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diiulio (VA)
I am redoing my bathroom and the house is about 30 years old. Two bathrooms back up to each other and the toilets are back to back in the approximate same location. Both toilets are 5-1/2" from the wall and I measured a 16-1/2" offset from center of bolts to the drywall. The construction is slab on grade and there is currently tile right on top of the concrete. I am going to mud in 1" and then ditra over that and then tile so that the floor is flush with the hardwood floor of the bedroom rather than having over an 1" difference in elevation as their currently is.
How do I go about moving the toilet flange back so it is a standard 12" offset and also raising the flange so that it will be at the correct height? I figure this is going to breaking out old concrete and then redoing some plumbing. There is a sink on one side of the toilet and a shower on the other so I don't know the actual layout of the drain line.
Thanks for the help.
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KCRoto (MO)
you would remove the concrete and put the drain where it needs to be. Are both bathrooms the same in respect to the 16.5 inch center on the toilet?
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hj (AZ)
All you have to know about the layout of the drain line is that it should go directly back towards the other toilet, so you should just have to break concrete towards the wall and cut the pipe shorter. DO NOT forget to raise the toilet flanges before you raise the floor.
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packy (MA)
they may be that far out for a reason. could be a fitting between the toilet elbow and the wall.
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sum (FL)
This is very curious that both toilets are 15.5" from sheetrock or around 16" from stud face.
If its only 30 years old anyway you can still reach the original owner to see why? May be there is a good reason that you don't want to break open the slab to learn about.
Could a 4" deep half wall be there to serve as a shelf for candles, liquid soap etc that is now removed? Or some obstructions underneath that was in the way?
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KCRoto (MO)
That actually sounds quite reasonable.
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