sburns
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Hey guys so while I have some down time during the holidays I've got to replace my toilet seal. I've always used wax, but was thinking to go rubber for this time around.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?
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I am a wax guy personally, just don't cheap out---get one with the plastic core not just the wax.
The only time I use a rubber one is if I know it will be temporary (like a reno) and I will need to take the toilet in and out.
Like motor oil, you will also get the opposite advise....
I'm with you. Wax with the built in funnel is my standard. I have had the displeasure of removing some old neoprene gaskets. Fully saturated in poo water. Gross. Wax is a sticky mess but doesn't absorb.
Mad Mike
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To me wax is the gold standard, doesn't decay.
Why do you need to replace your existing wax ring?
sburns
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I have a leak at the bottom of the toilet. Not much just some seeping. Nothing looks cracked or anything, so I think it must have to do with the seal. I did use a wax seal with the plastic funnelly thing.
I replace it every time I’ve done a toilet. It’s cheap insurance not to have to do it again in X years because of a potential leak.
I worked in a Niagara Falls hotel back in my late teens and replaced likely over 100 toilets over the years I worked there. Wax never leaked.
It always shocked me how people break hotel toilets....
It always shocked me how people break hotel toilets....
The answer is almost always some combination of booze and "adult activities".
sburns
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or taco Tuesday revenge?
