Larry Fox
02-09-2015, 3:21 PM
Wondering if I can tap into the collective plumbing wisdom on the forum to help me sort out an especially frustrating issue I am facing. It is frustrating mostly because it *seems* like it should be very easy to solve but it is proving otherwise.
Without going into detail about how I got to where I am and all that, here is my problem. I am redoing a bathroom in my house. The outlet pipe for the toilet is stubbed up through the floor and there is a 3"PVC hub sitting about 3/4" inches below the finished floor waiting to accept the toilet flange. Picture a 3" PVC coupling, the female part of that is what I am calling a 3" hub in case I have my terminology incorrect.
Now, I need to install a toilet flange and I can't seem to find one that has a long enough tail-piece to bridge this 3/4" gap and make a good solvent weld connection to the hub. The Sioux Chief model number of the one I have is 886-PTMS which they call a spigot. It has a relatively short tailpiece on it and I can get about 1" of purchase that seems like a bit on the short side for a good solvent weld bond. I could chisel the tile, thinset, concrete backer-board out and get another about 3/4" but that means the toilet flange will be about that far below the floor and I will need to build it up. I find it hard to believe that there is not a readily available solution to this but I can't seem to locate it so I thought I would ask here.
Anyone have any thoughts on where I might locate such a toilet flange?
Thanks in advance for your time.
Without going into detail about how I got to where I am and all that, here is my problem. I am redoing a bathroom in my house. The outlet pipe for the toilet is stubbed up through the floor and there is a 3"PVC hub sitting about 3/4" inches below the finished floor waiting to accept the toilet flange. Picture a 3" PVC coupling, the female part of that is what I am calling a 3" hub in case I have my terminology incorrect.
Now, I need to install a toilet flange and I can't seem to find one that has a long enough tail-piece to bridge this 3/4" gap and make a good solvent weld connection to the hub. The Sioux Chief model number of the one I have is 886-PTMS which they call a spigot. It has a relatively short tailpiece on it and I can get about 1" of purchase that seems like a bit on the short side for a good solvent weld bond. I could chisel the tile, thinset, concrete backer-board out and get another about 3/4" but that means the toilet flange will be about that far below the floor and I will need to build it up. I find it hard to believe that there is not a readily available solution to this but I can't seem to locate it so I thought I would ask here.
Anyone have any thoughts on where I might locate such a toilet flange?
Thanks in advance for your time.