"hoops" wrote in message
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my upstairs toilet started to leak (water was leaking out of lights on
ground floor), so i pulled it up and it looks like i need to re-install
some octagonal tile; put on a new wax ring an then re-seat the toilet.
the toilet had been rocking side to side, but i'm not sure exactly where
the water was coming out of, but it looks like it just needs a reinstall.

but...

when the toilet was installed whomever installed it cracked up some old
tile to fill in the voids around the octagonal tile and the round flange.
it looks like he just adhered those pieces in a bed of tile adhesive or
grout ontop of some substrate.. the top of the flange is about 1/4 inch
higher than the floor.

rather than try to piece together what was there, i thought i'd relay the
tile and then fill in the void with something like Bondo (fiberglass resin
autobody filler). the stuff hardens quickly and can be made level with
just a putty knife. i'd say there are areas of up to 1" between the edge
of the tile and the flange.

good idea or is there something else i should consider? thanks in advance



If it won't be visible it should not hurt anything. Why not just use
fix-all, dries fast, cheap and hard. I would shim the toilet when you
reinstall it should not rock, that's why it's leaking the rocking broke the
wax ring seal. What I like to do is when I caulk it to the tile or any
flooring I leave about a one inch spot in the back without caulk. Leaves a
path for water to get out if you should get a leak. Easy to notice then.