I had a thread about 2 years ago concerning a leaky toilet and my experiences with a sloppy-good-for-nothing plumber here:
https://www.plumbingforums.com/thre...ne-wrong-would-you-redo-this.8765/#post-75596
After that experience I knew the toilet needed to be pulled out again, both wax rings old & new removed (see my thread above for explanation) and replaced, but since the leak had stopped (and my complete lack of time & the needed motivation to fix all this myself the right way) I just left it alone.
But now it has started leaking again underneath the same way, and I cannot tighten the bolts down any further for fear of cracking the toilet itself. So I need to tackle this now after all. Will have quite a mess underneath thx to the plumber to clean up..sigh...
As part of this I would like to know your learned opinion - after cleaning out all the old wax should I use a wax ring this time, or instead try a "WaxFree" one? I still have an unused wax ring I was going to use at the time myself b4 I opted mistakenly to let a "professional" do the job (again see my thread above for how that worked out) and also I bought a "WaxFree" one today thinking maybe that would work better & be less messy. Any opinions on one vs the other?
Also something else that had crossed my mind is that the toilet is not flushing/filling that great anymore and I need to replace the fill valve as well, which I last did about 5-10 years ago, which is ez to do. I wonder if maybe with all this other hassle/mess in having to pull the old one off and clean it up then try to reseal that maybe I should just by a new toilet and start from scratch. This toilet is 25 years old. Should I bother trying to fix it (which is minor I hope) or just get a new one, what would you do?
https://www.plumbingforums.com/thre...ne-wrong-would-you-redo-this.8765/#post-75596
After that experience I knew the toilet needed to be pulled out again, both wax rings old & new removed (see my thread above for explanation) and replaced, but since the leak had stopped (and my complete lack of time & the needed motivation to fix all this myself the right way) I just left it alone.
But now it has started leaking again underneath the same way, and I cannot tighten the bolts down any further for fear of cracking the toilet itself. So I need to tackle this now after all. Will have quite a mess underneath thx to the plumber to clean up..sigh...
As part of this I would like to know your learned opinion - after cleaning out all the old wax should I use a wax ring this time, or instead try a "WaxFree" one? I still have an unused wax ring I was going to use at the time myself b4 I opted mistakenly to let a "professional" do the job (again see my thread above for how that worked out) and also I bought a "WaxFree" one today thinking maybe that would work better & be less messy. Any opinions on one vs the other?
Also something else that had crossed my mind is that the toilet is not flushing/filling that great anymore and I need to replace the fill valve as well, which I last did about 5-10 years ago, which is ez to do. I wonder if maybe with all this other hassle/mess in having to pull the old one off and clean it up then try to reseal that maybe I should just by a new toilet and start from scratch. This toilet is 25 years old. Should I bother trying to fix it (which is minor I hope) or just get a new one, what would you do?