Gap In Tile, At Bottom Of Toilet?

Question

What can I put here? (http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h124/pringle500/HPIM6043.jpg ) I have a gap that I want to fill before caulking the bottom of the toilet. Thanks.

Answer 1

I would place grout there and then seal it with a grout sealer. Cutting tile and removing the toilet is to much when grout would be good then caulk around the toilet.

Answer 2

You have to unbolt your toilet and clean area of thinset and grout.Then add a piece of tile into that empty space.After adhesive is dry, grout the joints.

   DON'T forget to shut water 1st. and drain the tank of any water using a sponge.  Good Luck

Answer 3

pull your toilet up, put another piece of tile down, grout, and caulk your toilet.

Answer 4

If it was me I would slip a little sliver of tile in there as it looks like it is going onto something solid (easier if you can lift the pan) and then grout up to match - I would have tiled the floor before finally fixing the pan, though. I wouldn't accept the 'professional' solution on one of my sites.

Answer 5

Grout it in or cut a small piece of tile and put it in place without removing the toilet.  

Personally I would caulk the bottom of the toilet after correcting the problem.  

The biggest concern isn't knowing when the plumbing is backing up or not, it is the sewer gas that escapes from the drain pipe if or when the toilet separates from wax ring.  If there is any movement at all they will separate in time.  Sewer gases are dangerous.

Looking at the photo it looks like the grout lines are straight and either grouting or cutting a small piece of tile to span the gap will do just fine.

Good Luck with your project

Answer 6

You can try to cut a small piece of tile and place in the space. Or as a professional I would just fill the space with grout. It is so small and behind the toilet that is not seen that easy so filling the space with the same color of grout would be OK.

Answer 7

It depends how adept you are at cutting tile.  It's really not such a big deal to pull up a toilet and re-set it, so if you want to get anal about it you could pull the toilet and set in a new piece of tile, assuming you have some of the original tile around.  Or, if you don't want to pull the toilet, you can chisel out the grout that's in the hole now, and cut a small piece of tile in a shape you can just drop in place.

You do NOT want to caulk around the bottom of the toilet for one simple reason: if you  ever develop a clog or leak in the wax ring and water from the drain backs up and collects under the toilet, you want it to run out so you can see you have a problem.  If you caulk around the bottom of the toilet it will hold the water in like a dam and you might not notice the leak.

If I were doing it and I had spare tile I would probably just pull up the toilet and see what's up under there.  Makes me wonder why there is a missing piece.  There might be other pieces missing under the toilet.  The closet flange is supposed to be sitting on top of the finished floor surface, but I bet in this case it isn't.  Some hack probably tiled the floor and left the closet flange where it was and tiled more or less up to it, so now your flange is probably at the wrong height.  Not to worry, though.  If a hack tiled the floor in a few years the whole thing will probably bow up and the tiles will start to crack and break and you will have to rip it all up anyway, so this one missing piece is just a temporary incovenience.

By the way, just because somebody says they are a "pro" and they would do it such and such a way, doesn't carry much weight with me.  I've seen work done by so-called "pros" and they seem to take the easiest, fastest, sloppiest way out, cutting corners whenever possible and in general doing crappy work.  Do it the way you want it done, not the way some some short-cut happy "pro" would do it.

Answer 8

If it were me, I would buy some concrete filler (comes in a caulking tube) then I would purchase some paints from a crafting section and mix colors until cam up with a color that matches or comes close to matching and paint it, then caulk. (or you could take a tile in and have them match the color, would be a little more expensive though because you don't need much). Any way that is what I would do.

Answer 9

Just grout it in.

Easiest fix for the DIYer.

Answer 10

good answers! I'm also a pro and I'm with roger grout will work just fine. i use grout under toilets on tile not caulk. if it really bothers you will have to pull the toilet and as others have suggested clean and place another piece of tile.