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Hi all

at present, my soil stack is an ugly rusting thing. Our house is an "L"
shaped bungalow on the corner of the road. The longer sides face the
road, and the shorter sides face the back garden.

The soil stack is situated right in the corner of the back (where the 2
shorter sides meet). It goes up about 6'6", and then has an angled
piece to carry it higher than the guttering.

Apart from looking ugly, the gap between the pipe and the fascia is
about 4" ... and that's after I put some stand offs on the wall to try
and move it off a bit.

Ideally I'd like to replace it with a plastic one.

Questions :

1) Looking at the base, it appears the existing pipe just comes out of
the concrete. How exactly does the pipe mate with the sewer, and how
would I need to get a new plastic pipe to seal tightly ?

2) Instead of the angled bend, I'd like to put the pipe through the
eaves, throught the loft, and use a weather slate to pass it to the
outside. However, if I follow the line of the pipe directly up through
the eaves, it hits the gulley where the two angles of the roof meet.
There's about 6" clearance between the eaves and the gulley. Is this
enough to make an bend INSIDE the loft, and bring the pipe out
somewhere else ?

3) What would be involved in moving the whole thing ?

Thanks in advance all

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Hi all

at present, my soil stack is an ugly rusting thing. Our house is an "L"
shaped bungalow on the corner of the road. The longer sides face the
road, and the shorter sides face the back garden.

The soil stack is situated right in the corner of the back (where the 2
shorter sides meet). It goes up about 6'6", and then has an angled
piece to carry it higher than the guttering.

Apart from looking ugly, the gap between the pipe and the fascia is
about 4" ... and that's after I put some stand offs on the wall to try
and move it off a bit.

Ideally I'd like to replace it with a plastic one.

Questions :

1) Looking at the base, it appears the existing pipe just comes out of
the concrete. How exactly does the pipe mate with the sewer, and how
would I need to get a new plastic pipe to seal tightly ?

2) Instead of the angled bend, I'd like to put the pipe through the
eaves, throught the loft, and use a weather slate to pass it to the
outside. However, if I follow the line of the pipe directly up through
the eaves, it hits the gulley where the two angles of the roof meet.
There's about 6" clearance between the eaves and the gulley. Is this
enough to make an bend INSIDE the loft, and bring the pipe out
somewhere else ?

3) What would be involved in moving the whole thing ?

Thanks in advance all

could I use an air admittance valve to remove the need for the stack ?

[Andy]

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Hi all

at present, my soil stack is an ugly rusting thing. Our house is an "L"
shaped bungalow on the corner of the road. The longer sides face the
road, and the shorter sides face the back garden.

The soil stack is situated right in the corner of the back (where the 2
shorter sides meet). It goes up about 6'6", and then has an angled
piece to carry it higher than the guttering.

Apart from looking ugly, the gap between the pipe and the fascia is
about 4" ... and that's after I put some stand offs on the wall to try
and move it off a bit.

Ideally I'd like to replace it with a plastic one.

Questions :

1) Looking at the base, it appears the existing pipe just comes out of
the concrete. How exactly does the pipe mate with the sewer, and how
would I need to get a new plastic pipe to seal tightly ?

2) Instead of the angled bend, I'd like to put the pipe through the
eaves, throught the loft, and use a weather slate to pass it to the
outside. However, if I follow the line of the pipe directly up through
the eaves, it hits the gulley where the two angles of the roof meet.
There's about 6" clearance between the eaves and the gulley. Is this
enough to make an bend INSIDE the loft, and bring the pipe out
somewhere else ?

3) What would be involved in moving the whole thing ?

Thanks in advance all


The stack probably fits into an salt glazed clay pipe inside the concrete.
Be careful chopping into this, the clay pipe can fracture. You can get
plastic adapters to meet your requirements, though it might take a bit of
headscratching to figure out which to use. Mate the assembly together, and
seal in position with concrete. The concrete will prevent any leakage. In
fact the standard bodge for a leaking glazed clay pipe is to cast concrete
around the leak.

The rest I don't know,

Andy.

[David Hansen]

On 19 Sep 2006 09:11:03 -0700 someone who may be
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1) Looking at the base, it appears the existing pipe just comes out of
the concrete. How exactly does the pipe mate with the sewer,

As others have said, probably an earthenware pipe.

and how would I need to get a new plastic pipe to seal tightly ?

You certainly need to get to seal tightly:-) As has been said
plastic adapters and cement are options. Don't test the joint before
the cement has set.

2) Instead of the angled bend, I'd like to put the pipe through the
eaves, throught the loft, and use a weather slate to pass it to the
outside.

Thus making a hole in the roof, which (like all holes in the roof)
may leak. Far better, in my view, to minimise the number of holes in
the roof by keeping the existing arrangement, but perhaps neatening
it up.

3) What would be involved in moving the whole thing ?

This is the sort of job where the council's Building Control people
know what they are talking about and are an invaluable source of
advice. Contact them and ask.


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