Huge wrote in
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On 2017-01-25, Simon T wrote:
Am currently installing a new bathroom suite.

Removed the old toilet to tile behind it. Went to fit the new one,
only to find the new tank is a lot smaller and doesn't touch the
wall, leaving a 40mm gap (or thereabouts).

Can't push the toilet pan back any further. So, is it a case of
taking the pan back off and cutting the soil pipe back by 40mm, or do
I just use an extra long screw and some sort of spacer?

I've always done the latter. I've used rubber bungs or 22mm water pipe
as spacer before now. You can also screw a batten to the wall & fix
the cistern to that.


I used a sandwich of pasterboard - cut small to be hidden but big enough
to take the load.