Another flange/pipe question

Upon returning to the house to inspect my new tile one of the guys couldn't set my second toilet. He just pointed at the floor & said "broke". After spending many hours on this forum reading I learned I had what I thought were iron pipes. So I removed the old flange & started removing the extra lead in the pipe with a torch. That's when I started to panic.....(see pics)
I do not have any access from beneath the floor since is on a concrete slab. Can anyone point in a direction other than jumping off a cliff. Thanks

You are in over your head on this one. Call a plumber to properly install a new flange. Believe me, it will cost less if you just leave it alone and let a professional deal with it. I know, we all want to save money and there's no denying that plumbers don't work for cheap, but this is one of the things that requires knowledge, experience, and tools to do it right and the last thing you want is a toilet flange that isn't installed correctly.

Will do. I hope I didn't kill it too bad for my new plumber. Any idea why the pipe would just fall apart like that?

If it was soft and melted with your torch, it is lead...they don't use that too much any more. It may be really difficult to repair without tearing up the floor. If it was hard and brittle (doesn't look like it), it was cast iron, and if it broke up like that, you've got bigger problems as more would need to be replaced.

Just a follow up for others to learn from. Contrary to other threads there are lead pipes in the world, this was one of them. The plumber came out & got a laugh out of the mess I made. If I wouldv'e just let them replace the flange it would have cost $300. Now I have to pay about $1800 to fix it.

Moral of the story: If you even think you may have lead ANYWHERE near a toilet flange. Call a professional plumber! When you see the $20 price of a flange at the orange box do not think that $300 is too much for an install.

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That is what happens when people "think" instead of finding out the real answer. I saw your first picture and the words "iron pipe" and wondered who told you that. Then I saw the other pictures and realized noone had, that you had guessed at it and then created a much larger problem than you started with. Depending on what kind of floor it is, $300, ($500.00 might be more likely however), may be correct to replace the closet bend, but $1800 will replace the bend and make his next few car payments. Sometimes the price reflects the gullibility of the customer, or how badly he has messed the job up, rather than the actual cost of doing it. I could just about do an entire small simple bathroom for $1,800.00.