Bathroom Fitting

New soil pipe installation

Anonymous user 15 March 2024 - 2.39 PM

Only putting out feelers at the moment, as we won't be completing on the house purchase until July. It's a 4 bed semi, and we're planning on moving the bathroom from the shared dividing wall, into one of the bedrooms on the outside wall. Also converting the existing utility room, with a shower, WC, and basin, also on the same outside wall. Currently, all the bathroom plumbing, including the soil stack, is within a huge brick pillar, down the centre of the kitchen (below the existing bathroom, and against the party wall) - the main reason for resiting the bathroom is to get rid of this eyesore, and create more space in the kitchen. The first job that will need doing, will be the installation and connection of a new, external, soil stack. It will be over the run of the existing pipe I think, and there's a manhole within 2 metres. So, who do I get in to do this? Builder, plumber, someone else? I believe the new stack will need planning permission, so should I get plans drawn up and approved first, and if so, by whom? Thanks in advance, Steve