Recent content by Dan M.

Getting a plumber on Thanksgiving week was a lost cause. He's supposed to arrive tomorrow. Here's an update: 1) I called Toto and they had me remove the toilet and fill it with water to determine if a faulty toilet was causing the water level to drain too low. When I did this the water stayed at...

I have now cut the rotten subfloor away from below and made a new plywood insert and added support so that the floor is very solid. I used a PVC flange with a SS ring and a flexible coupling between the new PVC pipe below the flange and the existing ABS pipe. Everything looked good and I...

The soil pipe is black. I guess the white you see must be excess glue that ran down the inside or calcium as you suggest. Thanks for the great help! I will take another look at the subfloor from the crawlspace to see if cutting out the wet wood from below is something I want to get into...

Since the center piece is part of the original flange why would the center piece be difficult to remove? Are some threaded or would they have glued it to the pipe?

I discovered my toilet was leaking through the floor into the crawlspace and have removed the toilet and part(?) of the toilet flange. I have attached a picture that shows I have removed an outer, very corroded, metal ring that was nailed to the floor but there remains a plastic piece that reads...