As many of you will know I am in the middle of a full bathroom refit at home, which I have been on with for a couple of weeks!

I bought a toilet pan from a seller on ebay and I am having real difficulties getting a pan connector to fit onto it.

Without going and taking a picture of it I can tell you that it is tapered and when ever I push a toilet pan connector onto it the damn thing just springs right back off. I have tried four different pan connectors and they all do the same thing. I have fitted a few toilets in the past and just pushed the pan connector right on, but because the ceramic part on this toilet is tapered the pan connectors spring right back off.

Has anyone come across this before and does anyone have an suggestions on how to fix a pan connector to it?

I have considered using plumbers gold around the existing seal but this would mean holding it until the plumbers gold cures or making something to clamp it in position.

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De-grease it with some white sprites, spigot and fitting.

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Thanks John, I'll give that a try tomorrow

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Makes the EDPM sticky so you need to get it together quickly or use water as a lubricant.

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Ok, thanks

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You didn't use soap on it did you??

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No, I just pushed it on. Only to have it spring off each time

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better post a pic if it don't work, but it should.

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The cheap bigs can be a birch to seal. As Scruff says make sure it's clean and use a genuine multikwik connector not a bee & poo special. If its being boxed in can you get a wedge behind it? There's not usually enough play on the pipe for it to slide off unless you're using a flexi ?

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It's a B&Q flexi I am afraid.

I'm going to see if I can get any of the connectors to fit once I have cleaned it with white spirits.

The toilet waste runs under two vanity units before connecting to the soil pipe. I had to use a flexi to connect to the soil pipe as a soil elbow was too high to fit under the units.

I'm off to bodge it now

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I cleaned it with white spirits and it made little difference. I then cleaned it using a scotchbrite pad but that had little effect.

I decided to use some plumbers gold as an adhesive and run a bead around the face of the connector. I then clamped the bstard in position for 5 hours before moving it.


Then I checked it and it seemed to be stuck

So I put it in position and fixed it to the floor, then connected the flush pipe.

Then the f*cking soil connector sprung off again.

It's fixed to the floor now so I don't want to move it again.

I'm off to the plumbers in the morning to try and get a Multikwik connector. At least now it is fixed to the floor I can push something on and wedge it in!

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Can you post a pic.

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I'll try and sort one out in a couple of hours

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I'm not in a rush, up to me neck in work at the minute.

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This is the connector under the pan-



If I put a straight edge across the back of the toilet the pan connector is set back 55mm -



This is the flexi pan connector when connected, but after a few seconds it springs back off-

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