Just cemented a WC pan to the floor.

[WaterTight]

Previous one had been and on smashing it out of position and chiseling away the lump of cement with the SDS it made a much more uneven surface then I ended up with last couple times I did it (done twice, both time the pan-grabbing cement came off in nice clean bits leaving a reasonably flat floor.)

I know the proper way would be to sort the floor out properly first, but time was an issue, friday was upon me and it's their only WC so I made up a bucket of quick dry cement, patted down a layer to roughly level with floor, then 10 mins later made a small mound in shape of pan outline and chucked the pan on top and squished it about until it was straight and level, wiped off excess etc. Half hour later it was solid as a rock and I'd already tested no leaks at pan connector.

I know it's not ideal and if anything needed to be done to soil connection it's goodbye pan but since it worked how bad a move was that?

My theory is it's not like supergluing a cheap tap to a bath or something. But yeah if they call me in a month to say the pan connector is leaking...

 

[dave1]

Done loads like that a few years back, it'll be fine.

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

If you had time you could gun the floor level ish then latex but that's gonna take a while to dry!

 

[Chalked]

Nothing wrong with that. Been done like that for years.

 

[Best]

Had to do that many times. It was an easy way to bed a pan down - particularly if it was just a rough job, like on an outside loo.
Usually they were put down in ordinary sand & cement, but first the concrete floor needed a hole cut out of it, an inch or so deep to let the mortar grab the floor.
I used to hate replacing them if they were the only toilet in the house, but using quick setting is handy.

 

[Toggles]

Should be fine so long as you check flush and waste pipes are connected properly before cement goes off 😉

I used this method in each property in a block of 100 flats years ago due to gas pipe running under wc pans !

 

[plumben]

I'd of just got the floor level with the rapid set and then sit the pan on temp until I could come back and screed but if the moneys not in the job.

Although I don't see anything wrong with cementing the pan down, I just like making life easy for myself or the next plumber

 

[P J F PLUMBING]

Do it all the time

 

[CXR100]

I have done loads like this, when im replacing outside toilets I fit low level ones, so fixing the pan connector wont be a problem as its going down thru the floor, if it was going out thru a wall I think I would sort the floor out