Good afternoon. It's my first post and I hope you can offer me some advice. Apologies for lack of netiquette on posting such a rambling query, but from reading the forum it seems that the more info I can supply, the more likely it is that the right advice will be forthcoming.
I need to arrange the pipework in a somewhat confined space to connect the back of the toilet to the soil stack that fits in with the period decoration of my 1930's bathroom.
The problem is not only that the space is confined, it is also that the existing cast iron pipe (c.4" diameter) enters a side wall at a 45 degree angle away from the place in which I need the pan connecting.
Please see attached a (very low quality) photograph of the plastic piping that the builder has mocked-up and is proposing to box in (hence the wooden baton). I am averse to the idea of boxing-in and would rather have the pipework exposed if it is possible/looks OK. The toilet has a high-level cistern.
I would ideally like to centre the toilet across the full width of the room (c.1130mm) at c.565mm from the North wall (bottom of the photo). This is a shorter run than the builder’s plastic mock-up which has the toilet centred across the recessed East wall (left of the photo) width of 850mm (at 425mm from the North wall).
I would also like the toilet end point of the pipe to finish further back than the boxwork in the photograph (a mere 245mm from the recessed East wall, rather than 385mm as shown).
If it were not possible to accommodate a free-flowing pipe within these parameters, I would consider compromising on the dimensions of the job in order to have a good-looking piece of exposed pipework, rather than boxing anything in.
Does anyone have any ideas? Who should I approach about this and would other mediums (aside from cast iron) be cheaper/more suitable to the task?
Many thanks,
Duncan
London SE22
I need to arrange the pipework in a somewhat confined space to connect the back of the toilet to the soil stack that fits in with the period decoration of my 1930's bathroom.
The problem is not only that the space is confined, it is also that the existing cast iron pipe (c.4" diameter) enters a side wall at a 45 degree angle away from the place in which I need the pan connecting.
Please see attached a (very low quality) photograph of the plastic piping that the builder has mocked-up and is proposing to box in (hence the wooden baton). I am averse to the idea of boxing-in and would rather have the pipework exposed if it is possible/looks OK. The toilet has a high-level cistern.
I would ideally like to centre the toilet across the full width of the room (c.1130mm) at c.565mm from the North wall (bottom of the photo). This is a shorter run than the builder’s plastic mock-up which has the toilet centred across the recessed East wall (left of the photo) width of 850mm (at 425mm from the North wall).
I would also like the toilet end point of the pipe to finish further back than the boxwork in the photograph (a mere 245mm from the recessed East wall, rather than 385mm as shown).
If it were not possible to accommodate a free-flowing pipe within these parameters, I would consider compromising on the dimensions of the job in order to have a good-looking piece of exposed pipework, rather than boxing anything in.
Does anyone have any ideas? Who should I approach about this and would other mediums (aside from cast iron) be cheaper/more suitable to the task?
Many thanks,
Duncan
London SE22
