Bathroom plumbing advice

Road_Hog · 2011-12-21T23:32:54+00:00

Right, any help/advice much appreciated. Any advice like get a plumber in, keep it to yourself.Between now an Christmas day (effectively Thursday & Friday), I need to fit a new radiator, toilet and basin.Yhe basin isn't that important and can wait a few days, but I thought I'd ask for the advice in the same thread. If I get time, I'll do all three. I have all three of the items, ready for fitting and have done my research.Radiator, seems fairly simple, replacement is the same width as current radiator. It would seem that you can turn the inlet and out pipe off, unscrew the current rad, PTFE the the new rad and connect it up, without draining the system. Sounds simple, have I got anything wrong?Basin is a little more faffing, have to switch off the water supply (cold is direct mains fed) and drain the system. Use tube cutter to cut existing pipes to taps, so that I can use compression connectors and fit the new taps via the supplied 'tails'.New toilet, this is going to be the bugger. Old toilet is standard tank against the wall, with freshwater piper to the bowl, and plastic connecter for the waste pipe going to a cast iron pipe. Now, the cast iron pipe is the old size (I forget the size, but it is not the size of a modern system/pipe, which I think might be 110mm and this is 90mm). The old toilet sits about a foot away from the wall, the new toilet is one where the tank rests on the back of the bowl and should be up against the wall.I'm going to need a disk cutter to take the waste pipe back, any suggestions (hire, not buy) and what is the best sort of connecting pipe for the waste outlet. I'm hoping that I may get away with cutting the pipe/extending it, using compression connectors, but may have to buy a cheap plumbers torch and solder some short pipework (again any suggestions).