Replacing a toilet, and moving it slightly to the left.

[Escribblings]

Dear plumbing forum.

I am in the process of preparing to renovate my upstairs bathroom. In doing so I am replacing the entire suite.

Whilst I am endeavouring to keep everything in the same place, it would be beneficial of we could move the toilet a few inches to the left.

Currently we have a close coupled toilet, but I'm replacing this with a back to wall toilet and a 500 wide X 330 deep back to wall fitted cabinet.

I'm OK with the supply piping, but less sure about the waste. I'll be honest, I haven't actually got my head behind there yet, but the waste exits the pan at the rear and goes straight through the outside wall into the soil stack.

Obviously I'm not about to move the hole through the wall.

There does seem to be 6-8 inches between the pan and the wall, assuming I can connect as flush to the wall as possible, how much leeway would a flexible waste connector give?

Or would this just be too much trouble?

Also, would I have to add any reinforcement to the floor?

It's not necessary to move the toilet, but it would be more comfortable of done.

Thanks.

 

[Subby]

You can purchase an offset pan connector which will give you a few inches, but if you want to move the toilet 8 inches you will Obviously need to core a new hole at a very slight angle to accomodate the fall which (depending on the type of wall) should take no longer than half an hour . You need to have a look outside to see the position of the soil stack before coring the wall.

 

[gassafe]

I did a similar job recently, you can normally get a few inches play in a flexi pan connector & the vanity unit helps hide it all! anymore than that & your best coring a new hole as you don't want to create any big offsets behind the pan for obvious reasons!

Mcalpine make good flexis

 

[Riley]

I really wouldn't mess about with tight bends or flexible connectors for this as you just won't get the fall particularly as it's going to be hidden in a Vanity unit. I would recore the wall and hard pipe appropriately

 

[gassafe]

I really wouldn't mess about with tight bends or flexible connectors for this as you just won't get the fall particularly as it's going to be hidden in a Vanity unit. I would recore the wall and hard pipe appropriately

Hard piping is always best but surely that's why they invented the flexi...

 

[Riley]

I'd be inclined to agree mate but not all that keen in a vanity unit from an access perspective. Plus surely that's going to have to be a hell of an angle back to the wall:smile: each to their own though

 

[gassafe]

I'd be inclined to agree mate but not all that keen in a vanity unit from an access perspective. Plus surely that's going to have to be a hell of an angle back to the wall:smile: each to their own though

Back to the wall goes to the vanity unit which is 330 deep, so still got approx 350 from back of pan to allow a offset! i like a flexi, you can ensure you get a good seal on the pan before pushing it all back.

 

[Escribblings]

I only want to move it across about 4 inches.

The 8 inches is an estimate of the current distance between the back of the pan and the wall. This will increase to about 12 inches with the 330mm depth of the vanity unit.

I'm not sure about recoring the wall. But if that is necessary I well either do that our leave the toilet practically where it is.

 

[stevetheplumber]

you can get 50mm offset on a pan con but i find they slow the flush down and if the flush is borderline the pan doesnt always clear

 

[Phil]

Just get a BTW mcalpine jubilee clip flexi connector and dogleg it but don't kink it.