Leaking inspection chamber

[Spaniel87]

Not sure if this is relevant for this group, so if not them please delete. We have a leaking inspection chamber that someone has bodged a plastic pipe into it and broke out the original clay pipe. Looking to fix, but question is can I replace the plastic pipe with another plastic pipe and then fix the benching and sealing around the inlet, or should the inlet be in clay pipe and have the plastic pipe connect on the outside of the chamber. I have found it difficult to find a definitive approach so just looking for what peoples opinions are. Thanks.

 

[Stevers]

Your chances of success may depend on whether the socket is damaged on the clay channel. Assuming that's OK, I seem to remember that you could once buy 110mm plastic pipe with a sanded key on it for mortar to bind to, but all I can find at the moment is this salt glaze adaptor that I think could be made to work even better - with a bit (OK lots) of breaking out to fit it:

https://www.beatsons.co.uk/drainage...brett-martin-salt-glaze-socket-adapter-p15542

 

[stuart45]

Your chances of success may depend on whether the socket is damaged on the clay channel. Assuming that's OK, I seem to remember that you could once buy 110mm plastic pipe with a sanded key on it for mortar to bind to, but all I can find at the moment is this salt glaze adaptor that I think could be made to work even better - with a bit (OK lots) of breaking out to fit it:

https://www.beatsons.co.uk/drainage...brett-martin-salt-glaze-socket-adapter-p15542

You might have thinking of this one.

Brett Martin Underground Pipe Salt Glaze Spigot Adaptor - for Clay Spigot | Drainage Superstore®

This Underground Pipe Salt Glaze Spigot Adaptor from Brett Martin is designed for use with a clay spigot. With different pipe diameters available for purcha...

www.drainagesuperstore.co.uk

 

[Stevers]

You might have thinking of this one.

Brett Martin Underground Pipe Salt Glaze Spigot Adaptor - for Clay Spigot | Drainage Superstore®

This Underground Pipe Salt Glaze Spigot Adaptor from Brett Martin is designed for use with a clay spigot. With different pipe diameters available for purcha...

www.drainagesuperstore.co.uk

That's the sort of thing, but I haven't been able to find similar intended for a salt glaze socket. My time in timber mills and behind the counter in Builders Merchants finished nearly forty years ago, and there have been a lot of changes in what's available in that time.

https://www.drainagesuperstore.co.uk/product/15m-plain-end-channel-pipe-110mm.html
This is out of stock at Drainage Superstore, but is available elsewhere, and is the sort of thing I remember for brick built access chambers or 'manholes' as we innocently called them. The end of one of these with an extra connector might do, but would be a more expensive and wasteful option than that rather neat all plastic salt glaze socket adaptor.