Hide old pipes - toilet

[Albireo]

Hello!
I'm in the process of installing new water pipes to a toilet.
This means that some old pipes are now protruding through the floor..


How should / can these be handled in the best way?
Leaving them without action - not very nice.
Just cutting them off flush with the floor doesn't seem very neat or good either.
I would like to seal the hole with something "discreet" or nice.

What options are there?

 

[TheGame]

Cut off along the floor and cover up?

 

[Albireo]

Cover with what?
(considered various screws, but don't know if they will hold/work)
Carriage bolt / Cover washer / Slotted screw


Then it's probably good if water can't run down the pipe too easily?

 

[Intet]

A piece of klinker/tile

 

[Albireo]

I have no "bit" of the existing floor.
To fabricate such a small fitting piece from other tiles - Is it even possible?
But not a completely wrong idea - if it were possible.

 

[Intet]

I have no "bit" of the existing floor.
To manufacture such a small fitting piece from other tiles - Is it even possible?
But not a completely bad idea - if it was possible

Buy a similar one and saw it to the appropriate size

 

[Albireo]

"Saw"...? (with what?)
How is tile handled?

 

[Intet]

With a tile saw or cutter. Google it. Costs a few hundred SEK.

 

[Claes Sörmland]

Copper pipes are indeed soft compared to steel. Cut along the floor with a saw and make the pipe disappear with a step drill:

https://www.jula.se/catalog/verktyg...BrBng0-2nV34fn85qlhoCFPQQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Then a little grout and a piece of tile on top of that.

 

[PerOF]

"Saw"...? (with what?)
How is tile handled?

Hi Albeiro! Copper is soft, as someone mentioned. There are special tools for cutting, they look like small pizza cutters. But a regular hacksaw works fine. Remember to leave a bit of the pipes, so you can put the plugs back on the ends. Because you surely don’t want hidden pipes in the floor, right? Tile is removed with a chisel.

 

[Albireo]

As you understand, I have never worked with tiles

The pipe is not a problem.
I will try to "figure out" how tiles can be cut. I searched but only found expensive tile saws.
Does a regular angle grinder or Dremel or maybe a regular hacksaw work?
Is there any difference between klinker/tiles/or... (for processing)?

Wonder how hard the existing grout is?
Something you "chip" away with a screwdriver?
(without affecting adjacent tiles)
Or do you need a saw or...

 

[Albireo]

Hi Albeiro! Copper is soft, as someone mentioned. There are special tools for cutting, they look like small pizza cutters. But an ordinary hacksaw will do just fine. Remember to leave a piece of the pipes, so you can put the plugs back on the ends. Because you don't want hidden pipes in the floor, right? Tiles are removed with a chisel.

I was thinking of hiding the pipes completely. (they have frozen and burst - hence a new pipe installation)
Removing the pipe completely - for some reason - would mean "tearing up" half the floor...

 

[Intet]

It's not necessary. Press it down under the floor. Flatten. Done.

 

[Albireo]

The tiles to be produced might be 20x20mm - i.e. The pieces are very limited in size.
Which I think "complicates" the whole thing somewhat - maybe.

 

[Claes Sörmland]

The tiles that need to be produced might be 20x20mm - i.e. the pieces are very limited in size.
Which I think "complicates" things somewhat - maybe.

Buy a larger tile and cut it down. Score and break it or saw it. If the pieces are too small to hold them during the work in a simple way, buy tiles in a larger size and cut them down to the desired fragments.