Toilet offset placement

[BobN]

I bought a new house a few years ago. The house is built on a concrete slab with drain pipes literally cast in concrete. They used offset flanges to make up the differences. I just had to remove a toilet for flooring work, and found the attached, which seems to be much more offset than I expected.

If I understand what I'm seeing, they put the toilet on a wax ring offset from the offset flange because, even with the offset flange, the hole is too far "up". The top of the photo (up) is a wall. With the toilet installed this way, the toilet tank is nearly touching the wall. That explains why they shifted the wax ring forward.

Perhaps that explains why this toilet is so easy to clog.

Not that it matters, but I wonder if this is against code.

More importantly, is there anything that can be done to make this more appropriate, like a second offset flange?

Thank you for your advice.

 

[Reach4]

How far are the closet bolts from the wall? Are they equidistant from the wall?

 

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[BobN]

There's a 9/16" thick baseboard on the wall. From bolt center to baseboard is ~10.4" From bolt center to wall is ~11". Those bolts seem to be in the wax ring. Or am I seeing the whole thing wrong, and is that the top of the flange?

 

[Breplum]

There are offset flange assemblies. From the looks of your photo, not looking like a code approved situation. Dirtbag tradespeople. Sucks badly. Would take serious concrete work to remedy.
This example shows how smooth the transition should be with an offset.

 

[Reach4]

If I understand what I'm seeing, they put the toilet on a wax ring offset from the offset flange because, even with the offset flange, the hole is too far "up". The top of the photo (up) is a wall. With the toilet installed this way, the toilet tank is nearly touching the wall. That explains why they shifted the wax ring forward.

I think you are saying that the output of the toilet was significantly farther from the wall than the middle of the top of that existing offset flange. How far offset is the flange output from its input? Most offset flanges have an offset of 1.5 inches.

More importantly, is there anything that can be done to make this more appropriate, like a second offset flange?

Did you mean a replacement offset flange?