toilet parts?

Question

I have a basement toilet installation, does someone make a toilet that has a different gasket height, (higher) , so that the closet flange sits higher into the toilet flage area. The one i have now (toilet) actual sit right on the closet flange having a slight rok.

Answer 1

Both postings are on the money EXEPT for one thing.

1. Yes, toilets are made to standard specs concerning flange placement.

2. Yes, raising the floor is an acceptable solution IF the problem actually is the flange hight and you'd rather not or cannot get into a whole project replacing/moving it.

BUT -

There is another possible reason for a toilet rocking on the flange.
You stated this was a basement but failed to mention if the floor was cement or a wood platform. If it is cement the floor may have been poured unevenly, in which case building a wood floor platform would give you a nice even floor for the entire room. Also the floor may be even and just the flange sticking up too high, again a raised wood platform floor would make it all nice.

BUT- here's another idea, you could make a template of the bottom of your toilet and make a simple wood base to raise the toilet only ( saving the work of doing the entire floor ). If your toilet is standart hight ( around 14 " to rim ) you can raise it a few comfortable inches and have a home grown Comfort Hight Toilet so many people are buying these days. If the toilet is already comfort hight ( 16 1/2 inches + to rim ) another 3/4" wont hurt and you'd have plenty of space for your wax ring and no rocking.

Here is the other scenario. If this is a basement with a wood floor ( weather framed wood platform or simply a piece of plywood laid down ) the wood around the toilet may be sagging/rotted and the toilet riding on the flange and/or a high spot, like where a joist or some frameage is. I've had people with this problem that didn't realise thier toilet was rocking because the floor was slightly rotted from a leaky wax ring, OR poor framing/construction !
Anyhow, so if you have any kind of wood floor under that thing make sure it is solid and not moving at all. If not completely solid rip 'er up, frame 'er out and replank it. A good solid floor is the first basis for a nice leak free future.

And if you do raise the floor above the flange and then find it too high or something wierd your local home centers have a special spacer to take up that space in the plumbing dept. were the flanges are.

Good luck !

Answer 2

From all that I have ever seen in toilets the spacing is the same.

It would seem to me that you have to lower the flange or raise the floor around the toilet.

The raising the floor would be the easier. You just have to out down some new flooring. Thick enough to do what you want.

They do sell a plastic base that you set down & then put the toilet down. It is shaped some what like the base of the toilet.
This may be just thick enough to do the job.

Home Depots catalouge company sells one for around $10.00.

At least I think thats what I paid.

Answer 3

Floyd B is right. I would put down a floor to raise it to the toilet height.
It is that or tear it up and lower the flange. Not impossible to do but a pain in the butt.
The flange was probably installed a little high.