Toilet - No plaster seal?
I recently had a plumber come in to replace the lead bend and cast iron wasteline pipe for one of my bathrooms. He’s not a licensed plumber, but works as one in a top U.W.S. coop building in NYC, and will be taking a union test in the next 6 months. He did a great…
I recently had a plumber come in to replace the lead bend and cast iron wasteline pipe for one of my bathrooms. He’s not a licensed plumber, but works as one in a top U.W.S. coop building in NYC, and will be taking a union test in the next 6 months. He did a great job of replacing the pipes, from what I can tell. (This was done from beneath, we didn’t take up the floor, but rather removed the ceiling of the floor below.)
My only question is that he didn’t put any plaster between the tile floor and the toilet base after he’d replaced all the pipes. He put a new wax seal, and soldered the lead. When I asked him about this, he said it wasn’t necessary from a plumbing perspective, only cosmetic. True? Should I do anything about this? (Like run a bead of silicone caulk arond the base of the toilet?) Nervous!
I though plaster was used to level a wobbly toilet set on uneven floor tile. If your floor was level and the toilet sits snugly I don’t think it’s neccesary.
A plumber I know doesn’t put it down on jobs that he does. For his own house he did grout for looks. That is what I did on mine. I would use grout, not caulk or plaster. It is easy to remove if you need to take the toilet up. Why would I want to do that you ask? If you have kids and they flush something and it is stuck in the toilet. Or you flush your cell phone down and it’s stuck in the toilet. It is actually a pretty easy to put in a toilet and better to attempt that spend the money and embarassement from having to call a plumber to fix your only toilet!
Plaster is used under a toilet to keep it flat on the floor, not as any kind of water seal. If your toilet is bolted down firm with no movement. It should be fine. You would know by now if it were leaking. The wax ring makes the seal not the plaster.