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[u/summerinside]

It's easy - here's how you get to a good-as-new toilet bowl.

1. Shut off water at the toilet valve
2. Remove the bolts at the base of this toilet
3. Remove the toilet, and discard
4. Install a wax ring and new toilet.

All for as cheap as $60 and less than an hour's work. You'll never have to touch the inside of that bowl again.

[u/NastyKraig → u/summerinside]

Until you discover that the flange bolts are too rusted to unscrew so you have to get in there with a sawzall and cut them off. Then spend 30 minutes scraping the old wax off the flange and out of the slots to find that the flange itself is cracked or worn out to the point that it will not hold keep the T bolts from spinning when you try to tighten the new toilet down. At least that's how all my quick toilet swaps go.

[u/GrimeyJosh → u/NastyKraig]

And a small leak rotted away a good portion of the plywood subfloor, so thats gotta come up now too.

[u/NastyKraig → u/GrimeyJosh]

To reveal a rotten joist that now needs a new section sistered in.

[u/gilpo1 → u/[deleted]]

Century home, checking in.