soil pipe

I'm hoping to move a toilet about 1m further along the same outside wall. Unfortunately the place where the waste would ideally go through the outside wall is right in the middle of a brick arch (over the window downstairs) and I'm keen not to drill a big hole in it. Is it sensible to have a...

Hi. We had a new soil pipe put in and a new toilet but since the work I have getting a lot of sewage smells coming up around the soil pipe. No leaks anywhere but I have seen that there is a void around the base of the soil stack that air is rising up from. The void is wide enough to put my hand...

I'm at the final stages of plumbing in my bathroom, I'm a beginner. As you can see in the photo I have this space saving pan connector, then I have a length of 110mm pipe. I didn't really need this as I'll box it in, and I had black 110mm anyway. Is this the correct way to do it? Pan...

Hi, I'm trying to sort out the back of my terracedhterraced Victorian houseahouse garden. As you can see in the photos, the soil stack ends up just going directly into the ground, where I imagine it bends away from the house and meets the sewage pipe that the neighbours say run horizontally...

Hi, I took off my very old soil stack with the intention of getting external wall insulation done. The company could do it in a few weeks which would be fine, but I just heard the news about grants in September for these kinds of jobs, and I'm on borrowed money so I feel it would be best to wait...

Hi, I'm currently in the process of building rear exstension, outside directly below kitchen window is the waste gully for sink etc... This has got to be normal but finding it difficult for the best solution. 1- connect directly into soil down pipe 2 metres away directly into branch and blank...

I want to remove a swan neck fitting from the top of a cast iron soil stack which is about 4"/100 mm diameter. This piece attaches to the vertical stack with a lead-sealed socket joint (see sketch). How can I dismantle this joint? I don't want to damage any of the main vertical pipe, including...

Recently bought a bungalow (70 years old-ish). Bad smells coming from around the toilet area periodically. Sometimes when it rains heavily, sometimes with no weather change. I have checked and flushed out the pipes going outside into the manhole, no problems there. So I thought the soil...

Hi I've got a recently built extension with a bathroom. The shower trap is letting sewerage smells come up from it. I've been doing a bit of research and I'm thinking that the issue may be that the soil stack is not vented. The waste from the shower, bath and basin connect to this stack on the...

Hi I have tried to find a similar question but have struggled so hopefully someone can advise. We want to put a bathroom upstairs, currently the toilet downstairs goes straight into the ground and out to a shared soil pipe leading to a manhole. We are closest to the manhole so the pipe is...

Hi everyone! I am moving a toilet across a room. I have had conflicting opinions from two plumbers about soil pipe routing. I upload a dodgy sketch to explain. In the circle is the current toilet and vent pipes which are boxed. I need to remove the toilet and all the pipes in that wall. For the...

Toilet is leaking from this pipe and I’m not really sure how to fix it. Before going to a plumber I thought I’d come here to get any tips on how to fix it. Someone came to put a floor in and he moved the toilet when doing this. But since then the toilet started leaking.

An unsavoury topic, perhaps, and I apologise in advance to anyone who may have eaten recently! Our downstairs toilet seems to suddenly have started blocking very frequently. I've bought a toilet plunger, which never fails to shift the "material", and it'll be fine for a few days, then blocks...

Hi all, I'm trying to fit a PVC S-bend leading to a vent to an existing caste iron soil pipe. I've bought a converter, which you just plug into the hole of the existing caste iron pipe but found the rubber fins on the converter are quite shallow and it doesn't seem long enough to be secure. The...

Hi all, We live in the middle floor of a three story block of flats. In our bathroom behind the toilet we have a panel where the soil pipe runs and all our waste pipes run to. We have always had a musty smell that we could smell every now and then in the bathroom but wasn’t ever that bad...

Hi, We've got an old larder space that we're thinking of converting to a downstairs toilet and sink. Trouble is it's in the middle of the house with no soil pipe nearby. We were initially thinking of putting in a Saniflo (or a Wasterflo WC2 rather). But anyone you talk to seems to say to avoid...

Hi Our soil pipe stack is leaking from a pipe joint where it enters the flat roof of our extension. I noticed a tiny pool of water on the dry roof when looking out the window today. Photos show pipe joint and leak. Upstairs taps, bath, sink and shower all drain properly but upstairs loo often...

Hi, the horizontal length of 4” pipe from cistern frame to the face of the 92.5 degree bend which goes into the main stack pipe, is 1400mm and has a fall of 45mm i.e 1:31.6, is this okay? I’m aware 1:40 is the standard. See attached for more details. Also the joint of the bend and the 4inch...

I currently having an issue with rats in my loft space. I believe they are coming though my soil pipe and climbing that until they are on the roof guttering. I can stop that partially by blocking the soil pipe with a rat stop product. However, I also have a downspout that goes from the roof into...

Hello, I previously thought I had a problem with leaking ventilation ducting from an extractor fan vent in the loft caused by steam from the shower fan and/or a leak in the roof. This originally started as a nail had pierced the flexible ducting used to connect the 2 pipes in the loft and...