I am nearing the end of a major bathroom renovation. One of the last things was put a new toilet in. My wife picked a skirted toto toilet. I read the 12" rough-in bit, checked that my drain was set in 12" and said ok. My big screw up was I didn't notice until I was about to set the toilet in place that the water line is *way* too close to the drain center line. Grrrr!
I'm looking for suggestions on how to recover for this screw up. The options I see so far are:
- The bathroom is on the 2nd floor and the toilet is on an interior wall so I could go to the room on the other side of the wall, pull up the carpet, cut a hole in the subfloor to get access underneath and then move the water supply over. The existing hole in the sub floor and new tile floor would be hidden by the toilet. But considering I thought I was 2 toilet mounting bolts away from finishing this project I have a hard time facing holes in subfloors again!
- Use copper pipe on the surface of the tile to jog over by about 5 inches. Then cover the pipe with tile to make it look better.
- Use some sort of decorative pipe to jog over the pipe and don't worry about covering it. Mostly I'm worried about how this would look, but it sounds better than the pain associated with moving the line.
Any other better ideas or comments (other than be more careful with reading product drawings before spending a lot of money on a toilet or maybe work out all details for the entire project before getting started).
Thanks
-Dan
I'm looking for suggestions on how to recover for this screw up. The options I see so far are:
- The bathroom is on the 2nd floor and the toilet is on an interior wall so I could go to the room on the other side of the wall, pull up the carpet, cut a hole in the subfloor to get access underneath and then move the water supply over. The existing hole in the sub floor and new tile floor would be hidden by the toilet. But considering I thought I was 2 toilet mounting bolts away from finishing this project I have a hard time facing holes in subfloors again!
- Use copper pipe on the surface of the tile to jog over by about 5 inches. Then cover the pipe with tile to make it look better.
- Use some sort of decorative pipe to jog over the pipe and don't worry about covering it. Mostly I'm worried about how this would look, but it sounds better than the pain associated with moving the line.
Any other better ideas or comments (other than be more careful with reading product drawings before spending a lot of money on a toilet or maybe work out all details for the entire project before getting started).
Thanks
-Dan