Chris59
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Quick introduction. I'm a new home owner. Just moved into a place that's less than 3 years old.
Hardly lived in by the previous owner as they had temporary housing elsewhere. Zero plumbing experience till I had to start working on the house.
Looked at replacing the smaller toilet that's in place with a new elongated one. First up in my adventures is that it's using a 10-inch tough-in. This limited the choices I had and I had to even special order it from one of the online sites, for roughly 2x the price. Bathroom isn't exactly small as it's 8' x 5'. So, I don't think any plumbing codes would have kept them from using a 12" rough-in.
Done, ordered toilet and it came a few weeks ago but I just didn't have time to start work on it yet.
Went about replacing it today and got a big surprise when I popped off the toilet today. The front of the flange is at least 1/2 inch higher than the back. Whomever did the job decide to hack it to work and built up a layer of some white hard putty that was 2-3 inches in front of the flange and had set the toilet down on it to stablize it. I don't think it fully worked because the wax in the back half was completely gone and had never sealed (nor did we see it on the underside of the old toilet). I'm surprised the toilet did not leak. But, maybe we didn't notice the leak yet and it had been leaking something because the closet bolts had green mold/algae on it growing.
This is on top of the pvc pipes that we had to replace in the kitchen sink because it was leaking all over the place at every place up to and including the P-trap.
Considering I live on long island where the town/villages required approved contractors for work to only be performed (plumbing, electrical, etc) -- it's all a goddamn scam.
Hardly lived in by the previous owner as they had temporary housing elsewhere. Zero plumbing experience till I had to start working on the house.
Looked at replacing the smaller toilet that's in place with a new elongated one. First up in my adventures is that it's using a 10-inch tough-in. This limited the choices I had and I had to even special order it from one of the online sites, for roughly 2x the price. Bathroom isn't exactly small as it's 8' x 5'. So, I don't think any plumbing codes would have kept them from using a 12" rough-in.
Done, ordered toilet and it came a few weeks ago but I just didn't have time to start work on it yet.
Went about replacing it today and got a big surprise when I popped off the toilet today. The front of the flange is at least 1/2 inch higher than the back. Whomever did the job decide to hack it to work and built up a layer of some white hard putty that was 2-3 inches in front of the flange and had set the toilet down on it to stablize it. I don't think it fully worked because the wax in the back half was completely gone and had never sealed (nor did we see it on the underside of the old toilet). I'm surprised the toilet did not leak. But, maybe we didn't notice the leak yet and it had been leaking something because the closet bolts had green mold/algae on it growing.
This is on top of the pvc pipes that we had to replace in the kitchen sink because it was leaking all over the place at every place up to and including the P-trap.
Considering I live on long island where the town/villages required approved contractors for work to only be performed (plumbing, electrical, etc) -- it's all a goddamn scam.