JDkimes
Engineer
I'm installing a toilet on a concrete slab floor. The rough-in is a straight cast iron 4" pipe that sticks up about 1 1/2", I'm putting in ceramic tile on the concrete. The question is what to do about the flange. I've seen the PVC-types that slide inside the pipe and then you tighten some screws to seal w/ a rubber gasket. But I'm wondering if I need one of them.
My questions are. 1) How can I cut the cast iron down so it will be level w/ the finished floor? I've used a pipe snapper as low as it could go but that only gets it to about 1 1/2"
2) Can I use just some type of ring (that the toilet bolts will stick out of) and screw it to the concrete floor and set the wax ring/toilet right on to the straight cast iron pipe?
Note the concrete is firmly/tightly all around the circumference of the cast iron pipe so no flange like this would seem to work.
This house is from the 50's and it seems like this rough-in would have been common, but I've not done it before.
My questions are. 1) How can I cut the cast iron down so it will be level w/ the finished floor? I've used a pipe snapper as low as it could go but that only gets it to about 1 1/2"
2) Can I use just some type of ring (that the toilet bolts will stick out of) and screw it to the concrete floor and set the wax ring/toilet right on to the straight cast iron pipe?
Note the concrete is firmly/tightly all around the circumference of the cast iron pipe so no flange like this would seem to work.
This house is from the 50's and it seems like this rough-in would have been common, but I've not done it before.