Help sourcing a toilet

zenshi

This is not as easy as it sounds! Trying to re vamp the downstairs loo and my head is spinning..... the waste has to go at 90 degrees which is fine and the pipe work is boxed in (not very well) I’m quite fancying a loo  with a concealed cistern in a unit but am really struggling at figuring wether they have the capacity to Accommodate the waste bend. One guy at the plumb shop started talking spigots and lost me. Can anyone advise?!

Jack_Cork

Photos might help

Mutton_Geoff

Take a look at Geberit or Grohe concealed cisterns and you'll see there is plenty of room to angle the soil pipe within the confines of the cistern frame.

theonlywayisup

We have a Geberit system with Roca sanitaryware.  

Rosa_Damascena

This may or may not be helpful, but when revamping my bathrooms recently I was told by my builder not to go for a floating toilet / concealed cistern unit. I then went to his plumbing supplier and bought standard cistern toilets (RAK 600 I think), which required little thought because i was changing the position of the soil stack anyway. If you're getting a professional in consider whether the exit point is amenable to adaptation.

I'd originally just wanted to change the toilet because this was the problem in the bathroom which I'd lived with for 2.5 years....which turned into a full bathroom refurb, plus an en-suite built from scratch. Well worth the cost and aggro, but then I was very lucky with my builder.

NeverTooLate

Rosa_Damascena said:

This may or may not be helpful, but when revamping my bathrooms recently I was told by my builder not to go for a floating toilet / concealed cistern unit.

What was his reason for this?

Rosa_Damascena

NeverTooLate said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

This may or may not be helpful, but when revamping my bathrooms recently I was told by my builder not to go for a floating toilet / concealed cistern unit.

What was his reason for this?

His exact words were to the effect that they are a PITA.

I think the issue was access for if they ever went wrong. I concurred because if a toilet has a problem it's not the kind of thing you can leave for any length of time, you need to get in there and get it sorted fast. As a lay person I feel reasonably confident accessing a cistern on a close coupled unit without doing any damage.

theonlywayisup

Rosa_Damascena said:

NeverTooLate said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

This may or may not be helpful, but when revamping my bathrooms recently I was told by my builder not to go for a floating toilet / concealed cistern unit.

What was his reason for this?

His exact words were to the effect that they are a PITA.

I think the issue was access for if they ever went wrong. I concurred because if a toilet has a problem it's not the kind of thing you can leave for any length of time, you need to get in there and get it sorted fast. As a lay person I feel reasonably confident accessing a cistern on a close coupled unit without doing any damage.

Ours has been in nearly 15 years and the washer needed replacing once.  We bought the washer and fitted it ourselves, simple to get in via the 'letterbox' flush plate.