How To Repair A Toilet Flange With Lead Bend

jadnashua

Retired Defence Manufacture Engineer xxx

• #2

If you're lucky plenty to be able to bend the lead back without it splitting or cracking, yes, you tin can reuse it and the old band. The odds of that happening aren't all that good I think.

An culling would be to cutting that riser off just below where the lead connects to the copper. You can so become a banded coupler with the proper size and use a riser out of PVC or ABS, depending on what'south more readily available in your area. Get a flange that has a stainless steel ring so it won't corrode.

jadnashua

Retired Defense Industry Engineer xxx

• #four

That will work, simply keep in listen, an all-plastic flange won't hold the toilet bolts as well as one with a SS band. If you seal the base of the toilet (as required in many places) to the floor, that helps stabilize the toilet. You don't want to put a lot of stress on the bolts. Snug is fine. If it gets caulked, that helps hold it in place so it won't move, potentially breaking the flange. Push the toilet down on the wax band with your weight, then snug up the bolts...don't use the bolts to do information technology, especially with a plastic flange.

jadnashua

Retired Defense Industry Engineer xxx

• #x

FWIW, drain fittings account for the required slope, and aren't actually the verbal value that'due south listed. Because the cement also melts the plastic, prior to it resolidifying, there's also a (very slight) amount of tweak you can make.

jadnashua

Retired Defense Industry Engineer xxx

• #xiv

With the 4" stop sticking upward, you have the option of using an internal fit flange, or one that fits on the outside. Y'all should not really consider using an internal flange on a 3" piping, though, fifty-fifty though they do brand them. The largest toilet available has a 3" trap and pathway, most are slightly over ii", merely lots of toilet designs require a adequately abrupt turn from the outlet of the toilet to the drain...larger diameter is better. Some toilets plough the waste matter before it gets to the bleed and information technology'south more than of a directly shot down which ways fewer chances of clogging, and if information technology does, an easier path for the toilet auger to try to make clean it out.

jadnashua

Retired Defence force Industry Engineer thirty

• #sixteen

There'south a limit on how much yous tin can cut that plumbing fixtures. You lot exercise desire your flange'south hub to be fully seated over the pipe. Aforementioned issue if you choose an inside one, it must get down in and have enough straight pipe to seal prior to the curve.

jadnashua

Retired Defense force Industry Engineer xxx

• #20

Ideally, you'll accept enough depth to bottom out the socket of the flange you install over the end of the spigot. The socket is slightly tapered (which is why you lot can't dry out fit the stuff...information technology'southward like driving a wedge) and when you add together the cement, it literally melts the plastic then you can insert the fitting fully. When the solvent evaporates, it gets welded together. They're designed for take that exist the total depth of the socket.

I'll exit it to one of the pros every bit to what they remember...how much straight pipe is left for you to become a socket on before information technology gets hung up on the curve?

Annotation, past design, the ideal location of the toilet flange is on Elevation of the finished flooring. Yes, lots of people put them on the subflooring because it'due south easier, but that's non where they are designed to go.

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