Installing a new lavatory
 

I'm looking at fitting a new bathroom suite soon and the only bit I'm not
sure about is in fitting a new loo and what happens if that doesn't fit
against the wall and the waste position needs changing. I guess that
involves a major digging exercise down to the sewer and laying new pipes.
From the wall to the centre of the current ceramic waste is 25cm. Is that
some sort of standard dimension which means that any new loo will abut the
wall properly?
--
Dave Baker
Puma Race Engines
www.pumaracing.co.uk
Camp USA engineer minces about for high performance specialist (4,4,7)

Installing a new lavatory
 

Dave Baker wrote:

I'm looking at fitting a new bathroom suite soon and the only bit I'm not
sure about is in fitting a new loo and what happens if that doesn't fit
against the wall and the waste position needs changing. I guess that
involves a major digging exercise down to the sewer and laying new pipes.
From the wall to the centre of the current ceramic waste is 25cm. Is that
some sort of standard dimension which means that any new loo will abut the
wall properly?
--
Dave Baker
Puma Race Engines
www.pumaracing.co.uk
Camp USA engineer minces about for high performance specialist (4,4,7)

Easiest thing is to get a loo with the outlet horizontal out of the
back rather than using an S-trap and trying to line up the bottom
outlet. Then use adapter to connect to loo to the waste pipe in the
floor. A new close-coupled loo with the cistern behind the seat will
usually end up futher from the wall.
Simon.

Installing a new lavatory
 

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:24:29 -0000, Dave Baker wrote:

From the wall to the centre of the current ceramic waste is 25cm. Is
that some sort of standard dimension which means that any new loo will
abut the wall properly?

Also doing a bathroom and also have a high level loo with bottom outlet
that will be changed to a close coupled unit. I don't think there is any
standard, I did have a look through "The Blue Book"
http://www.thebluebook.co.uk (be warned it's fussy about browsers...) at
bottom outlet loos and they all appeared to have different wall to outlet
distances and that's from the same maker!

I've went for a horizontal outlet and resigned myself to the work
required to get soil plumbed. Then wandering around the builders
merchants (as you do) I saw a Hunterplastics S234. Second connector down
on http://database.hunterplastics.co.uk/groups?rangeno=21. This should
*just* sort my problem out. In theory the solid pan base overlaps the
pipe in the floor by 10mm, but the wall isn't tiled yet... It'll still be
tight but within acceptable ranges I hope.

--
Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

Installing a new lavatory
 

Dave Baker wrote:
I'm looking at fitting a new bathroom suite soon and the only bit I'm not
sure about is in fitting a new loo and what happens if that doesn't fit
against the wall and the waste position needs changing. I guess that
involves a major digging exercise down to the sewer and laying new pipes.
From the wall to the centre of the current ceramic waste is 25cm. Is that
some sort of standard dimension which means that any new loo will abut the
wall properly?

Not sure of your specific dimensions, but have a look at
http://www.bes.ltd.uk - they (and I would think most plumbers
merchants, TBH) stock any number of adaptors between clay and plastic
pipes, including some with flexible couplings and/or offset centres.
I'd be surprised if there wasn't something there to suit.

Does the existing soil pipe exit the loo horizontally through the back
wall, or downwards into the floor (the latter is more problematical I'd
have thought)

David