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Advice please on moving soil stack
wrote:
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 ?
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