tonytwotimes
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Hey everybody, first time home owner looking to renovate main bathroom. it is on the second floor of our house. I'm trying to do as much as possible myself; I'm decently handy, but don't have very much experience working on houses, so everything is a learning experience. I've read a lot about how moving a toilet is often a huge headache, but I think I might be lucky here.
I've removed all of the flooring to the 1/2" plywood subfloor. When I removed the toilet I noticed the toilet flange was broken near where one of the bolts fits. The flange is PVC (CPVC?) not cast iron. I assume this isn't ideal, so I thought I better replace the flange. Our toilet is in a terrible spot. Moving it even 6" to the left (if you were standing in front of it) would really improve things. I removed a bit of subfloor to see what was going on under the flange.
The pipe drops down from the flange below the subfloor. It turns ninety degrees and then runs left parallel to the floor for about a foot. It then turns ninety degrees to the right (still parallel to the floor) and runs into wall where I'm guessing it connects to the plumbing stack).
It seems to me that all I have to do is cut the straight pipe, located between the two 90s under the floor in half, and then run a new piece of pipe up through the subfloor where I want the toilet's new position to be. Then I could wait for the floor to be tiled, and cut that drainpipe to proper height before installing new flange.
Am I misunderstanding anything here? Or is this a relatively ideal situation, which should be a pretty easy job? Is it something I'm likely able to do myself, or are there intricacies I'm not aware of that make it more difficult?
I tried to attach a photo but it didn't work-- here is a picture I took of the plumbing from beneath the subfloor. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63265611/IMG_20150626_174514990.jpg
thanks for any help you can provide!
I've removed all of the flooring to the 1/2" plywood subfloor. When I removed the toilet I noticed the toilet flange was broken near where one of the bolts fits. The flange is PVC (CPVC?) not cast iron. I assume this isn't ideal, so I thought I better replace the flange. Our toilet is in a terrible spot. Moving it even 6" to the left (if you were standing in front of it) would really improve things. I removed a bit of subfloor to see what was going on under the flange.
The pipe drops down from the flange below the subfloor. It turns ninety degrees and then runs left parallel to the floor for about a foot. It then turns ninety degrees to the right (still parallel to the floor) and runs into wall where I'm guessing it connects to the plumbing stack).
It seems to me that all I have to do is cut the straight pipe, located between the two 90s under the floor in half, and then run a new piece of pipe up through the subfloor where I want the toilet's new position to be. Then I could wait for the floor to be tiled, and cut that drainpipe to proper height before installing new flange.
Am I misunderstanding anything here? Or is this a relatively ideal situation, which should be a pretty easy job? Is it something I'm likely able to do myself, or are there intricacies I'm not aware of that make it more difficult?
I tried to attach a photo but it didn't work-- here is a picture I took of the plumbing from beneath the subfloor. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63265611/IMG_20150626_174514990.jpg
thanks for any help you can provide!