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Soil pipe -- to replace or not to replace
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stronger magnet.
Clay would be an odd choice for connecting to an external soil stack.
Colin Bignell
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Maybe we should have a sweepstake. The suspense is almost making me look forward to cutting into it.
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Not at all. That's what my parents house built in 1953 had: cast stack and a clay branch ...
Iron is /was expensive and plastic didn't exist,..
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Personally I'd remove right back to the stack, including the tee. You could put plastic into the existing flange and pack it or buy a plastic to cast-iron adapter (I'd assume that even if yours is asbestos, it'd still be a similar size).
SteveW
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For 10 years after the war, there was strict rationing of building materials, which lead to some odd practices.
As for plastic, Germany still has some PVC water and waste pipes that were installed between 1936 and 1941. They became available in Britain and America around 1950, when the manufacturing processes had been refined.
Colin Bignell
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I tend to remember PVC as a sixties thing..plastic pakamaks.
50's? airfix toys and thats it.Styrene
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It was actually invented in 1872, but it was not until 1912 that anyone started to look at making it useful and 1926 before they were successful.
Invented in 1839. Commercially produced by BASF in 1930.
Polyethylene (1935) was a vital part of the allied war effort, providing insulation for radar equipment. It was probably the first plastic, other than Bakelite, that most people saw, being used in things like washing up bowls and plastic brooms in the immediate post-war era.
Colin Bignell
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Not sure about that..nylon was very early too and MUCH used as an insulator.
As well as making stockings.
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Nylon was invented about the same time as polyethylene, but AIUI the latter had properties that made it particularly suitable as an insulator when centimetric radar started to be used.
Colin Bignell