I will have to dig up my solid kitchen floor to add a soil pipe for
understairs loo. 1920s end terrace, solid brick walls. I would be
digging within 3 meters of party wall. Party wall act required ?
Any idea what I'll find down there in that type of age house ?
Will I end up in a living nightmare ?
Simon.

On 3 Oct 2005 08:25:45 -0700, wrote:

I will have to dig up my solid kitchen floor to add a soil pipe for
understairs loo. 1920s end terrace, solid brick walls. I would be
digging within 3 meters of party wall. Party wall act required ?
Any idea what I'll find down there in that type of age house ?
Will I end up in a living nightmare ?

You might want to check with the local water company about whether you
are entitled to tap into the soil pipe.

We recently had our ground floor bathroom gutted and a new bathroom /
steam room installed.

In the original plans I wanted to move the toilet to the other side of
the bathroom. However, the bathroom installers said that would mean
moving the soil pipe in the floor. They said only the local water
company can move the position of the soil pipe.

Graham

wrote:
In the original plans I wanted to move the toilet to the other side of
the bathroom. However, the bathroom installers said that would mean
moving the soil pipe in the floor. They said only the local water
company can move the position of the soil pipe.

(Sorry!).

wrote:
On 3 Oct 2005 08:25:45 -0700, wrote:

I will have to dig up my solid kitchen floor to add a soil pipe for
understairs loo. 1920s end terrace, solid brick walls. I would be
digging within 3 meters of party wall. Party wall act required ?
Any idea what I'll find down there in that type of age house ?
Will I end up in a living nightmare ?

You might want to check with the local water company about whether you
are entitled to tap into the soil pipe.

We recently had our ground floor bathroom gutted and a new bathroom /
steam room installed.

In the original plans I wanted to move the toilet to the other side of
the bathroom. However, the bathroom installers said that would mean
moving the soil pipe in the floor. They said only the local water
company can move the position of the soil pipe.

Graham

Graham,

I suspect that was some sort of "I don't want that job so I'll spout a load
of bulls**t to put him off" thinking here with the bathroom installer.
ROTFLMAO

Brian G

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On 3 Oct 2005 08:25:45 -0700, wrote:

I will have to dig up my solid kitchen floor to add a soil pipe for
understairs loo. 1920s end terrace, solid brick walls. I would be
digging within 3 meters of party wall. Party wall act required ?
Any idea what I'll find down there in that type of age house ?
Will I end up in a living nightmare ?

You might want to check with the local water company about whether you
are entitled to tap into the soil pipe.

We recently had our ground floor bathroom gutted and a new bathroom /
steam room installed.

In the original plans I wanted to move the toilet to the other side of
the bathroom. However, the bathroom installers said that would mean
moving the soil pipe in the floor. They said only the local water
company can move the position of the soil pipe.

Graham

We've just moved our soil pipe. Only the council are interested - they need
to inspect the works.

Paul

On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 19:13:00 GMT, a particular chimpanzee named
randomly hit the keyboard and produced:

In the original plans I wanted to move the toilet to the other side of
the bathroom. However, the bathroom installers said that would mean
moving the soil pipe in the floor. They said only the local water
company can move the position of the soil pipe.

Then they've either never installed a toilet before (in which case how
good can they be), or they only want to do the job they want to do (in
which case how reliable can they be).
--
Hugo Nebula
"If no-one on the internet wants a piece of this,
just how far from the pack have you strayed?"

We've just moved our soil pipe. Only the council are interested - they need
to inspect the works.
I'm doing an extension at the same time that will involve
drainage/sewer
groundwork, so I would do the loo at the same time. I believe they do
a pressure test of some kind to ensure there are no leaks.
Simon.

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We've just moved our soil pipe. Only the council are interested - they
need
to inspect the works.
I'm doing an extension at the same time that will involve
drainage/sewer
groundwork, so I would do the loo at the same time. I believe they do
a pressure test of some kind to ensure there are no leaks.
Simon.

Well, the inspector came, looked at how the new drainwork (plastic) was
coupled to the existing drain (clay) and after a brief discussion agreed
that the existing clay pipework wouldn't be likely to pass a pressure test
and said he was satisfied and the hole could be filled in. Bizarrely,
although our new soil stack was already in place, pipes and all, he said he
wanted a pressure test on the above ground pipework by plugging the soil
stack below the inspection chamber with an air bag. I say bizarre because as
far as I'm concerned, any leak there will be immediately noticeable (and
fixable) and a pressure test is going to be interesting because of all the
pipes currently feeding into the stack.

We'll call him back soon to do that.

Paul