help with new downstairs toilet

[isteve]

Hi folks. Im looking to install a new downstairs toilet in a space that is currently just a cloakroom. Current soil stack is the other side of the house so I cant use this. The toilet will be installed next to an external wall, the other side of the wall being an alley way. This alley way currently has an open gulley which takes waste from the kitchen/boiler (approx 2 meters from proposed toilet location. About 3.5 meters from proposed toilet location is a manhole cover (still within the alley way). I believe below the manhole cover is a plastic chamber that combines water and toilet waste which continues along the street.

My question is.. how do I get a toilet plumbed in? Am I going to need a new stub stack trenched in up to the manhole cover or can I use a macerator and plumb that into the existing gulley or something?!

Thanks in advance.

 

[Hugh Jaleak]

Any toilet needs to be connected directly to the drain, you cannot connect into a gulley. Really need to see what the current arrangements are to determine exactly what needs to be done. As you've a drain within reasonable proximity to the proposed new W.C. position, use it!

Macerators are fine. Until you use them. Read this: http://www.diyfaq.org.uk/humour.html