Hi,
We recently got a new toilet fitted which was badly connected to the existing cast iron soil pipe coming into the bathroom. Basically the guys installing left the existing connector (probably wrong word!) and added a new one to it and sealed with good old silicone! Strangely enough this started to leak and got progressively worse.
Now they are back looking at it and tell me that the cast iron soil pipe coming into the bathroom will need to be replaced with a plastic pipe so that the correct connector can be purchased (they are not going to charge for this). So they are planning on cutting into the elbow of the cast iron pipe outside, replacing with plastic - cementing the joint and then connecting plastic to plastic internally.
I am guessing this is all about the standard width of the metal pipe not being the same as the more modern plastic connectors - but I would have guessed there is an adapter or something like that to go from 9cm to 8cm?
Probably a vague question but I am mainly wondering on what people think about the approach - it is correct or should I get them searching for a better adapter/connector?
We recently got a new toilet fitted which was badly connected to the existing cast iron soil pipe coming into the bathroom. Basically the guys installing left the existing connector (probably wrong word!) and added a new one to it and sealed with good old silicone! Strangely enough this started to leak and got progressively worse.
Now they are back looking at it and tell me that the cast iron soil pipe coming into the bathroom will need to be replaced with a plastic pipe so that the correct connector can be purchased (they are not going to charge for this). So they are planning on cutting into the elbow of the cast iron pipe outside, replacing with plastic - cementing the joint and then connecting plastic to plastic internally.
I am guessing this is all about the standard width of the metal pipe not being the same as the more modern plastic connectors - but I would have guessed there is an adapter or something like that to go from 9cm to 8cm?
Probably a vague question but I am mainly wondering on what people think about the approach - it is correct or should I get them searching for a better adapter/connector?