Washing machine waste pipe

[kelly79]

Hi I would like to fit a washing machine into an outhouse we have the cold water pipes to attach to the machine our problem is the waste pipe, we have a toilet outside which we could run the washer waste pipe into the toilet waste pipe there but the toilet waste pipe is concreted in so we can't change the pipe to one with a boss adapter onto it, so our question is can you cut into the toilet waste pipe and use a boss strap and fit it this way sorry if I'm confusing you

 

[Burnerman]

If you mean ‘can I cut into the toilet ceramic waste’ then no......It will end in tears!
John

 

[kelly79]

Thank you for the reply the pipe is plastic it just goes into concrete in the floor

 

[Elkato531]

If it is 4" soil pipe and there is enough to get a strap on boss onto, then no problem provided you have a trap on the washing machine waste. If its the plastic pan connector, this will have a smaller diameter and won't take a strap on boss. It may be possible, however, to reconfigure the toilet/soil connection to make it work. Pictures would help.

 

[Madrab]

OOoooooo - an outside toilet - haven't seen one of them in, pheww .... gotta be 75 years ... them were the days - newspaper for the A$$ wipe too, kids these days don't know how lucky they they are ...

 

[kelly79]

Thank you ill take some pictures tomorrow

 

[kelly79]

OOoooooo - an outside toilet - haven't seen one of them in, pheww .... gotta be 75 years ... them were the days - newspaper for the A$$ wipe too, kids these days don't know how lucky they they are ...

Haha the house was built in the 60s so yeah quite a few years ago it comes In handy tho when the kids are outside saves them running in the house to the upstairs especially when they have been using the pool (when we have nice weather )

 

[Madrab]

rare beasts these days ... as you say if it serves a purpose then most excellent - just isolate it in the winter as the supply can freeze up.

 

[kelly79]

Sorry about the grim picture it' was behind some wooden boxing

 

[Hugh Jaleak]

Unlikely you'll fit a Boss to that, diameter is too small. Best option would be to carefully dig the concrete out around where it goes into the floor and replace it with one with a Boss.

 

[kelly79]

Unlikely you'll fit a Boss to that, diameter is too small. Best option would be to carefully dig the concrete out around where it goes into the floor and replace it with one with a Boss.

Thank you for the reply, not what I wanted to hear haha I have no idea what to do from here the pipe isn't that far underground as the drain is right outside this toilet room is just the doing part..

 

[kelly79]

Unlikely you'll fit a Boss to that, diameter is too small. Best option would be to carefully dig the concrete out around where it goes into the floor and replace it with one with a Boss.

Can you get ones smaller than 110mm as that seems the standard size if so would that work?

 

[Hugh Jaleak]

The white plastic pan connector wont go far under the concrete, it'll be inserted into the clay drain from the toilet. Shouldn't be too difficult to get out once the concrete around it has been chipped away, just be care not to damage the pan or the drain in the process.

The only way you might be bale to connect to it is by using a mechanical Boss, (solvent welded type wont glue to that type of plastic, and will be too big anyway. My concern with that though would be you would constricting the narrow section of pipework that is the pan connector, even more with the Boss on the inside, leading to a high risk of the WC repeatedly blocking.

New Pan Connector I'm afraid is probably your only real option.

 

[Burnerman]

Is this the sort of thing you need?

https://www.screwfix.com/p/mcalpine-flexible-90-angled-wc-connector-white-155mm/271jj

But without the flexible part!
Connectors are available with smaller inlets if you want.
John

 

[Madrab]

Is the main body of the pan connector quite stiff or soft?

Only other way you may be able to do it, if pan connector tube is firm, would be to cut ~ 2" above ground level and use a banded adapter (flexseal fernco) and then use a shorter bossed connector above it but that would be a bit of a fudge. Would need to know the diameter though.