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"Professionally installed" toilet comments
This new toilet was “installed professionally” about 2 years ago.
First note the toilet flange. It has brown material between the seem of the flange and the cast iron pipe but no covering. This material I assume to be oakum.
There is this string of lead that looks like a hoola-hoop around the bottom of the pipe. Apparently the garbage when the old flange was removed.
I did not show a picture of the GARBAGE on top of the ceiling tiles nearby.
Now note the toilet base topside. It was caulked and now the caulk has separated from the toilet leaving an 1/8 gap. The caulk is hard as a rock. I believe they did this primarily to stop rocking. It does not seem to rock now, but the caulk should not have separated, nor should the toilet have moved.
The toilet, Vortex Vianna, has to be plunged periodically, say about 2x/month on average.
The professional has a radio show called “Your Handyman” and has an interesting racket going. He claims to be the owner of a plumbing contractor, but really he has businesses in all aspects of home fix-up and repair. He’ll say, call my office and I’ll give you a name of a roofer, etc. It turns out he owns that company.
So guys, what’s wrong with the pictures? What has to be corrected and how?
This is the reason I hesitate to have professionals do the work.