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Toilet Overflow and Soil Vent Pipe
We are having some building work done, and the toilet overflow has to be moved,
One of the workerd has suggested turning it into the Soil Vent Pipe.
I'm not too well up on building regulations, but I thought this was illegal.
Is there anyone on here who can confirm or deny this?.
Thanks.
One of the workerd has suggested turning it into the Soil Vent Pipe.
I'm not too well up on building regulations, but I thought this was illegal.
Is there anyone on here who can confirm or deny this?.
Thanks.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I don't agree totally with you stuelwell. The outlet (not overflow) from my upstairs toilet goes into the soil pipe and there aren't any smells coming back into the loo and that's been the position for over forty years. I still say that an over flow from the cistern only needs to go through the wall; unless one has a modern cistern with an in-built overflow: which is good advice from dilligaf and Doc Spock.
I would still like to be certain whether we are really talking about an overflow pipe because terence7556 has raised a good point..........Best wishes all.....Ron.
I would still like to be certain whether we are really talking about an overflow pipe because terence7556 has raised a good point..........Best wishes all.....Ron.
Hi vivandorron,
What I needed to know, was if it was illegal or not, which it appears it is, I hadn't thought about smells, but of course, that has to be taken into consideration.
Whats happening, is that we live in a small two bed Bungalow, and are having a Conservatory built, unfortunately, the toilet overflow at present, will be in the Conservatory, which is a problem, and one of the workers made this suggestion as a solution, but reding the above posts again, the first two seem to have covered it.
What I needed to know, was if it was illegal or not, which it appears it is, I hadn't thought about smells, but of course, that has to be taken into consideration.
Whats happening, is that we live in a small two bed Bungalow, and are having a Conservatory built, unfortunately, the toilet overflow at present, will be in the Conservatory, which is a problem, and one of the workers made this suggestion as a solution, but reding the above posts again, the first two seem to have covered it.
vivandorron. if the overflow was to be put into the soil stack you WILL get the smell of the drains coming in . obviously the 110mm outlet from the toilet has to go into the soil stack and the pan will form a trap to stop any smells coming back , but seen as an overflow pipe has no trap smells will come back. now there are fittings you can put on overflow pipe which will cause a trap.
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