Recent content by Dbolljr9

Thank you for the reply. I've replaced the toilets on the cast iron flanges in my house, and those flanges only had the longer slots.

I recently had a plumber replace the cast iron piping in my bathroom with PVC (cast iron was corroded and leaking in the basement). They installed a new PVC toilet flange, which I have attached in the picture. I'm concerned that it is not rotated correctly, as I would have expected to put the...

Thank you for commenting. To clarify - you think I should use a wye instead of a sanitary tee at the sewer stack, and that the 2" pipe should approach the wye at a ~45° incline (like the dashed line in the sketch)?

It appears my second question didn't post. 2. I will be cutting the cast iron stack to insert a new sanitary tee with "shielded" no-hub couplings. Should this new 4x2 tee be cast iron or PVC? I will be adding support to the cast iron piping above, but I am still a little concerned about the...

Background: The kitchen sink in my house is located far away from the rest of the plumbing fixtures. It has its own 2" stack and a long horizontal cast iron drain line that runs under my basement floor to join up with main line out of the house. Recently, this 2" line has clogged under the...