My four month old toilet seems to have sprung a leak and water is seeping onto the floor at one side of the base. I sort of don’t want to know, but I’m guessing that this can’t be clean water, although it doesn’t stink or anything. But needless to say, we want to repair it, not least because it went on all summer while we were away, soaking the subfloor and I don’t want to end up having to replace the tiles and subfloor too. I’m having a hard time tracking down my contractor and might have to get a plumber in there to fix it. From reading on the web, it seems like it’s a broken wax seal. The bolts attaching the toilet are loose so i think it shimmied on the tile floor, causing the break. Any idea how big (i.e. expensive) a repair that is. Also, should the toilet NOT be on tiles to avoid this happening again?<\/p>\n
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My four month old toilet seems to have sprung a leak and water is seeping onto the floor at one side of the base. I sort of don’t want to know, but I’m guessing that this can’t be clean water, although it doesn’t stink or anything. But needless to say, we want to repair it,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-48784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/09\/yuck-help-leaky\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Yuck, Help! Leaky Toilet Base","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/09\/yuck-help-leaky\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/09\/yuck-help-leaky\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Brokers","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"pitythefool"}],"creator":["pitythefool"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2010-09-20T11:17:35Z","datePublished":"2010-09-20T11:17:35Z","dateModified":"2010-09-20T11:31:07Z"},"rendered":"