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Is this post a parody on DIY'ers? I'm laughing/crying about how badly our toilet was plumbed by previous owners, but I got a chuckle out of this arrangement. I'm guilty of too much DIY, but at least made an attempt to read up on plumbing/electrical and contracted out what we couldn't handle...

Okay -- it's worse. The cast iron pipe appears to be BELOW the floor surface, and some soft black material (lead or copper?) was used to create a flange to angle the waste water into the drain pipe. The material was missing from one edge. The 1 x 6 planks near the pipe are rotten -- it's very...

It's ugly -- and now we're going to be without a fully functioning bathroom even longer. Need advice. Ugh -- it all started out with re-doing the flooring in our bathroom. We changed out our sink -- no problem. Got to the toilet -- MAJOR SNAFU. We pulled our toilet up -- and found a waxy...

Forgot to ask -- what the heck do we do now to fix this problem? The drain pipe is cast iron. Ugh -- it all started out with re-doing the flooring in our bathroom. We changed out our sink -- no problem. Got to the toilet -- MAJOR SNAFU. We pulled our toilet up -- and found a waxy seal mess...