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PostPosted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:58 pm 
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We have just had a new toilet fitted but there is slight leak from where the pan connector goes into the cast iron pipe. The old toilet we had used to sit on a wooden plinth because the cast iron pipe was too high to meet the pan connector.

When the new toilet was installed the cast iron branch was cut back and the pan connector goes straight into the end of the pipe - is this the right way of doing it ? I think the outer diameter of the cast iron branch is 4"

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Would a multikwik pan connector give a better seal or should one of those rubber fernco type couplings be used ? Thanks.


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That looks like lead not cast iron.

is it soft or hard.

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It is very hard, almost certain it is cast iron.


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Take the pan connector out and clean the inside with a course file and try it in that case.

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thescruff wrote:
Take the pan connector out and clean the inside with a course file and try it in that case.

I removed the old pan connector and found the cast iron pipe was VERY rough and nasty inside so smoothed it all out using a file as suggested and gave it good clean.

I then fitted a new multikwik pan connector - it was a very tight fit but it went in eventually after a struggle. So far so good no sign of any leaks :-)


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So now your a mulitkwik quick fit fitter! :huray:

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