MrTacos
New Member
So, I just bought a house that was built in the late 1940s and as far as I can tell, the bathroom is more-or-less original. The house was built on a slab, and the walls are block, so it's not easy to move fixtures. I want to replace the toilet with a more modern one, so I went to measure the bolts to see how far the flange is from the wall (I'm extremely not a plumber, I don't know what I'm doing here at all).
The toilet, first of all, has four bolts. I've never seen a toilet with four bolts, but I found some threads on here that say this is the way they used to make some toilets in the 50s and 60s and that the front bolts were generally attached to the floor, the back bolts are attached to the flange. Mildly annoying to cut the bolts out of the tile floor but hopefully the bottom of the new toilet will cover them. Ok, so I measure the back bolts. They're about 15" from the wall. What's weird is, the toilet tank is only about 2 3/4" from the finished wall.
The front rim of the bowl is about 31" from the back wall, including the 2 3/4" of space between the back of the tank and the wall, meaning the toilet itself is about 28 1/4" long, normal toilet size.
The back edge of the foot of the toilet is about 8" from the finished wall.
So, I'm having a hard time understanding how this all adds up. Is there a kind of old toilet where the back bolts don't line up with the center of the flange? Am I gonna have to just undo these bolts and see what's under there?
I'm just trying to figure out what kind of replacement toilet I can order and how it's going to fit. It's a very small bathroom.
The toilet, first of all, has four bolts. I've never seen a toilet with four bolts, but I found some threads on here that say this is the way they used to make some toilets in the 50s and 60s and that the front bolts were generally attached to the floor, the back bolts are attached to the flange. Mildly annoying to cut the bolts out of the tile floor but hopefully the bottom of the new toilet will cover them. Ok, so I measure the back bolts. They're about 15" from the wall. What's weird is, the toilet tank is only about 2 3/4" from the finished wall.
The front rim of the bowl is about 31" from the back wall, including the 2 3/4" of space between the back of the tank and the wall, meaning the toilet itself is about 28 1/4" long, normal toilet size.
The back edge of the foot of the toilet is about 8" from the finished wall.
So, I'm having a hard time understanding how this all adds up. Is there a kind of old toilet where the back bolts don't line up with the center of the flange? Am I gonna have to just undo these bolts and see what's under there?
I'm just trying to figure out what kind of replacement toilet I can order and how it's going to fit. It's a very small bathroom.