Hello and thanks in advance for any help. I have been searching the internet for a while now and this is far and away the best plumbing forum I have found.
I am an amateur working on my own home, but I figure doing things is the only way to learn. I am in the final stages of adding a basement bathroom and I have hit a road block.
My bathroom has tile flooring over concrete. After I finished the tile I tried installing my toilet and my flange sits 1/4 inch off of the tile. I am using a 3 inch spigot fit PVC flange, and the small lip (1/2 inch) on the underside of it hits the top of the PVC/grout. This is what is keeping the rest of the flange from resting on the tile.
So I went to the hardware store to see if they sold a flange that didn't have that lip, I was pleased that they did - it is appropriately called a level-fit flange. But when I picked up the one marked as 3 inch, I realized the outlet was smaller than on the three inch spigot-fit flange. And the 4 inch is too big. (The 3 inch spigot-fit fits perfectly, diameter wise, into the PVC that I have buried under concrete and tile.)
Obviously I am missing something. Why is the 3 inch level-fit smaller than the 3 inch spigot-fit? Is there any adapter (that doesn't add height) that I can use to make the 3 inch level-fit work?
I hope my questions and explanation are clear. Please let me know if they are not.
Thanks
I am an amateur working on my own home, but I figure doing things is the only way to learn. I am in the final stages of adding a basement bathroom and I have hit a road block.
My bathroom has tile flooring over concrete. After I finished the tile I tried installing my toilet and my flange sits 1/4 inch off of the tile. I am using a 3 inch spigot fit PVC flange, and the small lip (1/2 inch) on the underside of it hits the top of the PVC/grout. This is what is keeping the rest of the flange from resting on the tile.
So I went to the hardware store to see if they sold a flange that didn't have that lip, I was pleased that they did - it is appropriately called a level-fit flange. But when I picked up the one marked as 3 inch, I realized the outlet was smaller than on the three inch spigot-fit flange. And the 4 inch is too big. (The 3 inch spigot-fit fits perfectly, diameter wise, into the PVC that I have buried under concrete and tile.)
Obviously I am missing something. Why is the 3 inch level-fit smaller than the 3 inch spigot-fit? Is there any adapter (that doesn't add height) that I can use to make the 3 inch level-fit work?
I hope my questions and explanation are clear. Please let me know if they are not.
Thanks
