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sum (FL)
Is there a toilet flange that is easily removed and not make a "permanent" connection?
Situation...I am rehabbing a property with three baths and everything is gutted to the bare walls. Concrete slab cut and DWV totally redone. New DWV is PVC and the lines are 3". For the toilets I used a 4X3 elbow so the risers are 4" and ties in with the 3" horizontal drains.
Slab has been repoured so now in each bathroom I have a piece of 4" PVC toilet riser sticking about 12" above the slab. The idea is once I tiled, I will flush cut the pipe, then solvent weld in a 4".inside fit toilet flange.
However, due to the extent of the work it will be months before I get to drywall ready or tile ready status. Meanwhile I really need a toilet there to use for myself and helpers.
How would I set a toilet flange when I don't know yet the actual tile I may be using?
Should I just set it against the concrete slab, and later on tile around the flange ring, knowing it would be too low but can be compensated with a thick wax ring or a flange spacer?
Or should I get a couple of pieces of tiles put them down (not set or glued) and set the flange over them, and eventually it may still be off depending on what tiles are used but it will be closer?
Or use some flange that is easily removable...I seem to remember there are ones you fit inside a pipe with a gasket connection that is tightened with screws? I can't seem to find them but those you can remove when the time comes to tile?
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hj (AZ)
some have a tapered rubber wedge that expands when you screw the flange in to them. That would be best for your situation.
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sum (FL)
That's the one I was thinking about and it would allow me to remove it later and put in a real stainless flange properly.
Now this is designed to compressed against CI pipes. I assume it has enough give to work with PVC pipes too?
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packy (MA)
sum, you can remove the flange, clean it up and re-use it. a little bowl wax rubbed on the gasket will help it seal. not to worry about the bolts pulling out of the flange slots if the toilet is siliconed to the tile floor.
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