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Someone went through all the trouble of tiling their bathroom floor, replacing their toilet, and installing a new toilet flange. However, instead of installing the flange above the tiled floor, they kept it where it was--too low. Instead, they routed out the subfloor and tiled up to the toilet base. Thus, the toilet is recessed into the subfloor by about 3/8" + an additional 3/8" from the tile. So, the base of the toilet sits 3/4" below floor-level.
This strategy still failed, however, because after I pulled the toilet, I saw that the wax ring had never been compressed. So, not only did it look like crap, it leaked anyway.
I'm definitely going to raise the flange, and tile right up to it. My question is: What kind of product should I use to fill the routed-out area of the subfloor? I don't think a wood-filler would be strong enough. How about a concrete floor leveler? Bear in mind that the thinset will need to adhere to whatever I use to fill that void. How about using thinset? Or is that too deep an area for it?
It looks like there's an old linoleum floor under this subfloor and another subfloor under that. Also, the owner says that replacing the subfloor, which would require removing a lot more tiles, is not an option.
Someone went through all the trouble of tiling their bathroom floor, replacing their toilet, and installing a new toilet flange. However, instead of installing the flange above the tiled floor, they kept it where it was--too low. Instead, they routed out the subfloor and tiled up to the toilet base. Thus, the toilet is recessed into the subfloor by about 3/8" + an additional 3/8" from the tile. So, the base of the toilet sits 3/4" below floor-level.
This strategy still failed, however, because after I pulled the toilet, I saw that the wax ring had never been compressed. So, not only did it look like crap, it leaked anyway.
I'm definitely going to raise the flange, and tile right up to it. My question is: What kind of product should I use to fill the routed-out area of the subfloor? I don't think a wood-filler would be strong enough. How about a concrete floor leveler? Bear in mind that the thinset will need to adhere to whatever I use to fill that void. How about using thinset? Or is that too deep an area for it?
It looks like there's an old linoleum floor under this subfloor and another subfloor under that. Also, the owner says that replacing the subfloor, which would require removing a lot more tiles, is not an option.
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