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Blackcatgas
Thank you for all the replies.
WHIPES said that i will have to chop out the branch that may go into the house. If you look at the photo's the clay pipe out of the wall is ok, it's the bit in the middle of the cast iron soil stack that's cracked,which i was tols by the Homeserve person was a clay bracnch with cement fibres over the collar joins.
He also said that there looked like a crack on the branch from the collar to the verticle part of the branch but was not sure.
If WIPES says i have i chop out the pipe from inside the house i will hace a big problem as i the wc is closed coupled and tiled around the cistern and pipe going out of the house and laminate flooring around the base of the pan so not very easy at all is it.
Can i just leave the pipe out of the house there and replace the rest in plastic as it is in the photo's which i think will be easeir.
Vince
Hmmm looks like aspestos to me.
Yes you can join onto the existing pipe with a rubber fernco type coupler.however I think that the pipe could also be aspestos which can look like cast iron and you dont really want to be cutting into it.
Is it actually leaking? it be tempted to just repair it with some resin and glass fibre matting (P40 kit from Halfords) once this has set just paint it over with black paint.
TBH Vincent