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Questions about heat and toilet floor area

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Gary Winzenburger:
Be careful not to over tighten these bolts, or you'll be buying a new toilet. Mine was doing the same thing and they just needed to be snugged down. They get a lot of movement over time.

John Padmore:
OK, so today must be my lucky day! I poked and pulled at the flange on the toilet and sure enough it came right off. Well, needless to say the floor was rotted underneath because the rather large screws pulled right out. So I managed to scrape out most of the rotted wood (about 1" deep) around the flange area and underneath the surrounding tile area about 1" or so. Coming from the boating community my thought is to dry out the area for a few days (add some acetone also) then completely fill the void with fiberglass resin and chopped mat. Then drill new holes for the flange and screw it down secure. Any thoughts? Thanks....

John

Oh yeah, the part about my lucky day. While scraping with my flat blade screwdriver around the open sewer pipe, can you guess what happened. Yup, right down the hole >:( Did you know you can go fishing with a magnet taped to a piece of string thru this pipe and if you are lucky you can get it back thru the opening :). The prevoius owner of this coach cleaned it so well he didn't even leave any TP. He was nice enough however to leave me a 1/2 tank of black water.....thanks Ron!

Steve Huber:
John,
Sounds like you've got to the reason for the movement. Probably a leak, so find the source. You may want to consider a toilet rebuild while you've got it out. I was able to get the rebuild parts for less than $100 at Camping  World. In any case, you definitely want to replace the flange and gasket. If you don't have a manual you can download it and find rebuild instructions on the web.
The fiberglass floor repair sounds a lot more effective than a wood based repair, although I'm far from an expert here.
Good Luck,  Steve

John Padmore:
Thanks Steve, the toilet rebuild is a good idea since it is out. I have some experience working with fiberglass so I think I can make a solid repair. Thanks for the help....

John

Richard And Babs Ames:
Putting screws into fiberglass. Will that hold. I do not know. But embedding studs in a less crisp media may last and hold better. I have a fiberglass genius neighbor. He even built a boat. Will ask him.

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