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Moving a toilet in a small space and pipework
Anonymous user 28 February 2024 - 4.03 PM
My plan is to move a toilet. It will be in a small space, closet WC. Once moved the waste pipe horizontal pattern will be pan spigot to 200mm straight, then a 90 deg angle to ~250mm straight, then another 90 deg angle to ~1000mm straight to soil stack. Ground floor, concrete. The space is 760mm x 1300mm. When looking into the space, the toilet will be on the back wall. It will be a BTW toilet with a false wall section behind for pipework. The waste will run to the right, then 90 deg turn along the right wall to the existing soil pipe which is in the immediate right corner on entering the space. All pipework internal.
Is this an acceptable/OK angulation setup for a short route/small space?
My main concern is falls and the amount of turns across a short span of waste pipework.
Grateful for any plumbers' input or an insight to any better alternatives, cheers.
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Have not got a clue especially as you have not provided any photographs.
My suggestion to you is to get a couple of recommended plumbers around to give you a quote and determine whether or not its possible to do.
Some may charge a callout fee to cover time and diesel.
You will most certainly get a blockage, a total of 1.5m with 3 bends and no fall, each bend would act as a brake on the flow, on top of that modern toilets are water saving so not enough water would enter the pipe to force the packages along.
Hi, without seeing the job, the best answer would be to cut out the 90' bends and go for a flexible pan connector and take the 100mm pipe straight to the down pipe making sure you have a air outlet or an air admittance valve fitted. This would cut out any potential blockage if too many bends are used.
Answered10 February 2022
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Anonymous user
Weve installed a pan onto a large soil waste run before to a stack of well over 4 metres away with 3 x 90 swept elbows but the last turn was connected directly to the stack creating the downward flow required to avoid blockages.
3 years later and its still clearing well.
Its important to ensure a gradient on any waste to assist flow.
The job itself is easy with enough access, in this case it wasnt so moving a toilet can be more costly than its worth and should be seriously considered as it can become an expensive job, done correctly.
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