Steel in the way

[Wazap]

Hi folks, I'm planning a new bathroom and thought I'd put a 50mm waste pipe though the bathroom wall but I've hit a steel lintel. Will I have to plan differently now or is there a way out this? I'd much appreciate any suggestions.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Are you sure it's a lintel?

 

[foxhole]

Choose another wall/route?

 

[Wazap]

Thank you, Freddiemercurys twin and foxhole, yes, it's a lintel. At first I thought it was my wife's secret treasure chest, but she didn't panic when I told her.
I can't raise the level 'cos I'd have no flow. I'm thinking that perhaps it'll have to be a macerator. The only other thing I thought about was to go through most of the studs in a stud wall, but I don't want to weaken the wall when I 'm going to put up 9mm porcelain.
Are the type of metal products (Metwood?) used for strengthening joists and studs any good.

 

[foxhole]

Thank you, Freddiemercurys twin and foxhole, yes, it's a lintel. At first I thought it was my wife's secret treasure chest, but she didn't panic when I told her.
I can't raise the level 'cos I'd have no flow. I'm thinking that perhaps it'll have to be a macerator. The only other thing I thought about was to go through most of the studs in a stud wall, but I don't want to weaken the wall when I 'm going to put up 9mm porcelain.
Are the type of metal products (Metwood?) used for strengthening joists and studs any good.

Impossible to offer further suggestions blind.

 

[Deluks]

Hit it with what. Core drill? Hammer and bolster?
What colour is it?
What's directly underneath it?

 

[Wazap]

Thanks, Deluks, there I was trying to fathom out the micro flow of waste water down the sink hole loitering outside my bathroom when you asked the most obvious question about something I haven't explained very well and can't illuminate with photos because I'm terribly computer illiterate. I suspected I might hit a lintel, so I drilled a smallish hole first with a brick bit, and so it proved.
Of course, the whole problem comes about because in wanting to stick to regulations, I took out the very undersized basin waste pipe (although in thirty years it gave almost no trouble-just the occasional sounds necessitating a dump of gunge to eradicate), and the lintel obviously disagreed with the idea of its much bigger cousin coming to lodge in the wall. Ah well.