Solvent welding

[Charollaise]

I'm currently installing waste pipework for wc and basin in my first floor bathroom. Some time in the future I will be installing a shower room directly above, on the second floor.

In readiness for this, I'm taking the pipework up through the ceiling (capped above) using the appropriate fittings for my loo, and concealing behind cavity/boxing.

My concern is that if I solvent weld (as I intend to do) the first floor connections, what effect will there be on those joints in the future when I come to work on the pipes on the floor above? There's inevitably going to be some movement etc as I work. Yet I do want to fully finish my bathroom asap and not leave it half done on the offchance there's a leak.

Sadly, it's impossible to determine now, exact lengths. I've a ceiling in the first floor, but not yet a floor in the second floor - if you see what I mean? There will be around a metre gap between the two when done.

 

[kirkgas]

IF you solvent weld the joints properly NOTHING will effect them when you alter them later unless you use a hand grenade

 

[Richard C]

IF you solvent weld the joints properly NOTHING will effect them when you alter them later unless you use a hand grenade

Absolutely

 

[Nige F]

Or as Inspector Clouseau would say .....a beoumb

 

[Charollaise]

Thanks a million Guys! That's incredibly reassuring... I'd been thinking that as long as I made sure the pipe going up through the plasterboard ceiling was incredibly tight, that was my best insurance but sounds like it'll be fine. Cheers!! Now - must get to work...