natalie559
New Member
Hi group,
We have an older home built in the 1960s. We have two bathrooms that share an adjoining wall. Both toilets are wall mounted tank on outside of wall. One bathroom has a newer low flush toilet that developed a leak behind the wall. The seal was bad and the slow leak went undetected for a long time. Once we knew from evidence outside the wall that there was a leak many studs and the subfloor were rotten and moldy. The bathroom has been torn apart and now that it's in the rebuild stage I wondered what the advantages were of changing the plumbing to accommodate a floor mount toilet? Is changing the plumbing worth the expense? If staying wall mount is best then what about changing the toilet? The newer low flush wall mount toilet I hate b/c the water level in the bowl stays very low and cannot be adjusted and therefore the toilet bowl often stays dirty from solids and a not very powerful flush. What would you all do???
Thank you!!
We have an older home built in the 1960s. We have two bathrooms that share an adjoining wall. Both toilets are wall mounted tank on outside of wall. One bathroom has a newer low flush toilet that developed a leak behind the wall. The seal was bad and the slow leak went undetected for a long time. Once we knew from evidence outside the wall that there was a leak many studs and the subfloor were rotten and moldy. The bathroom has been torn apart and now that it's in the rebuild stage I wondered what the advantages were of changing the plumbing to accommodate a floor mount toilet? Is changing the plumbing worth the expense? If staying wall mount is best then what about changing the toilet? The newer low flush wall mount toilet I hate b/c the water level in the bowl stays very low and cannot be adjusted and therefore the toilet bowl often stays dirty from solids and a not very powerful flush. What would you all do???
Thank you!!
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