Comments on: Finishing a Basement Bathroom – Part 5 http://www.handymanhowto.com/2008/10/19/finishing-a-basement-bathroom-part-5/ Home improvement, maintenance and repair projects. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:34:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bob Jackson http://www.handymanhowto.com/2008/10/19/finishing-a-basement-bathroom-part-5/#comment-1783 Bob Jackson Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:29:29 +0000 http://www.handymanhowto.com/?p=718#comment-1783 I used a carpenter's saw to cut off the soil pipe even with the concrete floor before installing the tile to have a level and unobstructed floor for laying tile. You could do it either way but it doesn't make a real difference in the fit or function of setting the toilet. Notice the closet flange slides about 2 inches into the soil pipe in the following photos; this allows for differences in height between the top of the soil pipe and the finished floor: <a href="http://www.handymanhowto.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dsc01525.jpg" rel="nofollow">Photo A</a> and <a href="http://www.handymanhowto.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dsc01530a.jpg" rel="nofollow">Photo B</a>. <a href="http://www.handymanhowto.com/2009/02/09/finishing-a-basement-bathroom-part-12/" rel="nofollow">Part 12</a> of the series covers installing the closet flange and setting the toilet. Thanks Bob Jackson I used a carpenter’s saw to cut off the soil pipe even with the concrete floor before installing the tile to have a level and unobstructed floor for laying tile. You could do it either way but it doesn’t make a real difference in the fit or function of setting the toilet.

Notice the closet flange slides about 2 inches into the soil pipe in the following photos; this allows for differences in height between the top of the soil pipe and the finished floor: Photo A and Photo B.

Part 12 of the series covers installing the closet flange and setting the toilet.

Thanks
Bob Jackson

]]> By: Chris Liptan http://www.handymanhowto.com/2008/10/19/finishing-a-basement-bathroom-part-5/#comment-1782 Chris Liptan Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:55:48 +0000 http://www.handymanhowto.com/?p=718#comment-1782 Hi great post. I'm doing an almost identical project in my basement. One question, do you think it makes any difference whether you cut off the toilet rough-in at the height of the concrete or the tile? I noticed you cut it at the concrete. Thanks, Chris Hi great post. I’m doing an almost identical project in my basement. One question, do you think it makes any difference whether you cut off the toilet rough-in at the height of the concrete or the tile? I noticed you cut it at the concrete.

Thanks,
Chris

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