Re: Rocking Bathroom Toilet
Originally Posted by
Tedc
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Yes, the toilet is now out and the board underneath is very mushy - beyond repair.
Looks like I'll have to dig out the mush and put some new wood in there. Bit worried about where the beams are as the shower tray is fixed about a foot to the left of the toilet base.
and may be on one of the beams I need to use.
The gap from the old floor to the centre of the water feed pipe is 15 inches. If I put tiles under I might have a problem, as you suggest because I'd need to win half an inch. There might be an extension available, to buy, somewhere.
I'm drying it all out now and will start again later today, or tomorrow.
Opening a hole in the exposed floor, smaller than the footprint of the pan, and allowing time for any water to dry out under the floorspace would seem sensible. As you say, you have a couple of other toilets, so leaving this open for a few days won't be a great hardship.
Difficult to know how to create a new support bit of timber without seeing it. If most of the timber is sound, then screwing battens to the underside of where the screwholes (screwing through the floor while you somehow hold the battens underneath) might be fiddly, but possible. Remember, the main task is to have something solid for the pan screws to fix into.
The hole you've creates in the floor can be filled in easily enough., and and of the rotten bits of timber can be filled with anything - cheap wood filler, mortar etc.
If you ever get round to a complete refurb of the bathroom, then that'll be the time to lift the whole floor, strengthen any water damage joists and replacing the floor.
At present, you're just looking at making it sound and presentable, and being able to keep the pan solid so that you can silicon around the base of it to limit any further water ingress.