Plumbing waste pipes

Huge coughed up some electrons that declared:

Yes. House i grew up in had some 2" lead pipes. Several for the bath and sink drains and one between the cistern and the loo.

I've seen large diameter copper used too. And iron for a washing machine waste.

Cheers

Tim

Yes, including horrible lead sealing traps which had a small brass screw stopper for clearing the gunge out. The screw would corrode and then it would be very difficult to unscrew it without making the lead U-bend twist and collapse.

Yes, but copper more recently.

Seems to me that they used to try to avoid long internal wastes much more. Get it out of the building and into (probably) iron asap. I seem to remmeber the house I grew up in had only a very short run from bath/basin into hopper. Maybe the cost of the lead and/or copper contributed to this?

I guess that copper was cheaper then! :o)

They also had fewer baths and bogs, and they were where the builder bloody well put them, convenient for the waste gully outside, not where her indoors, Sarah Beenie and Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all thought it was fashionable to put them :-)

Lead or iron barrel. Later often copper. You'll still see copper used where you need more strength - like in some commercial premises, pubs etc.

And they had to allow for the fireplace in the bathroom as well (if it was posh enough!)

But one thing is much worse about plastic - noise. I remember really noticing the difference when they started to be used. Suppose we have all got used to that now... :-(

Barrel? Wossat?

My bathroom was done in 1.5" copper, unioned into an internal 6" cast iron waste pipe. No chance of shifting the union in the waste pipe so had to convert plastic to copper - fortunately the 40mm compression covered the range.

Sinks had a big screw in the waste trap. About threequarter inch. Bit like a sump plug on a car. They were a bugger if the trap screw jammed. You could rip the whole thing out trying to undo it.

You still find copper waste in a few houses around here.