Toilets, Sinks, Showers, Tubs and Disposals - Wet floor under leaky toilet

So it has come time to replace the toilet as we bought our home with a leaker, actually three it looks like, one in each bathroom. The first bathroom I'm tackling, under the carpet around the toilet, the carpet, the tack strips and the plywood are all wet. Behind the toilet more so. I've removed the toilet and am thinking I need to rip out that plywood and put a new piece down. It looks like I can get away with a small piece that would surround just the toilet. Do I need to remove the flange to put new plywood down? If so, thoughts or comments on where to start?

Thanks...
Kevin

You need to have enough support for the toilet. If there is already support, you can split the flooring and go around the flange and pipe. You didn't say if the pipe was cast iron or PVC. This makes a big difference in the labor it takes to replace the flange. The flange nneds to be secured to the floor with screws through the 4 holes in the flange. If the old floor was moving, the wax seal probably broke it's seal and thats why the toilet(s) leaked. reply back and let us know the situation. Good luck.

It is PVC. Are you able to post pictures? If so, I could do that or email it to get an idea.

kw

You can post pics here. All the VB codes are open. You may need to put the pics into a system such as Photo Bucket to get them to open here.

hmm... call me computer literate, but I'm not up on my vb. I used to do some basic HTML, but that's about it.

kw

You can send and copy photos to Photo Bucket and then send them to your post in DIY. Don't feel bad about being computer illiterate, so am I.

Okay, here goes for a first try. Let me know how it goes. And any thoughts you may have after seeing the picture.


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Pics came in great. Judging by the seam I see that is running top to bottom, I would say that you will have to run a couple support beams across from right to left to support the new plywood. Not a big deal. Whatever the size of your floor joists, just get the same size and run two of them, one on each side of the pipe.

Not knowing too much about plumbing, does the flange need to be cut out or is it screwed in?

kw

Not likely in any circumstance that it is screwed on. It is either leaded in (if cast iron) or glued (if PVC). If you reinforce the joists, you can cut a hole that is split in half and just replace the plywood.

Great, good news. Just cut out the wood, reinforce and put in new plywood. Should be easy enough.

Thank you for your help.