Moving downstairs loo

[Steve]

Hello folks

I want to move our downstairs loo slightly and am after little advice.

Currently, there is a straight waste extension that comes up from the concrete floor waste pipe, through the floorboards and connects to the toilet. With the straight pipe, the cistern is currently about 6 inches away from the wall and is fixed to some boxing used as packing.

What I want to do is either move the toilet back so the cistern is against the wall, or possibly even rotate it by 90deg and fix it to an adjacent wall. To move it either way, obviously the straight waste pipe will have to be changed. Moving it back will require ~6", rotating it may require a little more, perhaps 8". The waste exit in the concrete floor is about 8 to 10 inches from the floorboards.

My question is, is there anything I can replace the straight waste pipe with which will allow me to move the toilet? I've seen the offset waste fittings but they only appear to give a few mm offset.

Thanks for any advice you can offer. If I'm missing any info, or need to provide more accurate measurements etc, please advise.

Regards Steve

[Roger Mills]

Getting an offset of 6" in a vertical space not much more than that is a bit of a tall order! Is there enough room to get two 135 degree bends in, back to back - and would that give you enough offset?

Alternatively, could you take the waste straight out through the wall, and join it into the sewer *outside* (and blank off the existing pipe, of course)?

[Steve]

Thanks for the input. The 135 degree may do, I'll have to check how much room exactly there is.

The thought of moving the waste through the wall and finding entry to the sewer a) scares me, b) sounds expensive.

Thanks again, Steve

[Invisible Man]

A regular problem because newer pans have a different outlet position to older ones. We went to a specialist place and found a Topravit Loren Two with an outlet well forward of the usual position. When used with a connector that looks a bit like a shortened question mark it fits back to the wall. Not cheap even over the internet. (Ours came from JCS Bathrooms)