ah, a salt-glazed clay pipe in the ground. I thought it would be. It would have been made with a socket in the end, and a spigot can be inserted into it and sealed with mortar or rope. The collar of the socket is often damaged and broken. Clay has no give in it so any movement of the ground or house will crack it. The brickwork in that corner looks damp and stained.
You can get a UPVC adaptor that will go into it. Nowadays you can use a diamond disc to make a clean cut in a broken end, but I have never used one. I have used an adaptor socket with sticky mortar made with waterproof bonding agent.
Once you have a UPVC socket well-fixed and firmly set, it is easy to use UPVC parts to run to the place you need.
If you have a manhole nearby, it might be preferable to run a new pipe.
that's good, you can build a honeycomb dwarf wall to support the joists. If you can jack them up a little, you can then lower them until perfectly level while the mortar is soft.
You can get a UPVC adaptor that will go into it. Nowadays you can use a diamond disc to make a clean cut in a broken end, but I have never used one. I have used an adaptor socket with sticky mortar made with waterproof bonding agent.
Once you have a UPVC socket well-fixed and firmly set, it is easy to use UPVC parts to run to the place you need.
If you have a manhole nearby, it might be preferable to run a new pipe.
that's good, you can build a honeycomb dwarf wall to support the joists. If you can jack them up a little, you can then lower them until perfectly level while the mortar is soft.
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