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Replacing old toilet with a 45deg waste pipe

Anonymous user 09/03/2024 - 3.36 PM

Before I post up a job I just want to do a bit of research. I've recently moved into a property with a very old toilet, between 30 to 70 years old, which is blocking up because of scale build up. I'd like to replace as soon as as I've been advised I can't flush paper down it until I do. The toilet room itself is a standard rectangular toilet only room, but the toilet has the pipe itself coming out at a 45deg angle to it's left (or right looking at it head on) into a pipe coming out from the wall at the same angle. Most toilets I see when searching now all seem to have the waste pipe coming out directly behind. Any tips to replacing this, or anything I can do to making the job easier or for getting someone to do this? I'm assuming I'm looking at redoing some of the pipework so I can fit in a bog standard loo?

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4 Answers

Mashal Builders

Rating: 4.9 out of 5

Blackpool

You could try using a flexible pan connector. I would need to have a proper look to confirm this.

Answered8 January 2024

CP Design & Build

Rating: 5 out of 5

West Wickham

Hi, It’s not uncommon to see pan connectors at an angle (more so in older non-modernised bathrooms) and other than the aesthetic side, they don’t pose a real issue to blockages. There are many various angles in soil pipes both above and below ground, yours is at least at the start of the cistern emptying (meaning the strongest point of flush). If the aesthetics are not an issue then I’d say go with what’s been there all along, just be mindful that a flexi-pipe will need a greater distance and push the toilet further out, a flexi bends whereas an angle is direct and as such takes up less room. When the toilet was installed originally, it would have been with a higher level cistern, whereby giving greater flush pressure via gravity when emptying into the toilet chamber. Hope this helps? Best regards.

Answered13 January 2024

Anonymous user

Hi, Take the measurements of how high the waste pipe is of the floor. How far it protrudes from the back wall. How far it comes out into the room from the wall. Along with photos. Go to a bathroom shop where they will have lots of catalogs with measurements. You will understand what you can and can’t have as a replacement. All the best.

Answered31 January 2024

Paul

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Waltham Cross

I think the fact that the toilet is 30-70 years old the best option is to replace with a new toilet and altar the pipe work were necessary to avoid any further issues in the future

Answered31 January 2024