John Villa
New Member
Greetings Plumbing Fans,
See below for pix, I've got a closet flange that now sits about 1/4 to 1/3 in below the tile. The flange itself is embedded in the concrete of the basement on a slab. When I went to set the new toilet down, the wax ring didn't make significant contact and the bolts don't extend up high enough to be grabbed by the bowl to floor knobs.
Should I be planning to chip that flange out and install a riser of some sort and a new flange? Can I install a second flange on top of this one to hold new, longer T-Bolts, then cut down the too-short bolts? Maybe just an xl wax ring?
Diameter of the pipe at the top looks to be 3.5" but widens to probably 4" a couple inches down. Slab (and probably the pipe) were laid in 1959.
Thanks!
See below for pix, I've got a closet flange that now sits about 1/4 to 1/3 in below the tile. The flange itself is embedded in the concrete of the basement on a slab. When I went to set the new toilet down, the wax ring didn't make significant contact and the bolts don't extend up high enough to be grabbed by the bowl to floor knobs.
Should I be planning to chip that flange out and install a riser of some sort and a new flange? Can I install a second flange on top of this one to hold new, longer T-Bolts, then cut down the too-short bolts? Maybe just an xl wax ring?
Diameter of the pipe at the top looks to be 3.5" but widens to probably 4" a couple inches down. Slab (and probably the pipe) were laid in 1959.
Thanks!