Removing toilet soil pipe

[Antonio Carlini]

I'm redecorating a cloakroom, which involves replacing the toilet and tiling the floor.

The old floor covering is out. The toilet and cistern are gone.

The soil pipe came out horizontally and then turned 90 degrees down and over what I presume is a clay pipe that then goes through the floor and presumably off to the waste sewer.

The white plastic soil now will not budge - although I've not hit it or pushed it too hard as I don't want to damage the clay pipe.

It looks a litle like this:

mine's horizontal and then turns 90 degrees down rather than being up-and-down as in the photograph. My white soil pipe is also a larger diameter than the clay pipe (so it fits over it).

How do I get rid of the old white plastic soil pipe?

What would be the consequence of hitting/pulling too hard and breaking the brown clay pipe?

Thanks

Antonio [e-mail]

[jgharston]

Need you ask? Angle grinder!

Use a small rotary cutter such as a Dremell-type tool to cut down the inside of the plastic pipe so you can split it.

JGH

[Stephen H]

that will be a 5h11tty job.......

[jgharston]

I've just spent all day chiselling limescale out of a toilet. I think I still have shards of it in the ends of my fingers.

What the hell do people eat that causes them to crap out stone?

JGH

[Dave Liquorice]

Doesn't come from crap but piss and IIRC is urea.

[Dave Liquorice]

Think about it, if the slate disolved in the rain water slate roofs would last the 100+ years they do. You don't see limestone roofs...

Rain water collected from a roof will be soft.

[jgharston]

Yebbut, they're eco wossnames, they'll believe anything you tell them, and if that gets them to go round the loo with some Jif and a scouring sponge all the better.

JGH

[Owain]

Buy a bottle of Mr Muscle Shitty Bog Cleaner.

Print a green 'eco' label and stick it over the hazmat diamonds on the bottle.

Present it to tenants/customers/neighbours/fools with a smile.

Owain