They’re called toilet base plates or toilet risers. On one of the DIY shows they had one made out of corian...would not do wood.

If the flange is plastic (PVC, ABS, etc), then it should be a straight-forward process to cut it out, cut the pipe down, then install a new flange.

You can get taller toilets.

I've been looking at toilet base plates and most of those are very very low, like millimeters. There are very few toilet risers out there and it looks like none of them are porcelain. The most common one is actually plastic. Wow. Could not find any Corian ones. This is bad.

The flange is cast iron.

Re: taller toilets. I'm searching but so far have come up with nothing. Would love to get a taller toilet (taller base that can accommodate high flange). It looks to me like the tall toilets are taller as far as the seat height goes but the bases appear to be normal, not high enough for the flange.

Do it right. Have the toilet flange cut to the proper height. If you want a toilet with a higher seat, buy it and install it after the flange is corrected.

Sorry, no-can-do. DH says no.

Why don't you just pay for it out of your own money? Then there shouldn't be any complaining and the problem is fixed the right way, once and for all.

So I asked him about it and he is still adamantly opposed, saying it's a $1,000 job. Hmm I don't think it's that expensive.

We also had to raise a flange one time. The stupid people who lived here before us installed hardwood floors over top of tile and didn't bother to remove the toilet; they just ran the wood up to the toilet and cut the wood to fit around it! So the toilet was actually sitting below the level of the floor. When we remodeled the kitchen/family/powder room, we patched the floor, raise the flange and properly place the toilet on top of the wood, then refinished the whole downstairs as part of the remodel. The stupid people did the same thing when they came to the exterior door, just ran the wood up to where the door was and hacked it off. Didn't bother with removing the threshold, running wood all the way, putting new threshold, trimming door, etc. But I digress; it's been years and it still irks me!

ssarb,

Yep, I feel you. I curse the previous owner of my house all the time. When we bought our house, there were things that were literally taped together. They just didn't care at all.

The flange being too low is actually easier than being too high. Raising the flange involves adding an adapter of some kind, but lowering it involves cutting, which DH doesn't want to do. But I haven't found an acceptable solution yet.

DH says no, What do YOU say?

swiss_chard,

ssarb said it was just a couple hundred dollar repair when she had a toilet installed. Did you try to get 3 - 4 quotes from local plumbers to see what the cost of repair would be in your area? That would give you valid evidence that the repair would not cost $ 1,000. It wouldn't take very long to call around and get the estimates.

catbuilder,

What did I say? I said I don't want to drive him off the edge; he's already close to going out of his mind from the kitchen remodel that is also happening right now. But I also say I won't go for a hackjob. Decision time is 1-2 weeks away it looks like.

oneandonlybobjones,

We have a plumber we already use for stuff like this, and I'm thinking he'd probably quote $300 for this job, which DH thinks is money not worth spending (and of course, I disagree). My wifely instincts are telling me that if I wait a few weeks DH may be willing to revisit the issue, otherwise he and I are gonna be at a stuck point because unless there is a proper solution that doesn't look like a hackjob I'm not gonna go for it.

Closest thing so far is the toilet riser but it's plastic, which is a no-go in my book. I'd go for it if it was same material as toilet and less than $300.

I'm really shocked though that it appears that there aren't already toilets manufactured with high bases. I have contacted 2 toilet manufacturers so far and got no response! Wow!