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withered_preacher
Yup, the whole lower porcelain bit is called a pan here.
I’m not au fait with Canadian plumbing so I don’t know, but US toilets’ wastes go down through the floor, the soil pipe comes up flush (har har) and this wax ring goes on it that the porcelain sits on top of. It’s a weird and ancient system that continues probably because it just works, and it’s dead cheap.
In California the local building code decreed that waste pipes must all be copper or cast iron.
The cast iron joints were simple sockets you had to pack with oakum (like hemp string) then seal with molten lead.
Now that’s how the local union keeps plumbers in business and stop DIY!
Didn’t stop me having a crack at it though.
🙂