Lifting a Toilet Pan about 50mm

[echnidna]

I need to lift a toilet pan about 50mm in height,
Is there a pvc fitting available so I can extend the height of the outside pipe?

[silentC]

Is it a P-trap loo? What's outside, clay or PVC? You'll be hard pressed getting 50mm, you really need a socket and they are at least 100mm tall from memory.

[echnidna]

Its an s trap.
The outside pipe is pvc.
If I get stuck then I'll have to use a socket and lift the pan 100mm

Thanks Silent.

[Termite]

I need to lift a toilet pan about 50mm in height,

What's letting you down Bob, aim, eyesight, or natural shrinkage.

[Auld Bassoon]

What's letting you down Bob, aim, eyesight, or natural shrinkage.

[echnidna]

What's letting you down Bob, aim, eyesight, or natural shrinkage.

Well, this old joint looks like the house that Jack built.
And every resident after him has just bodged things together.
The loo is in an enclosed back verandah and the 1 1/2" thick concrete floor has sunk.

I'll expose the main pipe tomorrow, with a bit of luck I can just redo the pvc fittings.

So to get back to Termites hijack,
I suppose the floor has suffered from natural shrinkage.

But my pipes stand to attention as required. :eek: :eek:

[journeyman Mick]

Bob,
there's repair sleeves for 100mm pipe. It comes in two halves with grooves for rubber seals at both ends. the two halves of the sleeve have half dovetail keys on them over which you slide a dovetail socket to draw and lock the two halves together. You would cut the pipe, lift the pan, slip the rubber seals onto the pipe (one each for the top and bottom ends of the pipe), assemble the two halves over the join locating the rubber seals in their grooves and then hammer the dovetail sockets home. You'd do it in less time than it took me to type this. No idea what they're called.

Mick

[duckman]

Bob,
there's repair sleeves for 100mm pipe. It comes in two halves with grooves for rubber seals at both ends. the two halves of the sleeve have half dovetail keys on them over which you slide a dovetail socket to draw and lock the two halves together. You would cut the pipe, lift the pan, slip the rubber seals onto the pipe (one each for the top and bottom ends of the pipe), assemble the two halves over the join locating the rubber seals in their grooves and then hammer the dovetail sockets home. You'd do it in less time than it took me to type this. No idea what they're called.

Mick

Around here, my part of Victoria, they're called "sewer repair couplings" or "100 mm repair coupling". Reece Plumbing have got plenty of them.

There are a at least a couple of different styles, one using plastic dowels in lieu of the dovetails that Mick has described and another that uses a couple of very large hose clamps.