How to remove a toilet?

siren13577

I'm having a new bathroom fitted together with a new upstairs toilet, currently we have a downstairs toilet which is quite cold, it's more like an outhouse stuck on the back of the house.

We'd quite like to turn this room into a little storage/utility area especially as we're having a new kitchen also and the space for things like our bin and tumble dryer is being taken up by units, so how would we go about removing this toilet and what would we use for filling the hole it leaves behind? Obviously start by turning the water off but then what?

I'm mindful it's a waste pipe or sewer there so are there any specific things I would need to do to prevent any unpleasant occurances?

Thanks all

1984ReturnsForReal_2

siren13577 wrote: »

I'm having a new bathroom fitted together with a new upstairs toilet, currently we have a downstairs toilet which is quite cold, it's more like an outhouse stuck on the back of the house.

We'd quite like to turn this room into a little storage/utility area especially as we're having a new kitchen also and the space for things like our bin and tumble dryer is being taken up by units, so how would we go about removing this toilet and what would we use for filling the hole it leaves behind? Obviously start by turning the water off but then what?

I'm mindful it's a waste pipe or sewer there so are there any specific things I would need to do to prevent any unpleasant occurances?

Thanks all

You need to know which one it is before people can advise you properly.

Also where does the water come from?

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Is there a plastic pipe about 11cm across coming out the back of your toilet?

ormus

the last one i did, i cut off the soil pipe level with the floor, stuffed a large plastic sheet in the hole and filled it with 4 inches of concrete. it never gave me a problem.
then laid the new concrete floor over the top.

27col

Do what ormus suggests. If it is an old toilet that has been cemented in, just break it up if it cannot be easily removed from the soil pipe. If you do need to break it up, make sure you are wearing goggles as the bits tend to fly, and gloves. Then just fill the end of the pipe with cement. I did once use expanding foam to do this. The water will need to be capped with a stop end or an isolating valve. Unless you come across the water pipe while the kitchen is being done. Then it can be isolated where it tees off the kitchen water supply. If it is has a more modern plastic connection, it can be pulled off from the soil pipe quite easily. It is difficult to be more precise without seeing the situation.

keystone

What Ormus and 27col said between them. ^^

Cheers