I recently did a bathroom remodel on an investment property. The bathroom was gutted when I bought it. I put a subfloor down with a vinyl cover. My problem is that there must have been a tile floor prior, because the bottom of the flange sits 1/2″ proud of the floor. Now the toilet wont sit properly. The flange is soldered to 4″copper. Do I just cut the flange and put a new one on? Or do I take it off all the way to the stack and replace everything with PVC.
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You could cut it off flush with the florr line & install an instaset¯ http://www.instantset.com/closet_rings.htm
Might require a double gasket as copper has a smaller OD than cast iron.
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Look at these options.
http://www.plumbingsupply.com/toiletflanges.html
Go buy a 1/2" thick shhet of high density plastic, like a stiff kitchenm cutting board. lay hte potty on it, trace the outline, cut and sand, looks like it was meant to be there.
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Melt the solder and push the flange down.
Resolder.
Go down in the crawl/basement cut the copper back a bit, put a Fernco on and run PVC back up to the toliet flange.
Take the copper to the scrap yard and save the $$ for beer.
Loosen the strap holding the drain line, lower the flange, reattach strap.
If all else fails, get a bigger hammer.