can you move a toilet to another position?

rustyboy21

When I had my bathrooms done 2 years ago, They had to move my loo approx 4 foot to the other side of the same wall ( external ) simple job, 4 foot of extra soil pipe set at a gradient and fitted to vertical part of existing soil pipe.

Upstairs one, moved from on the landing into a spare bedroom making it into new larger bathroom, but on same wall, slightly higher than what was at on landing. There again external soil pipe was set at gradient to existing soil pipe into the ground. ( Old 1880's semi) Apart from water pipes re routing, which needed doing for the rest of the bathroom anyway, was told it was a really easy job to do.

keystone

madjay wrote: »

You could use a Saniflo toilet waste macerator pump and you would not have to mess aroud moving the soil down pipe and you can put the toilet where you want

Invention of the devil together with flexi pan connectors which come a close second. But madjay is correct you don't have to mess around moving the soil pipe what you do have to do for a year and a day thereafter is mess about cleaning it out when it gums up, develops a mind of its own and wages a vendetta on you for having the temerity to install it in your home.

Horrid, horrid things. Don't even consider it for a microsecond.

Cheers

wolfehouse

macman wrote: »

Which wall is is it currently on and which wall do you want to move it to? What distance away?
Generally WC's are most easily sited on the external wall, for easy access to the soil stack.
Running the supply pipe around is the easier part.

i should have said it's a b listed victorian tenament
ground floor
toilet i believe was an afterthought- in those days they must have had an external communal toilet.
it is currently on a wall whose other side appears to be the communal entrance hall (but no pipe i can see there???)

she would like a bath under the window (corner?), so toilet and sink elsewhere. the whole space is long(ish) and very very narrow. (presentybath is a shorter than usual one)
with a sink under the bathroom window on the backyard facing wall.

bobthedambuilder

wolfehouse wrote: »

i should have said it's a b listed victorian tenament
ground floor
toilet i believe was an afterthought- in those days they must have had an external communal toilet.
it is currently on a wall whose other side appears to be the communal entrance hall (but no pipe i can see there???)

she would like a bath under the window (corner?), so toilet and sink elsewhere. the whole space is long(ish) and very very narrow. (presentybath is a shorter than usual one)
with a sink under the bathroom window on the backyard facing wall.

OK it sounds like you can't connect to an external stack by just going through the wall in another place. The existing toilet probably connects directly into a drain on / under the floor. Go back to my previous post (#7) and see whether a boxout would work. I've done it this way, and you can actually make a nice feature of the boxout.