New sink and toilet - need some advice

xxxpinkladyxxx

Hi

We're getting a new toilet and sink fitted in a couple of weeks. I'm having the bathroom tiled at the same time and they will bit fitting this for me.

So I need to order something ASAP but I have no idea whatsoever about plumbing. The current toilet we have is horrible. It's like the old fashioned ones that has a pipe leading up to the cistern that you can see. We're going to get a close coupled on (I think that's what they're called). The one where the cistern is basically connected to the toilet seat part.

I'm looking on one website and it's asking if I need Essentials WC Pan To Floor Side Fixing Kit and Wirquin Universal Extendable Flexi Pan Connector. Will I need this?

Owain_Moneysaver

Side fixing kit is only required for WCs with lateral (side) fixing holes. Most bolt straight down into the floor. What you'll need depends on whether your floor is wood, concrete, etc.

The pan connector depends on the relationship between your existing soil pipe and the outlet on the WC pan. I think those flexi connectors look really ugly if exposed (and the corrugations always trap dust and stuff) and prefer a back-to-the wall WC with no exposed pipe.

southcoastrgi

^^^^^^^^^^^^

A back to the wall pan is totally different to a close coupled pan & cistern, OP just buy the pan & cistern & leave the soil fittings to your installer

Poppy9

Do what I did. Take a picture of your loo, location of soil pipe, measurements of pipe to wall etc. and go to a plumbers merchant!

For over 15 years no plumbers wanted to replace the loo that had been in the house since it was built in the 1950s. The soil pipe is in a concrete floor and was "too near the back wall" according to plumbers and would need to bring loo out too much so it wouldn't fit in space. We had an awful slimline plastic cistern, in lemon!!

The cistern broke so something had to be done. So off I went with my pictures and measurements!

At the plumber merchant I had limited options as my downstairs loo space is tight so we couldn't bring it out a bit as your knees would have been on the wall! However he found me a back to wall unit and told me to take it home, put it in the space and if it didn't fit he would refund me.

As my other loo was already out my builder friend could place, we could sit on it to try it out and it was perfect.

Wish we had done this years 20 years ago . We even contemplated knocking down walls to make downstairs loo bigger to accommodate a more modern toilet! Most of the plumbers we had to look at job thought it was too difficult a job.