Hi All,
I'm refitting my bathroom and taking the opportunity to change things about a bit. What this has meant is the WC has now moved diagonally from one corner of the room to the other.
At present the soil pipe goes straight out through the outside wall, turns left and runs along the outside of the bathroom wall into the soil stack.
In its new position it will run out of the bathroom at the other end of the room. So the centre point of the exiting pipe will 6.5 Inches from the centre line of the soil stack (if my calculations are correct).
My plan was to fit a push fit elbow to the exiting pipe and then couple this to a new swept joint in the soil stack - or ideally just rotate the existing one through 180 degrees and connect to this (or would it weaken the rubber seals to rotate it and reuse it).
My question is, will the exit point of the new pipe be too close to the stack to actually be able to connect into it? Therefore should I cut the soil stack at a more workable point (nearer the ground) and crank it over to gain some more room? (if I did crank it I would probably replace everything upwards of this as I don’t really want to be working with a dirty soil pipe any more than I have to!)
Also previously I have found it very hard to put the push fit soil pipe connections together, even after filing a taper and using lubricant. Is there a knack to this? Especially as I could be potentially doing some of this up a ladder!
Thanks in advance guys!
I'm refitting my bathroom and taking the opportunity to change things about a bit. What this has meant is the WC has now moved diagonally from one corner of the room to the other.
At present the soil pipe goes straight out through the outside wall, turns left and runs along the outside of the bathroom wall into the soil stack.
In its new position it will run out of the bathroom at the other end of the room. So the centre point of the exiting pipe will 6.5 Inches from the centre line of the soil stack (if my calculations are correct).
My plan was to fit a push fit elbow to the exiting pipe and then couple this to a new swept joint in the soil stack - or ideally just rotate the existing one through 180 degrees and connect to this (or would it weaken the rubber seals to rotate it and reuse it).
My question is, will the exit point of the new pipe be too close to the stack to actually be able to connect into it? Therefore should I cut the soil stack at a more workable point (nearer the ground) and crank it over to gain some more room? (if I did crank it I would probably replace everything upwards of this as I don’t really want to be working with a dirty soil pipe any more than I have to!)
Also previously I have found it very hard to put the push fit soil pipe connections together, even after filing a taper and using lubricant. Is there a knack to this? Especially as I could be potentially doing some of this up a ladder!
Thanks in advance guys!