"B" wrote in
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Yes, do what Tom Baker says.

"Tom Baker" wrote in message
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dando wrote in message
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Replacing flooring in my bathroom, so eventually I will have to
make
this
choice.

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.

Negative is if the toilet leaks under the base, how would you know
it? Yuck.

So could a solution in my case, assuming the floor is level, be to
drill
a
hole in the subfloor somewhere in the area that will be covered by
the toilet, so that any leak will be noticed dripping into the
brickfloored
old
cellar? (I could even use a hole with a rubber stopper that I
could remember to check periodically?

What do you think?

More toilet and subfloor questions to follow no doubt.

Thanks all.

Caulk and leave an inch or two in the back where water can escape.
That location should not going to get too much water shoved into it.

TB




Yeah, that solution had occurred to me as well. Downside is if the toilet
ever gets stopped up so that it overflows, that location probably will get
some water in it, and then then might get moldy underneath. Still worth
considering. Its a rental unit, so odds of things like a toilet getting
stopped increase due to idiots that don't care what they attempt to flush
down it.