Fitting Toilet Floor Soil Pipe

If your toilet is being fitted onto a tiled floor then place it on an old towel to prevent it from marking the tiles.

Fitting toilet floor soil pipe. Most loos come with screws and caps to secure the pan to the floor but you may not get anything to secure the cistern to the wall. Here s a question people ask sometimes does a toilet need a vent and the answer is yes your toilet has to have a vent. And this fitting is a very wise choice under a 4 inch flange. And the size of this vent pipe depends on your local plumbing code.

The type of toilet dictates how this connection can be made. Cleaning up the waste pipe connector and lubricating with a little soapy water makes the connecting process easier. There should be a water inlet valve and a flush mechaninsm with the toilet these need fitting in the cistern first. For example a close coupled toilet can be connected horizontally vertically or to the left or right whereas a back to wall.

Your new toilet will come in two pieces the cistern and the toilet pan. The soil pipe is the outlet through which toilet waste is flushed and needs to be connected to the soil stack which is the outflow pipe for your sewage. Drainage sales representative explains the different ways to connect a waste pipe to a 110mm soil pipe using a boss adaptor. The difference in the pipe diameters and the rigidity of cast iron soil and vent pipes makes it very difficult to cut into them to add a new toilet or even the waste pipe.

The toilet s vent size.