Downstairs toilet options (looking for advice)

[Mottie]

What a lash up! If you don't want to muck about with the waste pipe at all, can you do something like this? Obviously with the platform, it would need to be from the second stair step.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Got you thanks. Why would the new T need to be lower? Thinking about externally where/how it would enter the exterior wall.

I didn't say would, I said might need to be lowered - From your photos it is impossible to work out what the fall is, on the pipe, a new pipe would need to be to spec.. Another way, to improve the fall, though a botch, would be to raise the entire toilet up.

 

[cdbe]

What a lash up! If you don't want to muck about with the waste pipe at all, can you do something like this? Obviously with the platform, it would need to be from the second stair step.

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I think that was the original arrangement, which was uncovered (because it restricted the door opening) to reveal what we are seeing. As it's an external wall the soil pipe just needs rerouting outside. Hopefully the tee is push fit rather than welded and can be rotated 180.

 

[Elsa TLC]

Reduce the pipe to two inch with a fall from a Saniflow. Repair stairs like Motti says. And fit rodding access.

Could do 1½ or even 1¼ but for that distance I'd do 2 inch.

Swept bends​

 

[Nige F]

I didn't say anywhere that I'd 'just moved in, nor is the pipework 'very recent'. It's 5-6 years old I would estimate. You can see the notch on the second step where the other steps were, I removed those and then later 'fashioned' the 'taped' steps to at least be walkable. While it's great to establish some elaborate mystery story like you're catching people out in some way, you're not and it's not helpful. What I'm describing is the case. Maybe you can tell me why it wasn't specially noted on the inspection, but I'm guessing it's because at the point of sale, the soil pipe did not pierce the staircase because there was another rounded set covering it.

The WC floor is concrete.

A real mystery to me is the soil pipe recessed into the outside wall ? .How is it accessable from outside, could be the way to go. As to ree the diynot troll, good for you putting him right.

 

[ree]

OH, I see the long time forum troll has returned, naughty nigel as his mom calls him - she said that after 60yrs of living in her spare bedroom he's still a naughty boy, and he must stop pretending to be a plumber.
Or he's going back up into the loft again.
She actually called him a divvy but I wont repeat it.