Hi Everyone!
I'm having new flooring put down in the bathroom, and I pulled up the toilet (a 1970's elongated American Standard Cadet) and I noticed all this what looked to be like rust staining on the floor underneath. After scraping the wax seal off of the bowl, I noticed the more of the same rust staining on the underside of the bowl where the seal fits on.
I took the bowl out on the deck and scrubbed the living daylights out of it with lime away, and took a wire brush and managed to scrape off most of the rust marks around the horn of the bowl. After it dried, it looks like the underside of the toilet (where the seal fits on, and where the two holes to bolt the toilet to the floor are) and perhaps the inside of the trapway appear to be porcelain enameled cast iron?? It definately feels like enameled cast iron instead of ceramic. Also, I'm almost positive that the rim of the bowl is enamled cast iron too. The rest of it is definately ceramic. The toilet bowl is heavier than any toilet I've ever lifted.
This rusting is definately not from the flange. The flange is PVC with no rusted parts whatsoever on it. The rusting definately came from the underside of the toilet.
Should I spray some rust-oleum on the underside of the toilet before I reinstall it? I don't want to re-install this toilet, only to risk having it rust and possibly stain the new linoleum.
Has anyone ever heard of a porcelain/ceramic toilet bowl? I thought they were all made out of ceramic.
Many thanks for any advice that you can give me.
I'm having new flooring put down in the bathroom, and I pulled up the toilet (a 1970's elongated American Standard Cadet) and I noticed all this what looked to be like rust staining on the floor underneath. After scraping the wax seal off of the bowl, I noticed the more of the same rust staining on the underside of the bowl where the seal fits on.
I took the bowl out on the deck and scrubbed the living daylights out of it with lime away, and took a wire brush and managed to scrape off most of the rust marks around the horn of the bowl. After it dried, it looks like the underside of the toilet (where the seal fits on, and where the two holes to bolt the toilet to the floor are) and perhaps the inside of the trapway appear to be porcelain enameled cast iron?? It definately feels like enameled cast iron instead of ceramic. Also, I'm almost positive that the rim of the bowl is enamled cast iron too. The rest of it is definately ceramic. The toilet bowl is heavier than any toilet I've ever lifted.
This rusting is definately not from the flange. The flange is PVC with no rusted parts whatsoever on it. The rusting definately came from the underside of the toilet.
Should I spray some rust-oleum on the underside of the toilet before I reinstall it? I don't want to re-install this toilet, only to risk having it rust and possibly stain the new linoleum.
Has anyone ever heard of a porcelain/ceramic toilet bowl? I thought they were all made out of ceramic.
Many thanks for any advice that you can give me.