What Is A Flange Repair Ring

• #2

Do yourself a favor and replace the flange with on that has a stainless steel band. This can exist done without cut up the floor past using within cutters to remove the quondam flange.

John

Terry

The Plumbing Magician

• #four

I used the one on the left and the middle.

Your flange where the wax sits is still at that place. The repair band is merely for holding the closet bolts.
It works.

Last edited: Oct 24, 2022

• #5

Thank you for the replies.

Do yourself a favor and replace the flange with on that has a stainless steel ring. This can be done without cutting up the floor past using inside cutters to remove the old flange.

I think this is still probably outside of my skill set. And the ones I've seen which get downwards into the pipe wouldn't fit inside this one, as information technology looks like it narrows from four" to 3" right at the top. Unless I'one thousand missing something, of course... Just without taking out that whole slice of pipe and replacing it, is there any "easy" way (for a non-plumber DIY'er similar myself) to replace that flange?

i. The "notches" that the bolts were installed in WERE the all-time way to mountain the toilet. Using the slots usually insures that the flange will break.
2. You did NOT do yourself whatsoever favors by removing the broken section.
3. You could, and should, have used crescent shaped "spanners" nether the croaky piece.
4. Personally, since none of those flanges attach to the drain pipe, I would non use whatsoever of them.

1. Sure, but using those notches DID cause the flange to break. Are the slots non for the closet bolts? I've seen information technology both ways, merely never by carving out a i/2" of concrete flooring underneath the notches. Those bolts completely pulled up and warped the PVC.
2. I should note that the movie was taken BEFORE I removed anything. That bottom notch was already destroyed, and the top notch was bent upward a practiced inch.
iii. I considered the crescent repair piece, but there was no way to become it to "cradle" the flange, adhere to it, or to fit under it... because the whole thing is embedded IN the concrete floor rather than being in a higher place it. It may non be obvious from the overhead camera bending, only that whole flange is really BELOW ground level (the summit of the flange is level with the floor, rather than the usual one/4" higher up it).
four. That is a good betoken, but aside from replacing the whole flange + pipe, I may have little choice. I'd like to recollect as long every bit I use a proficient sealant betwixt the ring and the flange/pipe, and a wax band with the black "funnel" attached, I'll get a good seal.

I use the i on the left.

Your flange where the wax sits is still there. The repair ring is only for holding the cupboard bolts.
It works.

Thank you Terry. Does information technology affair that the flange where the wax sits is recessed into the ground? Really, with the tile around it, it'south technically about 1/8" LOWER than the floor itself. Do I need any sort of stacker/spacer (to raise it upwardly) earlier using the Super Ring? Or is information technology okay beingness that depression?

Thanks again for the replies guys!

Last edited: Mar 16, 2022

Terry

The Plumbing Sorcerer

• #6

If the wax compresses to seal both the flooring and the bowl, that is all that is needed. You lot should experience compression when setting the bowl.
If not, yous volition need to double ring it.
I don't similar stacking spacers. If stackers are used, they need to be installed with Silicone to seal them, or that becomes an obvious place to leak.
I have much improve success with wax.
The repair ring is outside of the wax seal surface area.

jadnashua

Retired Defense Industry Engineer xxx

• #7

The narrow notch IS much stonger than the wider slot. But, the bigger upshot is that most plumbers volition not utilise an all plastic flange for just the reason you saw...the plastic is just that plastic...under load, it bends and curve information technology likewise far and it breaks.

Especially on a tiled floor, it is important to caulk the toilet since the tiny closet bolts shouldn't be likewise tight, and there's not much friction between the tile and the porcelain. The caulk helps to anchor the toilet, prevents dribbles and misses from getting below, and is required by lawmaking well-nigh places anyway.

• #8

I just supervene upon the flange and install the new one correctly. That style I'chiliad done with it and so is everyone else.

• #9

Really, in addition to that Fernco wax-free seal I linked to above, here's something else someone recommended to me:

Here's the key function about how this works --

To a non-plumber, DIY-er, both of these products look good and uncomplicated, and SEEM similar they'd work.... only any thoughts past you professionals earlier I do anything?

Thanks once more everyone!

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• #11

IMO all flange repairs are stop gaps between proper replacement. Start with a apartment solid floor and have the flange lesser sitting on the finished floor and anchor the flange.

Use 1 regular waxseal and some brass bolts. Finish past caulking information technology to the floor with 100% silicone.

Y'all do that and your problems will be gone forever.

What Is A Flange Repair Ring,

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