BlueArcher
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Working on a bathroom remodel, and I had some professional plumbers do most of the rough-in work. They seem to have done a decent job but for other reasons I won't get in to, I had to remove them from the job. Now I have the task of trying to finish things myself and I am coming up on a dilemma with the toilet. Hopefully I am not missing something obvious.
84 year old house, this bathroom has the original toilet, which we want to rebuild and keep. JL Mott & Co, and the model is a Lombard. The drain output size is a little larger than modern toilets, more like 2 7/8" ID and almost 3 1/2" OD.
The plumbers stubbed out a 3" pipe that replaced the original cast iron, but as the Ditra+tile is going in now, it's looking like the 3" elbow hub is going to rise higher than the finished floor by 1/4" to 1/2". They also glued the stub out in.
I am not quite sure how to best go about sitting a toilet flange on the finished floor in this state. Want to avoid an "inside pipe" style due to size, but even if I went with that, it would be sitting on top of the hub and not the floor. Other option appears to be a hub saver to ream the stub out from the hub and glue in a 3" pipe size flange, but still have the same problem of sitting on top of the hub. Do I need to also cut the top of the hub down with an inside pipe cutter? Or something else? Did they screw me?
Pictures attached, unfortunately I didn't get a great shot when the floor was open but you can see the elbow a little.
84 year old house, this bathroom has the original toilet, which we want to rebuild and keep. JL Mott & Co, and the model is a Lombard. The drain output size is a little larger than modern toilets, more like 2 7/8" ID and almost 3 1/2" OD.
The plumbers stubbed out a 3" pipe that replaced the original cast iron, but as the Ditra+tile is going in now, it's looking like the 3" elbow hub is going to rise higher than the finished floor by 1/4" to 1/2". They also glued the stub out in.
I am not quite sure how to best go about sitting a toilet flange on the finished floor in this state. Want to avoid an "inside pipe" style due to size, but even if I went with that, it would be sitting on top of the hub and not the floor. Other option appears to be a hub saver to ream the stub out from the hub and glue in a 3" pipe size flange, but still have the same problem of sitting on top of the hub. Do I need to also cut the top of the hub down with an inside pipe cutter? Or something else? Did they screw me?
Pictures attached, unfortunately I didn't get a great shot when the floor was open but you can see the elbow a little.