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- Centigrade
Toilet flange... on top of tile.... or on concrete floor with tiles cut around?
Answer please.
Yes it's a weird question for a design form and yes it literally is a shitty job.
- iCanHasQBN0
top of tile
- its cleaner. you'd have a hell of a time cutting the tile in a rounded shape to match the bottom of the toilet.iCanHasQBN
- would I not just cut around the flange... and not the whole toilet?Centigrade
- jonturi0
also, you may want to put some plaster along the floor under where the toilet hits the floor. this will defer any future "rocking" if the floor is or becomes unlevel.
- Centigrade0
Hmmm... interesting, I had googled around and was getting conflicting answers. I was going to put the flange in, secure to concrete basement floor, tile up to the flange and place toilet on top. If i needed to extended the flange I have a kit to do that. But now I'm second guessing my theory.
- iCanHasQBN0
hmm, everything i just googled says, above.
"Its best if the flange sits on top of the finished tile floor but you could get away with setting it on top of the cement board and tiling around it. You may have to use a thicker wax ring or two wax rings if you do this. If you set the flange on top of the tile, notch the tiles where the screws to attach the flange to the floor will go before you set the tile. This will save you the job of having to drill holes in the tile after you have set the tile."
"The bottom of your flange should sit on the top of the finished floor..this is th ideal situation..in other words, you could have brought your tile in a bit closer to the drain pipe and the flange would have rested on the tile..but I think our resident plumber will ok your install"
"The ideal case would have the flange sitting on the finished floor ( tile in this case. Most of the homes here are on a slab and I'm not about to move the flange up on those."
- Centigrade0
My worry is that if I put the tile under the flange it means greater chance of crack a set tile when tightening the toilet to the floor.
- exactly. or when fat ass leans over for a new roll of TP.inkpink
- LOL at inkpinkCentigrade
- fooler20
reno: the biggest little shitter in the world
- true dat!Centigrade
- yes sir. Thank you for reminding me of how f*cked I am for living here. :\mayo
- Hey Mayo! glad to see you chimed in.fooler2
- Nice to see you too fooler :Dmayo
- mayo0
Top of tile in case you ever have to replace it.
- jonturi0
- that looks like the flange is not on top of the tile...?Centigrade
- not on top of tile but almost flush with tile. the tile doesn't have to be cut perfectly around it. no one sees it.jonturi
- houston we have a communication probleminkpink
- this is "on concrete floor with tiles cut around" in my booksinkpink
- Thats what I was going to do, but I heard if you get a small leak it will leak under your tile.Centigrade
- and if above tile, could crack the tile and allow wobble and maybe lead. i think the pic looks right. same as at my homejonturi
- If the tile is properly set it should not crack. Don't over tighten.ETM
- Centigrade0
I think Jonturi is correct. I shall follow his lead. fingers and legs crossed.
- just checked. flange to concrete. tile around but try to have flush (no pun).jonturi
- Awesome! Thanks all.Centigrade
- blaw0
On the concrete with the tiles cut to create a perimeter, as pictured two posts up.
The reason is that tiles can come loose, shift, etc. and you need that connection to be solid.
- sublocked0
Just cut a hole in the floor and shit in it. Problem solved.
- I'm not Chinese. Plus my "bum aim" may not be that good.Centigrade
- you're right...i always wondered what happened when people using those have explosive poo.sublocked
- I was in a Beijing nite club once and it was a posh one. The toilets had no cubicles...Centigrade
- just a load of lads crouched down having a shit and a chat. Some were even having a smoke at the same time.Centigrade
- Kaboom!ETM
- ETM0
Well since the mandate of this forum has expanded, I need to add a cold air return to the basement and I am not sure on the formula for calculating the size in relation to forced air and volume in the space. Can any one help?
:D
- BusterBoy0
I hate the word 'flange'...
- xcarlx0
you would probably be better off asking this question on a home improvement forum, rather than one full of photoshop and html monkeys (no disrespect)
http://www.diychatroom.com/
http://www.houserepairtalk.com/