HI y’all,
Gotta run but will be back to see if anyone can settle a disagreement as to the most correct height to set a toilet flange.
I say on top of the finished floor, counterpart says on top of sub floor
In this case difference is about 3/4″ of tile and thinset.
Let’s not confuse the issue with facts!
Replies
Should be somewhere between flush with and sitting flat on top of the finished floor. Any lower and you need a thicker wax ring, any higher and the ring will be squeezed too flat and the toilet may not sit flat on the floor.
In your case, on top of tile.
Welcome to the
Taunton University of Knowledge FHB Campus at Breaktime.
where ...
Excellence is its own reward!
Would love to tell them "piffen' said so but they would just go 'who'.
Even called the plumber I used for my business in Raleigh and he agreed with the 'on top' thing. Don't think I'll ever convince my coworker, or my boss for that matter, but life goes on.Let's not confuse the issue with facts!
You know the old saying
You can please some of the people some of the time........
I think the word was "fool".
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do. --Benjamin Franklin
Yeah your right of course but it is adaptable some times.
I was working for the man once on some soffit. We had already done the back half and got pulled off the job for some reason I was not privy to.
Any way when we came back three weeks later we started nailing our soffit and the saw man was cutting vents in it. Wait a minute I said the back half is a continous soffit.
The day I ask a helper how to build a house will be the day I die he says. He wouldnt even bother to go around and look to see.
My dad always told me "Never work for someone dumber than you".
I didnt always listen to my dad as you can see.
In his case it is a capital "F" fool.
Edited 8/1/2007 8:18 pm by bambam
When I ran my own shop I always said, if you have to work for a jerk it may as well for yourself. Things I've liked about running my own shop - things I've liked about being an employee. When push comes to shove, if the boss says on the sub floor the flange goes then thats gosh darn where I'll put it, after I've had me 2 cents.Let's not confuse the issue with facts!
yeah, he'll end up paying for it like my boss did.
Dont ya just hate a narrow minded boss that wont even take a suggestion every now and then?
OK
You can please the fool some of the time...
Welcome to the Taunton University of Knowledge FHB Campus at Breaktime. where ... Excellence is its own reward!
on top of the tile....
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Flip the toilet over and measure the depth of the nipple that is the drain. Typically this is about 1/2" deep, but I've seen deeper. Typically the nipple is flush with the outside edge of the bottom of the toilet.
So, typically, the flange can protrude no more than 1/2" above the finished floor. It should actually protrude less than that to leave room for the layer of wax that is the gasket.
Select your gasket based on the height of the flange and the depth of the nipple. If there's not much room, you want a plain wax ring.
Most flanges are about 1/4" thick. It's perfectly acceptable to have the bottom of the flange flush with either the finish floor or the subfloor. Just pick the right gasket.
I agree that it should be close to flush with the finished floor but that's not always the case.
You have to get creative with the wax rings. I'd rather not though because the wax is nasty stuff to get off.