Toilet not up to building regs

Mrs_pbradley936

My house is about 18 years old and I have recently changed my en-suite, was very pleased and asked the chap for a quote to do the downstairs loo. Just a toilet and a small sink in there.


I have noticed over the years that is does not flush very well and I often have to fill a bucket and tip it from a height to make it flush. So we tend not to use it much because of this.


Anyway the chap had a look at it and said that the toilet should never have got through the building regulations inspection because the waste is not in the right place. It ought to go down or back (so he said) but mine goes horizontal for about 18 inches before it goes down.


It he right? If so what can I do about it?

Furts

It sounds like your plumber can alter the drain so that you get a gentle, even, fall from the back of the toilet to the point of entry into the drain.

Horizontal foul drainage is a bad idea, particularly coming off the back of the toilet - indeed it sounds like it might even be running slighty up hill from your symptons - which is worse.

It may need nothing more complex than a flexi-bend, and piece of connected pipe - although I am not a fan of flexi-bends, preferring solid walled bends where possible.

molerat

The WC in my bathroom has a 90 degree bend and a 6ft horizontal before it reaches the downpipe, never given me any problems even with some in the household thinking half a loo roll is fair game. It obviously has the correct fall though.

Furts

Furts wrote: »

It sounds like your plumber can alter the drain so that you get a gentle, even, fall from the back of the toilet to the point of entry into the drain.

Horizontal foul drainage is a bad idea, particularly coming off the back of the toilet - indeed it sounds like it might even be running slighty up hill from your symptons - which is worse.

It may need nothing more complex than a flexi-bend, and piece of connected pipe - although I am not a fan of flexi-bends, preferring solid walled bends where possible.

Of course, I am assuming the drain is suitable once the toilet waste has entered it, and that the plumber checked this. (He did... did he not?) If it does not have a suitable fall, or it is partially blocked, or has an unsuitable bend, or is backfalling...then correcting the toilet with a flexi and Multi-Kwik, or whatever, will not resolve OP issues.

Hence fellow forum user molerat is spot on!

squeekswhenwalking

Is your cistern filling up to a high enough level to flush properly?