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    Dec 12, 2016, 07:05 PM
    Toilet replacement
    My apt's just replaced our toilet (new owner upgrade). Now it sticks out from the wall approx. 2inch's keeping the bathroom door from opening all the way. Asked our maintenance about it (got the brush off). Can the toilet be adjusted closer to the wall pretty easily?
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    Dec 12, 2016, 08:37 PM
    No, it has to sit on the drain pipe and that is a specific place in the floor that is not easily moved (really not moved) and it is a specific place on the toilet.

    So the only way to change it, is to buy and replace the toilet with another type.
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    Dec 12, 2016, 09:12 PM
    No,not easily done. Was it a round toilet? Is it now elongated? Could've they replaced a 12 " rough with a 10, that would be the 2". Not too much you can do, it's not your place. Don't usually see a toilet behind a door unless it is in a separate enclosure.
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    Dec 13, 2016, 07:33 AM
    Bathroom door in hall opens inward from right to left. Bathroom is arranged tub(left), toilet(center), counter c/sink(right). So you are saying, because of how the pluming was originally put in, and the choice of toilet: the plumbers can not make any adjustments. It's not just mine, several are that way and they still have 3/4's of our complex to go. I'm not in a wheel chair yet, but have others that r. So other than removing the door, nothing can be done?
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    Dec 13, 2016, 08:39 AM
    If you are in the US, complain about handicap access. However, a tub is5' , toilet sticks out that far? Must be a back to back drain.
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    Dec 13, 2016, 09:49 AM
    Can you draw a floor plan to show how this is working? It might be easier to change the door so it opens outward.

    But I agree that if this affects handicap access, then the owner needs to stop immediately. As noted its probably that the toilet is sized differently from the old one. So to fit it properly over the drain, causes it to stick out the 2". This is a matter of poor planning on the part of the owner/plumbing crew. A different toilet should have been chosen.
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    Dec 13, 2016, 12:15 PM
    A landlord isn't usually required by law to make a bathroom handicap accessible unless it's a building that falls under that requirement.

    I agree that changing the doors to open out is the easiest solution, if they can't take all the rest of the toilets back. However, that's not all that easy either.
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    Dec 14, 2016, 01:49 PM
    If there was old toilet that fit OK, than there must be new toilet that will fit just like the old one. Sounds to me like they installed elongated bowl toilet in place of round bowl toilet

    Can you measure from the bolts ( in the base of the toilet ) to the wall, and let us know what that distance measures ?

    Back to you

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