The mammy wants a bidet! With pictures.

seeing_ie

Gutted an ensuite bathroom at the parents and the Mammy wants a bidet where the shower tray used to be. Fancy!

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Managed to source a bidet so now it's just a question of how best to connect it to the waste pipe and water supply.
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The old shower waste pipe will have to be cut so that the bidet can sit close to the wall, it's also a slightly different size to the waste pipe on the bidet.

I'm hoping to find some kind of flexible connector to mate the two waste pipes.


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The two water supply pipes are set in concrete and aren't that flexible so I was thinking of trying to mate them directly to the bottom of the tap assembly.
That'd mean removing the copper pipes connected to the taps at the moment.
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All suggestions welcome. No rush, loads of painting to do in the meantime.

Joey the lips

You seem to have everything in order. Just cut the pipe back and use an 1.1/2 - 1.1/4" reducer and a flexi trap. You will then have enough flexability to move the bidet in and out in the future. Leave a little on the waste pipe just in case you decided to change it back to a bath. That way you have something to grip.

On the water connections. You can cut back the pex and just use the flexis on the taps to connect to them

seeing_ie

Beautiful, that's just what I was looking for Joey.

Heading to the plumbing supply tomorrow to get those bits. At least I'll sound like I know what I'm talking about:D

seeing_ie

Coming back to this one again, the waste pipe coming from the wall in the second photo was heated/melted to bend it slightly in places.
It isn't perfectly circular now.

Any pro tips to make sure I can get a watertight seal when I cut it and attach other plumbing parts to it?

yoshytoshy

If it was me I'd cut the pipe closer to the wall and use two 45 fittings to get the height I needed.

seeing_ie

yoshytoshy wrote: »

If it was me I'd cut the pipe closer to the wall and use two 45 fittings to get the height I needed.

Actually ended up getting two 45 fittings and a length of pipe instead of the flexi trap.
Only because they didn't have the flexi trap in stock tbh.

I'm running into trouble though because after cutting the waste pipe, I can't fit the 1.1/2 - 1.1/4" reducer onto it because the waste pipe was heated/melted slightly to bend it.
It was previously a drain pipe for a shower tray.

Currently waiting to get a blowtorch or something to heat the waste pipe so I can get the reducer on to it.

Also considering going back to Joey's suggestion of the flexi trap to have a little wiggle room when I'm fixing the bidet to the ground.

yoshytoshy

seeing_ie wrote: »

I'm running into trouble though because after cutting the waste pipe, I can't fit the 1.1/2 - 1.1/4" reducer onto it because the waste pipe was heated/melted slightly to bend it.
It was previously a drain pipe for a shower tray.

Currently waiting to get a blowtorch or something to heat the waste pipe so I can get the reducer on to it.

Also considering going back to Joey's suggestion of the flexi trap to have a little wiggle room when I'm fixing the bidet to the ground.

Not quite clear on what you are doing ,but reducers need to be glued into fittings. I.E. You'd usually purchase a glue on socket and glue the reducer into it.

Joey the lips

i would have never heated the pipe on this application. If something went wrong you would have reduced room to play with. It seems crazy for no more than 10 euro in parts to get it right.

Each to there own. It will be very difficult to get the reducer to seal in a distorted pipe as there is a vacuum created by the water decending in the house you are in danger of loosing the seal.

Then again using plently of wavin weld will only ensure that the pipe never comes off.

I really think the flexi trap is the only way to go on this one.

seeing_ie

Couldn't get a seal on the distorted waste pipe (coming out of the wall) in picture 2 when I cut it, couldn't even get the reducer on.

Got a soft flexi trap and glued it on with pvc weld.

Thanks for the replies lads, I'll probably be back again next weekend when I've to connect the taps and fix the bidet to the ground:cool: