Drilling a hole in a toilet pan.

[mike912]

I have purchased a VP Vermont Close Coupled Toilet where the pan conceals the water supply pipe behind the pan and butt up against the wall. The water supply pipe, and waste pipe are at a distance where the water supply pipe cannot concealed behind the pan, so my thoughts are to drill a hole in the side of the pan to fit a flexible connector through it.
Has any done this before, is this advisable to do this?

thanks in advance for your advice.

 

[joni os]

Drilling pan not recommended. Is it possible to bring supply pipe up through flooring or recess in wall.

 

[Dutchie79]

Mike,

no way. there must be some other way out of it - track the wall and re tile - or a longer flexi on the mains supply to toilet.

drilling it is the absolute last resort. you will spend hours getting through the glaze then drill it right till about it's just about to appear on the other side and it will break.

my advice is get a different toilet if all other options exhausted.

good luck

 

[Unregistered]

Guys first of all thanks for your speedy replies.

joni os the water supply pipe current comes directly up about 3 inches from the floor and away from the wall, which has had new floor tiles laid 2 weeks ago. Oversite made by myself.
I purchased a cloak room suite from ebay, and overlooked these details.

Dutchie79 I have come across this site that show you how to drill through pan with success using a diamond Holesaw Drill bit. This would be my last resort.
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[Best]

Get a couple of new floor tiles and bite the bullet & remove the one or two you need to get at the pipe to reposition it. Just be careful not to chip any other tiles beside the ones you are removing.

 

[drip-dry]

Would do as Best suggests...going to look like a pigs ear otherwise.....

 

[lame plumber]

you'll be sat there one day, and coz you drilled through your pan you may well find your rear is shredded by broken porcelain shards!

 

[Duker996]

Not for me sorry!

 

[Gray0689]

I've had to do this before for a back to wall pan
Just used a grinder with a fine tillers disk and cut a tiny slot for the pipe to go inside as high as I could so couldn't be seen

 

[Ray Stafford]

365 drills the forum sponsor have a youtube video on this

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[leelister6]

Got to be quicker, tidier and potentially cheaper to grind grout out of tiles, redo pipe and replace tiles. If a customer asked me to drill the pan I wouldn't even contemplate it!

 

[brum]

Same as it will look rubbish lift tiles and repipe..brum

 

[Fallon1982]

If it was me doing the job, I would re-run all the piecework so it pokes out directly behind the pan wether it be in the wall or under the floor. Makes me cringe just thinking about drilling a hole through the pan itself!
Then get yourself a decent size flexi tap connector and flexi pan connector so you can make your connections and push the pan back to the wall - at least if there are any problems in the future you can easily access the pipework aswell.

 

[stevetheplumber]

no different to drilling a tile just take it slow

 

[peterwhayward]

Had to do it once before, turned out very well using a diamond hole saw and even looked pretty good..................Needs must, sometimes.

 

[drip-dry]

Had to do it once before, turned out very well using a diamond hole saw and even looked pretty good..................Needs must, sometimes.

It can be done on a quality pan but do not think that is the argument here...if you look at the wc and imagine the side drilled and the cold feed going in the side..it will look terrible in this case..better to,spend a few hours and done correctly
You also have the worry if the pan does fail....you could be looking at a major come back...

 

[Neil K]

Don't do it mate..bye bye toilet. Do what Best said ^^^

 

[peterwhayward]

Sorry but cant see a picture of the pan. Can you?. Personally I cant see how a neat 30mm dia hole made in the side of the pan can destroy the integrity of it. If its been fitted on a firm base with silicon round the bottom of it to take in to account any high or low spots I would guarantee any job I done. But that's me.

 

[drip-dry]

Sorry but cant see a picture of the pan. Can you?. Personally I cant see how a neat 30mm dia hole made in the side of the pan can destroy the integrity of it. If its been fitted on a firm base with silicon round the bottom of it to take in to account any high or low spots I would guarantee any job I done. But that's me.

well there is a great new thing out called ''google'',think it may catch on..just jot in the name of something and up it pops..
and secondly you can not guarantee any drilling through a pan as you did not manufacturer it ,so have no idea of stress points.not seen a wc fitting instructions anywhere that says drill pottery anywhere you like to bodge in cold feed .. so that's you being irresponsible and leaving customers in false sense of security...as said ,i can drill but would inform custard of risks involved..that is what you call being responsible..that's me
and silicon supporting/allowing high and low points....nuff said...have a good weekend.....

 

[Gray0689]

well there is a great new thing out called ''google'',think it may catch on..just jot in the name of something and up it pops..
and secondly you can not guarantee any drilling through a pan as you did not manufacturer it ,so have no idea of stress points... so that's you being irresponsible and leaving customers in false sense of security...as said ,i can drill but would inform custard of risks involved..that is what you call being responsible..that's me
and silicon supporting/allowing high and low points....nuff said...have a good weekend.....

Lol you will lose that dummy its spat that far away

 

[drip-dry]

:wink_smile:

 

[peterwhayward]

well there is a great new thing out called ''google'',think it may catch on..just jot in the name of something and up it pops..
and secondly you can not guarantee any drilling through a pan as you did not manufacturer it ,so have no idea of stress points.not seen a wc fitting instructions anywhere that says drill pottery anywhere you like to bodge in cold feed .. so that's you being irresponsible and leaving customers in false sense of security...as said ,i can drill but would inform custard of risks involved..that is what you call being responsible..that's me
and silicon supporting/allowing high and low points....nuff said...have a good weekend.....

Wow, feel better do you?. Yeh silicon round the base of the pan to 1) make it "pee proof and 2) to take in to account any irregularities of the pan (which are always there, you can always google that). I always guarantee my work. Don't you?. Nuff said.

 

[brum]

Don't do it mate..bye bye toilet. Do what Best said ^^^

Totally agree..brum

 

[Elgordo]

You can do anything but do not drill a hole in a toilet pan , raise the bar for yourself and get a tiler to finish off the job . You will be a better man for it .....