Hi all,
The talk of cast iron soil pipes reminded me that Mum would like to replace the corrugated translucent fibreglass conservatory roof with something that was cleaner and more translucent (light).
It's a simple flat lowish angle slope across the full width of the house and bounded within 3 walls (either side and the back of the house).
Dad built a substantial timber frame joist 'grid' that would be ideal for supporting a Polycarbonate / ally glazing bar DIY roof 'kit' but the problem is the intrusion of the soil pipe that runs up the back of the house and to make things worse, also the angled soil pipe from the upstairs WC (e.g. it's not just a straight pipe going though).
You can't really change the pitch of the roof as it has to follow the fall of the brickwork on either end and to go higher to get over the WC stub would take it way too high and lower would probably reduce the fall too much (and again, look wrong compared with the brick end walls).
Neighbours who also have a similar setup have constructed various shaped and flashing coated 'boxes' that try to engulf the pipe and pipe to wall gap to make it all waterproof. ;-(
So, I was wondering if there was some modern / clever way of dealing with such a pipework intrusion into the roof (and wallplate) and without re-routing the soil pipework of course. ;-)
Cheers, T i m