Silicone Gap?

[The Medway Handyman]

Could anyone advise if this gap between the cistern & the wall is too big to fill with silicone?

[Clot]

Quiet or Housy Bingo for instance and collect several of those low priced bags of silica that they sell for producing concrete.

Prior to visit said shed, measure the height from the ground to the top of the tank and then just use some simple maths whilst at the shed to determine how many of their excellent bags of s(a)ilica you need to fill the space.

You might not find that there is an exact integer fit - no need to worry, they've thought of your possible problem. Just ask for a dozen tubes of silicone to level the surface - they even have colours to suit many circumstances.

HTH

[Dave Liquorice]

Just pack the gap with some screwed up newspaper and it will be fine.

[John Rumm]

dozen size D jubbley replacements ought to do it!

[somebody]

In message , The Medway Handyman writes

Whilst you have long been doing a good job in your chosen field, I am slightly concerned that your experience as a handy man is failing you here.

That isn't a gap. It is clearly a public right of way.

If you don't have the requisite experience in footpath, access and right of way laws, you could be heading into a minefield.

If on the other hand you feel confidant enough with the legalities, you could just puncture a can of expanding foam behind it, evacuate the room and trim off the bits you don't need the day after.

I have to be honest though, there are a few bods on u.l.m who would get right upset if you blocked it. There are probably horses, cars, carts and even football teams who rely on that right of way. Even the highways agency need permission to block off a trunk route.

;-) Someone

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "The Medway Handyman" saying something like:

Anyway, if it was me I'd look at filling it in with a ply shelf or something similar, tiled to finish.

[the_constructor]

I thought it was April fools days at first ! That is one hell of a gap. I cant understand why the OP didn't think to cut the waste pipe that goes through the wall..... James

[The Medway Handyman]

Odd, but that wasn't on the list of jobs she wanted done, she hadn't even mentioned it!

I was asked to tighten up a loose monoblock basin mixer next to it.

Bathroom was put in & tiled 6 months ago by a 'bathroom specialist'. Apparently they said it had to be like that because of the soil pipe. The room was gutted prior to installation.

I'm going back to apply the Curmugeons suggestion.

[Dave Liquorice]

I'm not sure which is worse the "bathroom specialists" for that standard(*) of work or the home owner for being so dim as to accept it.

I take it that the soil pipe doesn't exit horizontally across the gap and through the wall but is vertical thus the bowl/cistern can't be shifted back the 6" to the wall. You can get offset vertical connectors but they won't go back that far unless they have just used a bend.

Have a look at McAlpine WC-CONQ or WC-CONQP (adjustable height):

other WC connector manufacturers have something similar.

[NoSpam]

It may just be that they've used a P-shaped pan connector whereas a swan-neck would solve the problem.

Dave

[ARWadworth]

So problem solved. But why did you not take photos when you worked in the brothel :-)

Adam

[Si]

In message , ARWadworth writes

He were too busy. ;-)

[Andy Hall]

Oh, he's not still doing jobs there, is he....?

[The Medway Handyman]

I wondered that as well.

Indeed, the WC's outlet is vertical, going into the soil pipe collar which emerges from the floor.

Could have been done easily when the room had been gutted, but now everything is tiled & the floor is down its too late.

[Dave Liquorice]

Well not that easily if the floor is solid. I'm hoping that the WC-CONQ that I have will allow the bowl/cistern I have for the cottage bathroom to sit far enough back. It should do within 5mm or so.

Does appear that way depending on what the floor covering is and was it laid around or under the bowl foot. I suspect from the leaving of a 6" gap they will have fitted the floor covering around rather than under...

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Andy Hall saying something like:

Payment in kind is fine up to a point.

[Clot]

Another satisfied customer?