Soil Pipe Puns

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I work for an it company, over the past month we noticed a foul smell which was getting increasingly worse. We assumed it was the sink blocked up but when it got so bad we decided to investigate further and found the soil pipe feeding through the centre of the building had split and sewage was leaking over the carpet.

When we noticed this everyone left the office and after being stood outside for a while we assumed we would be sent home, an emergency plumber would be called and it would be rectified by tomorrow morning and we would resume work as normal.

However this was not the case, we worked from outside and brought our desk chairs and files outside, it was a warm day and we was in the sun, we done this until the end of the day and as we left we was told we would be texted before 9pm regarding what the plan was for tomorrow, working from home, coming into office, closing for the day so we left and waited, we got a text telling us to come into the office as normal tomorrow.

When we arrived at the office in the morning everybody was waiting outside, a plumber arrived shortly after and investigated and said they would be able to fix it but would have to replace floorboards, carpet etc etc and said that we cant be in the building because of the fact it could be toxic.

Our supervisors advised us all to go home so we all did, I drove 40 minutes home and as soon as I got home I got a call telling me to come back to the office as did everyone else. We got back and higher management was there and put us in a circle outside and gave us a telling off, questioning us as to why we went home.

Ultimately they told us we could of worked from our cars in the car park or waited and worked outside and that they suggested they are deducting an hours pay.

is it okay for them to deduct an hours pay when my superior in the office told us to leave ?

is there any recourse for me after breathing in human excrement particles for the better park of a month?

Sorry if any of this gets confusing i'm a little scattered at the moment.

If anything needs clarifying please ask.

Thankyou

We have recently had a new bathroom fitted, on day 2 we noticed the roof above the shower had started to leak. On investigation in the loft we had discovered rainwater had been leaking in.

On further investigation we have discovere the following:

• Stench or soil pipe has been capped so no longer leaves the property (bathroom to loft).
• The remainder of the stench pipe (from loft to roof) has now been used a ventilation tube for the bathroom extractor fan.
• The rainwater was entering the new "extractor fan pipe" through the ventilator and into the roof.
• Obnoxious smells and gasses from what I believe to be the stench pipe are now no longer exiting through the ceiling, and although the pipe is capped the loft now smells of sewage.

My question/s are:

is it safe, normal practice or even legal for the stench pipe to be capped in such a manor?

should the remainder of the stench pipe ever have been used for the extractor?

Has anyone experience such a circumstnce before, or is this a dodgy job?

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I need to connect to a 110mm soil pipe but I don’t know what kind it is (push-fit vs solvent weld?) I’ve seen someone elsewhere suggest a compression fitting would be best but I’m having trouble finding the right thing. It will be a straight through coupler connection.

Anyone have any tips? Screwfix seems to have 8000 options, none of them look right 🤔.

Morning,

I'm looking to replace this cast iron downpipe with pvc but struggling to work out how to access safely. If anyone has ideas I'd appreciate it. Cheers.

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I'd like to fit an under the stairs toilet, it's the best place for it, my problem is the soil pipe.

Here's a shitty diagram, hope it makes sense... https://i.imgur.com/XRjxzUg.jpg

I live in a terrace house so can't go out the side. My soil stack is just inside the kitchen extension (there was a toilet room there which I've ripped out now). The sewer runs down the street through all the gardens and under my extension. I have a drain cover outside in the garden, the sewer is fed from a small drain by the double doors of the dining room which is the waste water from the kitchen sink, along with the soil stack feed from inside the extension.

My floors are concrete so can't run soil pipe under floorboards.

So far I can think of three options.

1. Dig a trench through the house and install a 4in soil pipe from under the stairs to the old soil stack. A lot of work and living with a trench through the kitchen sounds shit.

2. Run the soil pipe boxed off along the back of the kitchen units. But I'm not sure if this is even viable to fit it behind cooker and cabinets etc.

3. Get a macerator and run the pipe up into the bathroom (above the kitchen) and into the upstairs soil pipe. I don't really like the idea of a macerator, had one in a house I rented once, they are shit.

Has anyone got any suggestions how to get round this poo pipe problem? Thanks!

Our soil pipe goes into our neighbour's back yard and extension (built by the previous owner) and has been there for at least 50 years. The landlord is repairing the property between tenants and the pipe has just started leaking. We are currently away and will be for the next week, and have only communicated with by texting. He suggested the pipe should be removed from his property. I live in England. Does he have any legal right to remove the pipe?

I’ve tried Drano, I’ve tried taking the u-bend out and running a snake through it, it just won’t do anything!

How do I fix this mistake of accidentally pouring my plant soil down the drain? It’s past the U-bend and where the pipe meets the wall. The u-bend is clear.

Has anyone done this, or had it done?

I've got to put in a brand new shiny hole in my external wall, roughly 132mm for a soil pipe. (joint has to be in the wall, so this includes the collar), and ideally be at an incline.

This is a 1880's stone terrace, the wall is roughly 360mm thick, with stone on the outside and brick on the inside.

Ideas so far:

1. Use a relatively cheap SDS drill with some cheap shallow 150mm cores - I don't know how far this will get me, if at all. Definitely the cheapest

2. Do it the hard way with a bunch of smaller holes, again using an SDS drill.

3. Rent a dedicated core drill conveniently I'll have to rent a 110v transformer as well. Although I can rent a proper full-depth core bit. Probably £120 a day with wear and undoubtedly some other bullshit hidden costs in there somewhere.

4. Get someone else to do it - no clue how much this will cost or what kind of tradesman

5. Any other ideas? Dynamite? Chisel out the bricks?

We have a horrible issue with our plumbing, the water in our toilet won’t drain away at all. I opened the drain cover outside, saw it was about half full of water so called a company out which jetted it and made the drain flow smoothly, he also put a camera down to make sure it was clear to the main sewer lines.

Unfortunately this did not allow our toilet to flow, so he put a camera up and our soil pipe is blocked solid apparently, jetting it from the drain end didn’t achieve anything.

Anyway, I called a plumber to clear the drain pipe and he’s coming tomorrow, but he wants to put sulphuric acid down the vent from the roof (our soil pipe is internal) but I’m a bit worried, specifically that if this doesn’t work I’m going to have a pipe full of sulphuric acid which would made it dangerous for any other plumber who comes out to try and fix it.

The blockage is fundamentally caused by baby wipes. They are now banned in the house but the damage is done at this point.

Is it a good idea to let the plumber try the sulphuric acid?

I'm in the process of converting my garage into a utility room/downstairs loo. The house is a 1970's build and for some unknown reason they decided that adding a toilet in the corner of the garage would be a great place to put it.

Fast forward 50 years and I've knocked down the toilets pokey dividing wall, added a stud wall to create a utility but decided to reinstate the loo but in a different place. I've gone for a wall mounted toilet frame and cistern to try and give me the smallest footprint possible and will install a short projection wall hung loo.

Here comes the question, I now need to connect up the (90mm) soil pipe from the loo frame to the existing (130mm) soil pipe connector embedded in the floor. The plan is to run it under/behind units on the back wall.

Initially I have been looking at a Boss Connector as I also need to add a drain for a washing machine and tumble dryer but concerned this will stick up too high and mean the resulting angle of the pipe running back to the loo would be too great. I then started looking at flexible pipe options (assume longer lengths of these aren't a thing?) and also 130/90 inline reducers and adjustable bends.

Seems to be a number of different ways of achieving it wondering what anyone thinks could be the correct/best way?

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I'm in the process of refitting my downstairs toilet. Currently it is just a bare room with nothing in it. For various reasons I am not going to complete this job for weeks.

The problem is, whenever anyone uses the shower or bath upstairs, the smell of drains fills the lower level of the house. Anytime there is hot water draining there is the smell.

I have tried double bagging the soil pipe were it comes through the wall, and the overflow pipe connected to it, but its just not doing the trick.

The main soil pipe is about 5 metres away so I am confident nothing is washing back up, plus the problem only occurred when I removed the toilet, and the water block in the ubend.

Any ideas on a temp solution so that I don't need to wear a hazmat suit round my house? 😀

[England] We had a new boiler installed, and the installer mentioned that they only cover the boiler, and not to bother contacting the company if there was a problem with the soil pipe (he connected a pipe from the boiler to the soil pipe).

I thought it was an odd thing to say, and a couple of months later it's clear he damaged the soil pipe.

The soil pipe is at least a decade or two old (hard plastic), but worked fine before the installer touched it, and now has gunk around where he connected the boiler pipe to it (the sink / bath / toilet connections to the pipe are fine, the gunk is just where he connected the boiler pipe).

Do they have to fix it?