I swear to god pedes, I fucking swear to god this house is cursed and the second we decided to sell it it said "fuck you guys" and started falling apart. You guys know about the leak in the living room, and the leak in the ceiling. As I sit here writing to you there is a huge hole in my kitchen cieling and a huge section of drywall missing from the living room, it's cold, everything sucks, so this morning my wife is taking a shower and the sewer starts backing up into the shower with her. Shit, toilet paper, dead roaches, fuck. So using the little bit of plumbing know how I know I attempted to snake the drain, I attempted chemicals, nothing works, and I don't think the house has a main sewer clean out because it's older... so now a plumber is coming out to snake the main sewer line. fuck. sorry about the language.
Edit to Add: Dude leans my toilet against a cabinet and it falls an breaks. Then he comes into the house talking about how he saw a hair line fracture on the toilet and that's why it broke. Then he tells me the whole job is going to be 495.
Horse shit.
Toilets are easy to install. There are a bunch of "This Old House videos" on fixing toilets and drywall. A wax or silicone gasket are just a couple bucks. An economy toilet costs less than $200. Wish I lived close by to help you out. I do most of my house reno myself. It is not hard to learn, but it does save sooooooo much money. A lot of the older houses used clay/terracotta sewer piping. That shit gets crush by tree roots and just age. Any chance I get to remove any of that crap from my house I do it. I replaced the copper piping with pex, got rid of all the galvanized pipes, lined my bathroom vents with pvc pipe. Installed auto-vents on the kitchen sink. My house is from the 50's
I tried to snake the line with my 25ft snake, but it wasn't long enough (lol). The second plumber I called was able to un clog the main line by using most of his 100ft snake. He said it was almost all the way off my property before he hit the clog.
He installed the toliet while he was there, he charged by the hour and the whole job took him about 1.5 hours.
but maybe you could help with this, the flange on the toilet sits pretty high, so now the toilet sits off of the floor about 1.5 inches. The plumber said that he didn't have the time or materials to fix it at that time. He says that I need to build a base around the flange so that the toilet sits right. I'm not confident I could do that and make it look decent, and I'm about to list the house, what do you think?
you could get a piece of vinyl plank and cut it out from a paper template. That would probably be the easiest.
It's cast iron, I wonder if I can't hammer it down a bit, I only need about a half inch.
Ah, I thought it was sticking up too far for the toilet, I was just suggesting putting a shim under the toilet with the waterproof vinyl deck boards cut to fit flush with the edges of the toilet. Do you have any pics?