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The second toilet went in even better. It was one of those old ones where the tank was mounted on the wall. I was able to cut the bolts and pull the tank off from the wall and then the bowl popped off the closet flange just like a modern toilet. The one thing that tripped me up was the ceramic...

Thanks, I'm glad I was on the right track! The space between the tank and the wall ended up being ideal. Also, the 7/8" to 7/8" adapter worked perfectly too- such a great way of avoiding the pipes hitting each other. One toilet down, one to go. The last one is one of those old toilets where the...

Just as an update, here's what the bare closet flange looked like. You can see there's the adapter ring sitting on top. Unfortunately, the screw holes for securing it down to the floor overlap with the outer lip of the unifit flange. I knew there was a chance that I could use a wax seal and be...

At first I was thinking that I'd be limited in the back by the plastic ears that pop out each side of the unifit adapter and hit the toilet at the points marked by the red arrows below. So even though it looks like the unifit gasket could continue up the porcelain tube, it gets blocked by the...

Sorry for saying that confusingly, the repair ring is elevating the height of the closet flange, I don't have a separate spacer that I could just remove. When I put the unifit adapter on top and tighten it down, I see that the back legs aren't sitting on the ground and are raised up. I tried to...

I have a closet flange that sits high because there's a closet flange repair spacer on top since the original cast iron closet flange rusted away. It's one of those red metal brackets that hugs the rusted closet flange. When I attach the unifit adapter, the end that's supposed to bolt down is up...

One of the plumbers did go in the attic to look at the stack and said he couldn't see anything wrong there. I previously switched out a toilet and that smell when I had the open sewer does resemble the same smell but perhaps how bad it smells from the fan varies from day to day. This is a great...

We had bath fans installed in our 100 year old home and I now notice when the door is closed and the fans are on that it will pull air through a 1/4" hole in the medicine cabinet from the wall cavity. It has a sewer gas type smell. You can only smell it when the fan is on. My question is how...

Hey everyone, I live in a 100 year old home and I'm paying to have the original garage rebuilt. I found some piping that looks like a water spigot but I wanted a sanity check before I got a wrench and turned it on. I can see that there is a part in the floor where it looks like maybe an oil tank...

Is that the likely worst case- modifying pipe position or orientation outside of the wall? I was worried that perhaps part of the wall would need to be opened up so that the pipe would came out in a different location entirely.(FWIW I'm new here so if there was a unifit option that's more...

Hi there, I'm wondering if anyone can confirm that a Vespin II will fit with this 14" rough in toilet in my 100 year old home. The water valve at its innermost edge on the handle is 6-1/8" from the centerline of the toilet, which is less than the 8" that was recommended but I read on this forum...