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Pulled off a $15 fix on a busted toilet flange and saved a $300 plumber call
Last Saturday morning, I walked into my rental's basement bathroom and found water creeping across the linoleum from the toilet base. Pulled the toilet off and saw the flange had a hairline crack right where the wax ring seats. Instead of calling a plumber and dropping three hundred bucks, I grabbed a $15 PVC repair ring from Home Depot, a tube of silicone caulk, and a cheap hacksaw. I cut away the cracked section, used the repair ring to clamp a new PVC piece over the old pipe, and sealed it with silicone. Took me about 2 hours including drying time, and the toilet has been solid for a week now. Has anyone else had luck with those repair rings for cracked flanges, or do you usually just replace the whole thing?
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knight.mason4mo ago
Stick with those repair rings, they work great on hairline cracks like that.
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valw364mo ago
Man hold up I gotta push back a little on that. Repair rings are fine for a hairline crack but you gotta be real careful with them. They work best when the crack is small and the pipe underneath is still solid. If that flange is cracked all the way through or the pipe is rotten then the ring just hides the problem and youll be back to square one in a few months. Ive seen guys slap a repair ring on a flange that was basically crumbling and it leaked again within weeks. The right move is to cut out the bad section and glue in a new piece of PVC if you can reach it. Gives you peace of mind for way longer than a bandaid fix.
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