JimboJones
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I bought a Kohler Wellworth toilet today. When I got home and unboxed it, I noticed the set-out distance from the back of the S-trap would end up very close to my wall. My inlet pipe and shutoff valve are aligned just a little ways away from center behind my old toilet. On that old toilet, the the back of the S-trap is set off from the wall a pretty good distance, so there's plenty of clearance for the shutoff valve. I took measurements, and it looks like the new Kohler's S-trap will touch the shutoff knob. My rough-in is about 12", and the new toilet matches that, but this long S-trap is bizarre.
This was going to be a DIY install, but now I dunno. I'm wondering, can the inlet pipe be easily modified to turn into a series of elbows, or an S-curve, so that the shutoff valve can be farther off to the side of the toilet? Would welding be involved here? Or should I just return this toilet and buy another one with more clearance between the S-trap and the wall? I drew some top-down diagrams:
This was going to be a DIY install, but now I dunno. I'm wondering, can the inlet pipe be easily modified to turn into a series of elbows, or an S-curve, so that the shutoff valve can be farther off to the side of the toilet? Would welding be involved here? Or should I just return this toilet and buy another one with more clearance between the S-trap and the wall? I drew some top-down diagrams: