DIYbanter - View Single Post - caulking around toilet base

(dando) writes:

As I see it, the pros to caulking are extra assurance of sealing in sewer
gases, and cleanliness around the floor (if junior goes hog wild with the
pee pee for instance, it doesn't find a nice hard to reach home under the
toilet.) Yuck.

Every time you mop, dirty water goes under the toilet. Caulk it. Use a
silicone caulk that will peel off easily. Another advantage of silicone
is that nothing sticks to it, so it is easy to keep clean.

If you install a toilet properly, it will be many years before it leaks,
if ever. Usually a toilet leak is caused by differential foundation
settling against the old cast iron soil pipe, which didn't even have a
flange. Toilet leakage is not a problem with modern plumbing.

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