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Installing a bathroom far from the soil pipe
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Looking for some advice on whether this is possible.
I want to move a bathroom from the ground floor back of the house to the first floor front of the house, and I don't know what to do about the soil pipe. Our main waste pipe runs under our our back garden. The main street sewer runs under the road in front of the house, but we don't have a connection to that from the front of the house, as our waste pipe connects to it several houses along.
We've spoken to several builders who have all advised different things:
- Dropping the soil pipe through the dining room and boxing it off (we can't run it between the joists to the back of the house as our stairs get in the way)
- Running the soil pipe along the side of the house as we're end of terrace
- Getting a new front connection to the main sewer
We're not keen on the first option, our neighbours probably wouldn't be keen on having a soil pipe installed along the side of their garden, and we have no idea how feasible or expensive it would be to have a front connection to the sewer.
Has anyone done this? Has anyone got to this stage and decided it wasn't worth the hassle?
Does anyone have any better ideas?
Thanks for any help
I want to move a bathroom from the ground floor back of the house to the first floor front of the house, and I don't know what to do about the soil pipe. Our main waste pipe runs under our our back garden. The main street sewer runs under the road in front of the house, but we don't have a connection to that from the front of the house, as our waste pipe connects to it several houses along.
We've spoken to several builders who have all advised different things:
- Dropping the soil pipe through the dining room and boxing it off (we can't run it between the joists to the back of the house as our stairs get in the way)
- Running the soil pipe along the side of the house as we're end of terrace
- Getting a new front connection to the main sewer
We're not keen on the first option, our neighbours probably wouldn't be keen on having a soil pipe installed along the side of their garden, and we have no idea how feasible or expensive it would be to have a front connection to the sewer.
Has anyone done this? Has anyone got to this stage and decided it wasn't worth the hassle?
Does anyone have any better ideas?
Thanks for any help
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So the neighbours garden is alongside your house? I can't see them being that bothered to be honest, it will be high up and is unlikely to cause them any problems. Aesthetically it will not be in the normal field of vision, but you could paint it to match the house or use white pipe to limit this.
A new connection the the sewer shouldn't be a major issue but I would thing the actual connection would need to be done by approved contractors so could be costly. You would pay for the work up to an inspection pit on or near the boundary and they would connect this to the main sewer.
I would try to redirect the soil to your existing shared sewer as this will be cheaper and easier.0 -
Couldn't you do option 2, soil pipe front to back, underground?Tall, dark & handsome. Well two out of three ain't bad.0
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