I watched the video, bought the bits, did the job. Brilliant, concise video that shows exactly what to do and completely took my uncertainty away. Many thanks for this!
Great video, which helped me insert a new drain junction. The collars I bought had small lugs which stopped them being pushed all the way on to the pipe, which I had to remove with a wood chisel.
Thanks, glad it helped. The collars you had were just normal pipe joins - you need slip collars which don’t have the bit in the middle. You sound pretty resourceful though and got around the problem!
@@MattBotwood just had a look on screwfix and the one you bought can be used as a slip coupling too as it just has lugs which you chiseled off, so it was all correct what you did! I actually didn’t know they did one which could be used as a joiner or a slip coupling so you’ve taught me something 😃
Good stuff buddy. So was this a plastic pipe you were exposing? Back when I took up my concrete side path I basically destroyed the original clay pipe because the concrete had obviously clung to it over the years and clay pipe was brittle under the slightest pressure. Was there a way to avoid breaking the clay pipe? Only because I’m about to do the back garden path running along the back side of my house.
Cheers! Yea was plastic pipe, they're surprisingly tough. The clay ones like you mention are so brittle sometimes, it musth have been so hard to work with them back in the day. All I could say is just go careful when digging around them (easy to say I know). Sometimes there is just no way to avoid breaking them if you have concrete around them
Hi Sam, iwas to add a w.c. downstains so can you tell me the names of the fittings from the pipe in the ground through to the w.c. pan . there's so many fittings
If you are adding a W.C onto a section of pipe you should really put a manhole where it meets the pipe work outside. Without a diagram I couldn’t tell you exactly what fittings you’d need
Hi Sam, great video. I need to do exactly this to an existing poo pipe. Is the pipe in the video a poo pipe? I just want to check as I am worried that when adding the T piece in it could create small gaps inside the pipe which could cause a blockage, is this something to worry about? Many thanks!
Hi, thanks. Yea the main run of the pipe is for foul waste and I see what you mean about little gaps when you add the t-piece in and the slip collars but I have had no issues with doing this so far - just make your joins as tight as possible. If you are adding a new toilet from the house and joining in like this I would put a manhole in instead of the T-piece so you have a rodding/inspection point.
If you’re joining onto existing like this then you have to go with what you’ve got. There will be specific depths for new drainage but it will differ depending on if it’s foot or vehicle traffic. And then other times it’s what you’re connecting into that determines it
If it’s a brick chamber I’d smash a few bricks out and cut the 110mm pipe to suit. You’d then bench (mortar) around the pipe where it comes into the manhole making sure there’s no sharp edges on the new pipe and it’s got a smooth entrance to the manhole
