On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 22:53:29 -0400, Rebel1
wrote:


It would appear that the old caulk was damming back the water, but there
was no caulk at the back of the toilet because it was too hard to reach
that spot. So any dammed water could have escaped at the back.

I remember reading a recommendation that when caulking the base of a
toilet, to leave an inch in the back uncaulked, so that leaking would
show up on the floor, to be fixed.