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How to disguise toilet pipe across hall ceiling

D B
last month

The only way we can get a new upstairs toilet pipe in is to run it just below ground floor ceiling height and ‘box it in’. This means an ugly box across the hall ceiling. In the drawing the toilet pipe position is in red. The blue area in the doorway will have a lowered ceiling, but the main hallway is 2.62m high.

Any clever ideas for disguising the ugly boxing in ?

Anyone used coving or other tricks to do this sort of thing ?

We are thinking to possibly make the box as wide as the two opposing doorways but may still be odd with ceiling going high - lower - high - much lower down the hall.

Grateful for any ideas…

Comments (6)

  • Sarah L
    last month

    Could it not go in the ceiling void? Or are the upstairs floor beams in the wrong direction?

  • D B
    Original Author
    last month

    Upstairs joists run in the right direction. However there is a quarter landing one step down from the main landing. A supporting beam runs under the outer edge of the main landing and across the single step. So messing with this beam is a structural problem and would mean running the pipe over the quarter landing.

  • D B
    Original Author
    last month

    Ceiling joists added in green…

  • D B
    Original Author
    last month

    I suppose an S bend in the pipe (two 45 bends) might be used to bend under the supporting joist and reduce the length of ceiling ‘pierced’ by the pipe. Not sure whether this is allowed though ?

  • PRO
    APk.r
    last month

    Have you thoughtbof installing a macerator ? thenpipework woould then be much smaller

  • D B
    Original Author
    last month

    I have heard macerators are noisy and get blocked with clearing blocks being unpleasant. Friends have recommended against them. Wondered about an 80mm pipe but overall it seems people recommend sticking with 110mm pipe to avoid future problems.

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