

 

[Fallout]

Thanks was just seeing if I could get away without removing the toilet, with it being quiet old. Guess this isn't the case though.

 

[muggles]

Plumbers Mait has literally no uses for anything. I've owned a tub of it for five years and haven't once found the need for it. A leaking pan connector needs to be replaced, anything else is a temporary bodge

 

[CJRatch]

I once sealed a toilet with plumbers mait successfully.

For the life of me I couldn't find a pan connector seal to fit my old cast iron soil pipe diameter. I removed the rubber seal and wrapped a good sausage of mait around the plastic insert and shoved it into the soil pipe. Packed it out nice and tight with more mait and it never leaked once.

I eventually replaced the old stack with plastic.

A bodge yes but a successful bodge it was.

 

[Elkato531]

Maybe, but you were sealing the join between the pan connector and the soil pipe. This is a much easier joint to seal and was often done with mortar. The joint between the pan spigot and the pan connector is much more difficult.

 

[Nige F]

I have successfully bodged with a neat bead of Fernox L S X

 

[Fallout]

I have successfully bodged with a neat bead of Fernox L S X

Did you have to wait to set before testing?

 

[HERTS P&D]

You could try CT1

https://www.sealantsonline.co.uk/Pr...MIs8zpuPP84wIVSLDtCh2RHgmLEAAYASAAEgJzWvD_BwE

Andy

 

[Nige F]

Did you have to wait to set before testing?

No, it says to spray with water to speed curing - so i did . Then assuming the leak would have a similar effect inside, I just left it for a half hour and flushed.