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Toilet waste pipe - floor mounted!
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:34:44 +0100, guv wrote:
In my downstairs loo, we wish to replace the existng WC and do something to cover the clay waste pipe and enable floor tiling to take place. We currently have a non coupled WC/Cistern, which I am assuming will have to be the same - unless we created a false wall to hang the cystern, or dig up and move the exisitng. So a relatively easy question.... That is the best way to replace the loo and is there anything in particular (ie a name) that I need to ask for? Everywhere I look, all I ever see are WCs with waste pipes coming out to meet a wall. The exisiting one has an upsidedown U bend to take it to the floor - with no flexability. I am obviously also concerned about removing this pipe - since damagiing the exisiting clay fitting, is likely to be expense (I would think!) Any helpful advise appreciated. They are called P trap and S trap bogs. You have an S trap and all the new ones are P trap. |
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Toilet waste pipe - floor mounted!
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:05:03 GMT, EricP
wrote: On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:34:44 +0100, guv wrote: In my downstairs loo, we wish to replace the existng WC and do something to cover the clay waste pipe and enable floor tiling to take place. We currently have a non coupled WC/Cistern, which I am assuming will have to be the same - unless we created a false wall to hang the cystern, or dig up and move the exisitng. So a relatively easy question.... That is the best way to replace the loo and is there anything in particular (ie a name) that I need to ask for? Everywhere I look, all I ever see are WCs with waste pipes coming out to meet a wall. The exisiting one has an upsidedown U bend to take it to the floor - with no flexability. I am obviously also concerned about removing this pipe - since damagiing the exisiting clay fitting, is likely to be expense (I would think!) Any helpful advise appreciated. They are called P trap and S trap bogs. You have an S trap and all the new ones are P trap. At least the shed ones are. (Before I get my knuckles rapped) |
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Toilet waste pipe - floor mounted!
EricP wrote: On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:34:44 +0100, guv wrote: In my downstairs loo, we wish to replace the existng WC and do something to cover the clay waste pipe and enable floor tiling to take place. We currently have a non coupled WC/Cistern, which I am assuming will have to be the same - unless we created a false wall to hang the cystern, or dig up and move the exisitng. So a relatively easy question.... That is the best way to replace the loo and is there anything in particular (ie a name) that I need to ask for? Everywhere I look, all I ever see are WCs with waste pipes coming out to meet a wall. The exisiting one has an upsidedown U bend to take it to the floor - with no flexability. I am obviously also concerned about removing this pipe - since damagiing the exisiting clay fitting, is likely to be expense (I would think!) Any helpful advise appreciated. They are called P trap and S trap bogs. You have an S trap and all the new ones are P trap. True, but if you put a swan-neck 90 degree connector on, you end up with one that works like an s-trap. Different toilets have the connection at different distances from the wall. A Roca senso compact for instance includes a swan neck connector which goes into the floor about 150mm from the wall (to the middle of the pipe). If you get a back-to-the-wall toilet with a concealed cistern, you can build a small boxed in half-wall behind to take the cistern, and make it whatever size you need to put the pipe in the right place. I use roca laura btw toilets with grohe cisterns. A |
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