 Roots around flange (by DJ [VA]) Oct 5, 2025 9:53 PM
 Roots around flange (by RB [TN]) Oct 5, 2025 9:59 PM
Roots around flange (by Ray-N-Pa [PA]) Oct 6, 2025 7:07 AM
Roots around flange (by LisaFL [FL]) Oct 6, 2025 7:42 AM
Roots around flange (by Busy [WI]) Oct 6, 2025 8:27 AM
Roots around flange (by DJ [VA]) Oct 6, 2025 11:59 AM
Roots around flange (by Robin [WI]) Oct 7, 2025 6:34 AM
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Roots around flange (by DJ [VA]) Posted on: Oct 5, 2025 9:53 PM
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Helping a friend reno her bathroom.
Removed the toilet today to find a plethora of little roots that had grown up all around the edge of the cast iron toilet flange. Between the flange and the poured concrete slab floor.
Never seen this before - maybe you have?
Wondering if we should apply some sort of root killer somehow, before replacing the toilet.
Earlier this summer, she had a HUGE, old tree removed whose canopy - and surely (these) roots extended over the house. So, that isn't there any more. Is it safe to assume, then, that they will not grow back?
No, we are not removing the cast iron flange.
Thanks
--72.218.xx.xxx |
Roots around flange (by RB [TN]) Posted on: Oct 5, 2025 9:59 PM
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Pro Plumber with Camera. --204.10.xxx.xx |
Roots around flange (by Ray-N-Pa [PA]) Posted on: Oct 6, 2025 7:07 AM
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Best product out there is Root-X. Sewer authority loves it. The bad news, it lasts only a couple of years after you cut, jet the line and apply it. I have never seen that many roots before. If they are there, they have to messing with the foundation too. It is time to get rid of that shade tree --67.140.xx.xxx |
Roots around flange (by LisaFL [FL]) Posted on: Oct 6, 2025 7:42 AM
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I once pulled a root ball the diameter and length of my forearm out of a toilet flange. It was so incredible I saved a photo. I have no idea how the toilet was flushing at all. We had no large trees, only some recently removed bushes. Plumber said, it happens. --75.89.xxx.xxx |
Roots around flange (by Busy [WI]) Posted on: Oct 6, 2025 8:27 AM
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The tree will try to grow green shoots at the stump for photosynthesis before any additional root growth. If the tree stump is sprouting, she'll need to make some fresh cuts into the bark, and apply some glyphosate there. The glyphosate needs to get into the trees vascular system, which is that moist layer where the bark of the tree meets the wood.
If there is no more green growth anywhere at the stump, it is probably safe to say the tree is dead, no need for glyphosate. Unless it is a black locust, or aspen, or other rhizomal type of tree. Those trees, rather than just having a single trunk, will have made a colony of trunks. Not likely to be a rhizomal type tree, or she have them sprouting hither and yon throughout the yard. --72.135.xxx.xx |
Roots around flange (by DJ [VA]) Posted on: Oct 6, 2025 11:59 AM
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Thanks everybody
A bit more clarity:
It's not IN the drain pipe, but around it. Fortunately
Not gown over the hole
To plug it.
Thanold wX ring was cockeyed & had a leakpoint - probably
How the tree got a taste under the slab.
The stump was all ground up - it's not coming back --172.56.xxx.xxx |
Roots around flange (by Robin [WI]) Posted on: Oct 7, 2025 6:34 AM
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I've been working on the basement of a 1910 house that was built without a footer. I found roots growing up through the concrete. The water line had been leaking for several years while it was vacant, so there was plenty of water attracting the roots.
I cut the roots back as far as possible, removed the source tree, and poured salt water in the area with the roots. No regrowth so far.... --66.91.xxx.xx |
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