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Nate73 (WA)
A professional plumber installed my toilet and it frequently clogged. I needed to remove the toilet for construction purposes and found what seems like excessive wax (follow link for picture). Could this be what was causing my toilet to clog a lot?
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So I call the company and ask them to send a different plumber to reinstall the toilet correctly. They send the "supervisor" and he wants to use two wax rings again. I demand that at the very least he uses 40% thicker wax ring instead of two. He agrees and installs the toilet, it doesn't leak. I then proceed to grab a normal size bit of toilet paper and proceed to flush it. He nearly has a heart attack and tells me not to flush toilet paper but instead throw it in the trash. I laugh thinking he's joking then realize he's serious. Anyway, I'm going to ask for some money back.
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steve (CA)
Yes, it could be the reason.
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packy (MA)
that was no plumber that did that work.
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sum (FL)
Looks like a super sized danish.
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bernabeu (SC)
yes
but
the root cause is an IMPROPERLY installed flange NOT mounted ON TOP OF the finished floor
the 'horn' of the bowl should be INTO the flange and acts as a nozzle
the wax seals AROUND and ABOVE the outlet of the bowl
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Nate73 (WA)
Thanks for the great answer!
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bernabeu (SC)
welcome
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