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hotchocolate
The discharge pipes from my kitchen sink pass horizontally through the wall into my bathroom and are T'd into the vertical discharge pipe from my neighbours bathroom which is above mine. So basically there is a discharge pipe passing through my bathroom from the ceiling straight down through the floor but halfway down between the cieling and floor the discharge pipe from my kitchen is T'd into it at 90 degrees. Problem is that it was done by an unknown past owner and rather than use a 'T' the horizontal discharge from the kitchen has just been pushed into a hole into the vertical pipe and held on by cable ties, and so it leaks. I know that it needs to be done properly with a T and I am happy to do it myself but the T's I have seen have a flange that the PVC pipes that connect to them are pushed into. This means that the pipes to be connected must have some flexibility and can be pushed back past the flange in the first place. As the discharge pipe running top to bottom through my bathroom is fixed so this means that it would not be possible to lift the discharge pipe upwards in order to place the T under it and so then lower the pipe into the flange afterwards, so I was wondering how this should be done? It would be possible to saw out a length of pipe a little longer than the T and then to place the T and also maybe a concertine'd tubing, one that could sit on top of the T and then unravelled upwards to make it longer and so fit around the bottom of the pipe coming down. Is this the correct way to do this? Do such joints exist? How would a pro do this? Thanks for any help
