Waste pipe bonding

[DIYspanner]

Will UHU Epxoy Adhesive (2-K-Quick) glue and bond waste pipe joints?

 

[lostinthelight]

Joints in waste pipes are solvent welded not glued, get the correct stuff and save yourself a future full of grief, pipes and fittings have to be compatible as well

 

[winston1]

Evostick also works though not the right stuff.

 

[DIYspanner]

Is this the right stuff?

 

[Madrab]

Yup, that's the stuff, as long as the pipe is ABS solvent weld. If it's push fit PVC/PP then it'll need a different approach

 

[DIYspanner]

This is the job. A short piece of 43mm waste pipe into a shower drain adapter coupler.

 

[Hugh Jaleak]

Difficult to tell exactly from that picture, should be something on the shower trap, moulded into the plastic, giving details. Traps are often Polypropylene, so not suitable for solvent welding.

 

[DIYspanner]

The black pipe which has been in situ since '92, when the old shower was installed by the house builder, is 43m and I presume its standard waste pipe that was being used at the time.

The white pipe is the adapter, supplied by Mira to install their tray, which they say should be solvent welded.

 

[DIYspanner]

The job's a bit more involved now. There's not enough room to fix the shower waste trap so I'm going modify the pipe starting at the sub floor point. Cut off the 90 from the pipe sub floor, fit a new 90, up, another 90 then a T to accommodate the pipe of the waste trap. I'll do with solvent weld joints. The long pipe can swivel to suit because its on a compression fitting from the down pipe off the h/w tank.

 

[Hugh Jaleak]

Fair comment. Always wise to solvent weld anything that'll be difficult to get to, but I's try and use swept bends in preference to the knuckle 90's, easier to get a 'Snake' round in future if you have problems with slow draining.

 

[DIYspanner]

New pipe run done and to me its looks better. Will add the pipe to the shower trap when in place.

 

[foxhole]

Waste looks cheap and nasty would replace myself.

 

[DIYspanner]

Its new joints and pipe from a local plumbers merchant so how can it be cheap and nasty?

I used white bends because they had no black in stock.

 

[Hugh Jaleak]

ABS waste is pretty much of a muchness across all the manufacturers, had problems with the Polypipe fitting before, and I'd have said they're one of the bigger manufacturers over the years! Cheap traps can leak, but dont see much wrong with that waste.

 

[DIYspanner]

Well its my first episode with solvent weld pipes although I may get a McAlpine Flexcon6 flexi for coupling the shower waste so its easy to remove and clean.