Tile gap around toilet pipe

[Tomcatspike]

Hi,

We recently brought a new house and it's a bit of a fixer-upper, think the previous owner was a bit slap dash with his DIY.

One thing we've noticed is the toilet flange is below the tiled floor and would fill the gap in the tiling around it for cosmetic reasons. The toilet is ground floor and I think the pipe goes directly into the concrete. Any suggestions on the best way to fill around the pipe? Eventually we will re-tile the floor entirely so only a temporary fix for cosmetic reasons is required at present.

Pic related, sorry it looks filthy!

 

[Tigercubrider]

Cut a bit of thin ply to fit and paint it?

You might even find a pack of sticky plastic floor tiles in a suitable colour

 

[Tomcatspike]

Not a bad idea thanks. I was thinking about just filling the area with tile grout but wasn't sure if that was advisable around a toilet flange? The wax ring doesn't seem to be visible so maybe it's under that collar

 

[Tigercubrider]

Add grout by all means but you will then have to remove it.

Depends on the term "eventually"

Are visitors really going to be nosing around the back of the loo?

 

[Madrab]

Wax rings aren't usually used in the UK, they're more of an American connection method. Looks like you have a pan connector dropped into the soil pipe that's in the floor. As @Tigercubrider mentions, pop off to one of the sheds and get some vinyl sticky tiles if it really needs filled.