Katirana
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My husband was trying to replace one of our toilets. In the process of removing the toilet, we discovered the flange was all nasty, cracked, and in general unusable. So he pried it off somehow - the screws were all rusty, the flange was rusty... it was gross. Anyways, our problem came about after the flange was removed... our pipe protrudes above the ground by an inch. Thus we didn't think we could use a flange that would fit on the interior of the pipe... because then the flange wouldn't be hooked to the ground. However the pipe has a 5" outer diameter... which we weren't able to find a 5" flange at lowe's, and weren't even sure if getting a flange to go on the outside of the pipe was the right way to go. plumbers want like 150 bucks just to put the stupid flange on... if the flange were perfect, my husband could easily get our new toilet in... we have a crawlspace (one of the plumbers i called asked that and seemed surprised we didn't have a slab). our floor is not rotten... the pipe is cast iron. what is the best and cheapest way to get a flange onto our pipe? my husband said that the old flange looked like it'd been cracked and put on to get around the lip problem before, but it was hard to tell since it was so rusty... i'd love it if there was a cheap solution in the 20 dollar or less range! if not i'd like to know that we have no other option than the 150 plumber... i'm not wanting to do that because we have two toilets we're replacing and we're guessing that the other flange is the same way - i don't think those toilets have been replaced since the house was built 50 years ago.. (we couldn't even find "standard" replacement parts for the toilets, hence the whole getting new toilets thing).
any help would be most appreciated!
any help would be most appreciated!