Hi,
I just pulled up my toilet in my 60 year old house to replace it and found this underneath. The setup from top to bottom was toilet sitting a wax ring with the built-in black flange, on top of a black plastic flange. That plastic flange was sitting on some type of material fiber ring (maybe a fiber gasket or something?). You can see the fibers in one of the pictures where I pulled some of it up. Under the thin fiber ring is what I would say is metal but it is soft where I can press hard on it and leave an impression with a screwdriver.
So, what is the fiber thing and what is the soft metal base? I won't touch the soft metal base but do I need to find the fiber thing? Or is that something old school so I don't need it anymore and just need to buy a new plastic flange ring like the deformed one in the crystal bowl? Thank you!
I just pulled up my toilet in my 60 year old house to replace it and found this underneath. The setup from top to bottom was toilet sitting a wax ring with the built-in black flange, on top of a black plastic flange. That plastic flange was sitting on some type of material fiber ring (maybe a fiber gasket or something?). You can see the fibers in one of the pictures where I pulled some of it up. Under the thin fiber ring is what I would say is metal but it is soft where I can press hard on it and leave an impression with a screwdriver.
So, what is the fiber thing and what is the soft metal base? I won't touch the soft metal base but do I need to find the fiber thing? Or is that something old school so I don't need it anymore and just need to buy a new plastic flange ring like the deformed one in the crystal bowl? Thank you!