Comment on Toilets: to caulk or not to caulk?
MurrayL@lemmy.world 2 months agoYeah, I think having a hole directly under the toilet is an American thing.
Comment on Toilets: to caulk or not to caulk?
MurrayL@lemmy.world 2 months agoYeah, I think having a hole directly under the toilet is an American thing.
Iconoclast@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Well even that’s not untypical. The standard way to do this is to just have a 110mm sewer pipe sticking from the floor. You then cut it to a floor level and install the toilet on top of it. The difference is that in the US they use this “wax seal” which is a complete mystery for me. Here we just take an adapter that’s pushed to the inside of the sewer pipe and then the toilet is lowered on top of that one. Water would need to climb uphill past the seals in order to leak.
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bizarroland@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A few years ago I replaced all of the toilets in my house simply because they were blue and 40 years old and just kinda crappy.
I live in America and I use a rubber seal since if you need to remove and reposition the toilet you can reuse the rubber seal instead of having to clean potentially poop and other bacteria laden wax out of a hole and replace it with another wax donut.
The waxed donuts were three to five dollars a piece and the rubber seals were ten.