Leaky toilet -- more than caulk??
My 1994 PleasureWay has a small leak around the toilet -- where the base of the toilet meets the floor of the bathroom. There's caulk around about 1/3 of the toilet, it's leaking from a portion that ...
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CTD wrote:
Probably the caulk was an effort to add rigidity to the toilet. Most likely the reason it wasn't caulked all the way, was to allow a warning you have a seal leak. FWIW
This is why I always leave an opening on the back of a residential toilet...don't want to trap a leak, you want a warning long before the floor rots out.... but as said previously, RV toilets are not normally caulked. Could be someone was trying to hide a problem, possible not knowing any better.
Changing out the rubber flange gasket is a pretty easy fix for someone handy if the above fixes are not the problem...yes Rubber, not wax RV DOC agrees with me.
However, be careful what youtube videos you watch. I was going to post one for you here....first one I looked at....they put the bolts on the toilet, then tried to rotate them onto the flange.:S
