removing old toilet

[juniorbeep]

Hi all, hope you can help. I am thinking of replacing an old toilet. The old toilet is cemented into the drain socket and I'll probably have to break the old toilet to remove it ...which is fine. I know I should break the toilet on the down part of the outlet pipe, lift the toilet away put a rag or two into the drain socket and chip away the remaining pan out let. I want to use a flexible push on connector on the new toilet so should I litrally remove all the cement collar down to floor level (concrete floor) so I'm litrally left with a hole in the ground or should the collar remain intact just with all the old bits of the toilet removed?

Many thanks
rob

 

[kevplumb]

you can remove the collar
mind your fingers that pot is bl**dy sharp

 

[juniorbeep]

cheers for the help!