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Moving toilet to new location but leaving waste pipe where it is.
Anonymous user 16 March 2024 - 2.49 PM
Hi, just looking for some advice please. Have a 10 year old property with standard chipboard flooring rather than boards. We have a toilet in main bathroom on one wall and looking to move to the joining wall. In all would be moving about 1 to 1.5m following the contours of the wall. Is it possible to use the existing toilet waste that is mounted in the floor and just 90 elbow and run new pipe along the wall and then box it in? Seems like it should be possible, just working out the practicality of it.
We'd be changing a radiator to where the toilet currently is and swapping to a towel radiator with surface mount radiator pipes so these would go in same boxing.
Thanks for any advice you have
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The short answer: can you do it? Yes. Should you? I wouldn’t. The main issue is that having a 90° turn adds potential for the waste to get clogged. If you want to run it along the wall, the you are looking at 90° bend x3 to get it to the original waste pipe. Another complication is that the new pipe will be a flat horizontal pipe. Gravity is your friend with water works. Having 3 bends and no angling of the pipes to help makes it that the only help to move the waste is the water pressure from the toilet cistern of the flush. The likelihood that your toilet would have flow issues is high. You might find yourself with a plunger many times to get the waste around the 3 hard bends to get to the original waste pipe. You can move it, but you may be left with having to deal with clogging on a regular basis which could be hard to shift.
The short answer: can you do it? Yes. Should you? I wouldn’t. The main issue is that having a 90° turn adds potential for the waste to get clogged. If you want to run it along the wall, the you are looking at 90° bend x3 to get it to the original waste pipe. Another complication is that the new pipe will be a flat horizontal pipe. Gravity is your friend with water works. Having 3 bends and no angling of the pipes to help makes it that the only help to move the waste is the water pressure from the toilet cistern of the flush. The likelihood that your toilet would have flow issues is high. You might find yourself with a plunger many times to get the waste around the 3 hard bends to get to the original waste pipe. You can move it, but you may be left with having to deal with clogging on a regular basis which could be hard to shift.
