Shoutout to the $8 rubber toilet flange over the $25 wax ring kit, saved me a whole weekend
My downstairs toilet started leaking at the base about 3 weeks ago and I was about to buy the fancy wax ring kit everyone talks about. My neighbor who used to do plumbing work told me to grab a rubber flange seal instead for 8 bucks at the hardware store down in Tulsa. I put it in on a Saturday morning, took me 20 minutes, and it hasn't dripped once since. The wax ring I pulled out was cracked and squished, and honestly I think the rubber one is just gonna hold up better down the road. Anyone here run the rubber ones long term and had them fail, or are they actually as solid as this guy claims?