toilet flange installation: Flipper Foam - The New Leak Stopper And Toilet Holder Downer
- 09/09/14 08:26 PM
What could be better - Flipper foam - the new leak stopper and toilet holder downer. Holder downer is a new, technical home inspection word. People are finding more and more creative ways to hold things, like toilets, down. Forget those old, stodgy flanges and screws! How old fashioned! We need a new holder downer! Above this photo is a remodeled powder room with a brand-new hardwood floor! It's gorgeous! New cabinet, new toilet, new light fixture, new mirror! New! It's gorgeous! The new toilet is sitting there just as stable and pretty (and unused) as it can be! Nothing to … (21 comments)
toilet flange installation: How It Is That A Newly-Installed Toilet Can Wobble
- 04/11/13 07:52 PM
Home inspection after home inspection I wonder how it is that a newly-installed toilet can wobble. Reading the verbose and full-of-flair features list, it mentions new toilets throughout. And going into the powder room I noticed that the toilet wobbles pretty dramatically. Toilets wobble because their support has worked loose or because the flange is not properly seated. Toilet installation is simple, but it HAS to be done right. It's a bit of hip bone to the thigh bone to the knee bone kind of thing. The toilet base has a hole which is fitted with a wax ring - "donut" … (20 comments)
toilet flange installation: Tilting At Toilets
- 09/06/12 07:09 PM
Sometimes I run into things I have never seen before, or thought about, yet they leave me wondering. And I am wondering now, am I tilting at toilets? As I go about my mission, like Don Quijote, riding throughout the land, lending warnings, seeing and battling monsters and such behind every corner, often I have to pause and think. This post is about a toilet flange in a basement bathroom. It is secure, having been glopped in by concrete molded faithfully all around. Artful, don't you think? But looking at it, my problem is one of common sense. This is is … (27 comments)
toilet flange installation: When Toilets Wobble
- 02/29/12 07:57 PM
One test I do in every bathroom is grab the toilet and see how well it is seated on the floor. But what can be done when toilets wobble? Toilets wobble for a reason. They have to be attached to something! Those two bolts on the sides of the toilet bowl attach that bowl to a flange. The flange is itself ATTACHED TO THE FLOOR STRUCTURE. That attachment is best made with stainless steel screws. One of my pet peeves on new construction pre-drywall inspections is to see drywall screws used to attach the toilet flange! What!!?? If the flange isn't … (20 comments)
toilet flange installation: Drywall Screw Happy - 1 of 3
- 02/04/11 11:36 PM
This is new construction, selling for well over $1 million. It should reflect that in its workmanship and material use. PROFESSIONALS should be working on this house (as they should on every house, but that is the subject of other blogs). I have done enough of these to walk into a house and see where the professionals work and where they don't... Not only should proper materials be used in their various applications, but they should be installed with best-practice techniques as well. Why put together something that is not going to last? To get by cheaply and beyond the warranty … (79 comments)
What could be better - Flipper foam - the new leak stopper and toilet holder downer.
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