On Oct 13, 1:04*pm, "EXT" wrote:
"mike" wrote in message

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On Oct 13, 9:30 am, "EXT" wrote:

install with the seal and bolts. The tape will prevent the thinset from
bonding the toilet permanently to the floor.

If I was looking to buy a house and I saw that somone had thinset/
mortar/grout under the toilet, I'd knock $1000 off the price of the
house or look at another house.

When buying a house a $1000.00 is nothing, unless you live somewhere real
cheap where it can make or break a deal. Read the original post, he is
installing a basement toilet on top or rough concrete. I wouldn't want that
either for myself. But, adding a layer of thinset under the toilet and
cleaning up the edges would not look any worse than any other part of the
concrete floor. The trick is to avoid bonding the toilet to the floor and
doing a neat cleanup around the toilet. If you do that you would never know
there was a thin leveling layer of thinset under the toilet.

would not look any worse than any other part of the concrete
floor.

It sounds like you are assuming that the floor will be left
unfinished, not something I am able to gleen from the OP.

When I was installing a toilet on a concrete slab, I found that it
rocked. I used enough leveling compound to bring up the low spots and
then feathered the edges out way from the toilet. A sheet of linoleum,
extended under the toilet, covers all...