"wounded horse" wrote in message
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I need to change an old low level flushpipe type toilet that discharges
downwards into a pan connector in the bathroom floor.. The porcelain of
the toilet to be changed faces downwards. I have bought a new close
coupled toilet which discharges horizontally like all modern toilets. The
2nd issue is that as the close coupled toilet will be nearer the wall, I
can't get onto the floor waste inlet with a 90 degree pan connector on the
new WC. The soil stack is internal and boxed in in the bathroom corner to
the left of the WC as I face it. Am I going to have to remove the boxing
off the soil stack and add a branch to connect off the new toilet sideways?

I had exactly this problem when I replaced the toilet bowl and cistern in my
downstairs loo. The floor was solid and I didn't fancy digging it up! First
of all I bought a flexible soil pipe to connect from the horizontal outlet
from the toilet bowl and down into the sewer pipe. This meant that I could
get the cistern as close to the wall as possible. I then bought a sheet of
ply to create a false wall behind the cistern. fixed it to the side walls
with battens and put a shelf across the top. Works a treat and looks just
fine. This was in a narrow downstairs cloakroom where I could insert the
false wall right across between the two walls. If you are doing a similar
job in a wider room then you would have to create some form of box behind
the cistern.

Kev