What type of drain pipe is this? (1)

[perky416]

Hi guys.

Can anybody identify what type of drain pipe this is please (pic attached).

It is the pipe from the hopper where the gutter down pipe goes.

I was expecting to find a clay pipe, but the silver bit on top of the socket looks like a weld so im guessing it is cast iron. The outer diameter of the pipe itself is about 125mm / 5". The house was built in 1957.

I need to connect a 110mm PVC pipe to it so need to figure out what it is before i cut it.

Thanks

 

[perky416]

Hi guys.

Can anybody identify what type of drain pipe this is please (pic attached)?

It is the pipe from the hopper where the gutter down pipe goes.

I was expecting to find a clay pipe, but the silver bit on top of the socket looks like a weld so im guessing it is cast iron. The outer diameter of the pipe itself is about 125mm / 5". The house was built in 1957.

I need to connect a 110mm PVC pipe to it so need to figure out what it is so i can get the correct fitting before i cut it.

Thanks

 

[cross thread]

Looks like clay pipe to me

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Clay. With something stuck to it, possibly from while it was being fired.

 

[perky416]

Thanks guys. Im going to use a variable adapter ive found, they are used to connecting PVC to both clay and cast iron.

 

[Burnerman]

It looks like a cement fillet with some contaminant caught when firing? No welding there!
John

 

[perky416]

Yeah they arent in line. The right pipe runs parallel with the house wall, if it was to continue it would hit the soil pipe. The left pipe looks like it is angled away from the wall slightly. It joins the soil pipe about 1m away from the house.

 

[Burnerman]

Just a bit of a cement bodge then?
John

 

[noseall]

Hi guys.

Can anybody identify what type of drain pipe this is please (pic attached).

It is the pipe from the hopper where the gutter down pipe goes.

I was expecting to find a clay pipe, but the silver bit on top of the socket looks like a weld so im guessing it is cast iron. The outer diameter of the pipe itself is about 125mm / 5". The house was built in 1957.

I need to connect a 110mm PVC pipe to it so need to figure out what it is before i cut it.

Thanks

Standard 4" (bore) salt glazed pipe with tarred rope & mortar, male-female connections.

 

[Mottie]

Standard 4" (bore) salt glazed pipe with tarred rope & mortar, male-female connections.

Could you be a bit more specific………

 

[noseall]

Could you be a bit more specific………

Typically comes in 3' sections. Less brittle than it's modern counterpart (Supersleeve) so less likely to heat split when being cut with a grinder. The female end points uphill.

 

[Mottie]

Typically comes in 3' sections. Less brittle than it's modern counterpart (Supersleeve) so less likely to heat split when being cut with a grinder.

Enough!

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

It's brown and full of poo.

No wrong, it's rainwater so full of dead leaves.

Seriously, if it's from 1957 then find out where it goes and whether it still works. Soakaways don't last for ever, they clog eventually.