Ballache of a job replacing a WC

[R D S]

Putting a bog in a room that used to have one should be a simple task, you'd think. (In a shop premises we took on a couple of years ago, upstairs gutted and largely derelict)

I decided to run a new mains water pipe, shoved the pan into the soil pipe, flushed, plainly a blockage. The soil pipe had been 'capped' with tea towels which I removed (I know, what a ###ing pro) so my concern was that one had traveled.

Much plunging later and we were flushing, game on. Except the flush was going into the ceiling below :( What a mess!

Long story short, there were 2 pipes bossed into the soil stack*, left open when the place had been gutted and upon cutting out this section there was a dishcloth just slightly downstream of the above restricting the downward flow.

So my advice would be to replace a soil stack (or sections of) that has anything of unknown provenance bossed into it.

*Not immediately obvious, they were bossed into the rear.

[Brian Gaff (Sofa)]

Was the name of the original company, Bodgit and run by any chance? Brian

[newshound]

Hope you feel better now! Nothing like a good rant and a couple of pints after a day like that :-)

[R D S]

Honestly, if ever I have said "should be done in 10 minutes" and been forced to eat my words...

One day, will all the jobs be done? :)

[R D S]

This place was 'refurbished' at the behest of the previous owner about 6 years ago.

It repeatedly stands out as an example of why I do everything myself. Absolute cowboys.

[Tricky Dicky]

When my daughter and SiL moved t?up North, they bought a flat which was part of a first floor warehouse for a large shop below originally. Run ning across the front of the lounge was an extension of the window sills th at effectively made them window seats. This extension morphed into a triang ular TV stand before continuing along portion of the adjacent wall. My daug hter thought the whole thing was an attractive feature but it?s tru e more sinister purpose was revealed when Costa Coffee took over an adjacen t shop and wanted to use the other part of the first floor warehouse as sta ff facilities. The so called feature was no more than the boxing in for nex t doors WC waste pipe. Fortunately, during the planning consultation they m anaged to get Costa to route their waste elsewhere, I really did not fancy sitting there watching TV while somebody?s turds were floating by r ound half the room. The thing is the pipe remained and if at some point the upper storey next door was converted into a flat there would not be the sa me requirement to consult on any alterations and the whole thing could easi ly be restored to its original use, thank god they did not stay long!

Richard