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Moving a sink is cheap. Moving a toilet is not, because the waste line is larger, has less tolerance on fall and has to be vented — and getting it across the floor means opening the ceiling below or building the floor up. Where there is an accessible ceiling underneath, that is straightforward work. Over a slab, or where the joists run the wrong way for the run you need, it becomes a substantially bigger job. We establish which of those you have before quoting, so a relocation is a priced decision rather than a discovery.

Venting is the part homeowners never see and inspectors always look for. Older houses that have been altered piecemeal frequently have fixtures that are wet-vented in ways no longer permitted, or not properly vented at all — which is why traps siphon and drains gurgle. While the walls are open we put the venting right to current code, and replace supply lines back to a sensible point rather than joining new pipework onto corroded galvanised and calling it done.