If you watch her follow-up video, it really does seem as if the hole is looking down over something:
Again, a fix of what? Your hypotheticals sound like the tile being installed after the toilet.Or... really crappy installation... that someone accepted a substandard 'fix' for... that failed because it wasn't done right.
It's not far-fetched to imagine a company don't crap work also has people that would approve and accept substandard fixes. Fixes that could be applied before customer acceptance... combined with a customer who is too apathetic for their own good and doesn't actually oversee the job.
It's a 40+ year old building... how many retrofits and have been made in that space that probably didn't include complete material replacement? Retrofit a fixture onto an existing wall..
Bob: "oh look this one's finish surface is 1" shorter than the last one.. "
Bill: "close enough.. the gap will be covered by the finish tile..." or "screw it
Joe: "man, look at this crappy plumbing job... now look at this hack I gotta do to cover that.."
Sam on walk-through: "do all the fixtures work? good enough for me..."
Standards only work if the people apply them and don't accept substandard stuff. It's not like hidden hacks are anything new in the industry.
The caulk job in that thing is a mess anyway. Way too big and already separating from the toilet and not just in that one spot. Clearly its trying to cover up some other inferior job behind it. If it was tilework or wallboard that wasn't replaced fully or a toilet not mounted well vs the finish surface. Looks hacky across the board.
No one would go back through and add finish and crap caulk to make their peephole look like authentic construction slop
What then would be supporting the toilet?
No, the tile can be installed over inferior wallboard work too.. or the tile and fixture could have been damaged in a prior incident and the repair work didn't deal with the wall+tile as it should.
I don't know. I agree with you that it seems spatially and structurally illogical, so I suppose I must simply be misreading what the video is showing.
Repairs sort of require you to see what you are doing, especially in an application that only has 2” of tolerance vertically and horizontally. So even if this was a repair or a redo, why was that hole there to begin with? Just a random hole punched through and ignored so a hole was also punched into the tile in the same spot?
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That doesn't make sense. How can there be a CMU wall behind it? Aside from the needs of the toilet itself for securing it, plumbing, etc., you clearly can see something behind the wall. That's not possible if it's backed by a CMU wall.I don't know if this sheds any light, but according to The Daily Dot, someone responding to the footage on TikTok wrote: “That’s a solid cinder block wall behind there with nothing but a 15” wide pipe chase for maintenance access. I used to clean those bathrooms.”
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A wall getting damaged in a public washroom where a toilet is installed is not some super stretch... or crappy work where substrate is just covered by finish work assuming no one will know/see. They could have had to break out tile and replace and screwed up the wall in doing so.. then just figured the toliet fixture would cover the area.
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I interpreted the comment as meaning that the solid wall was behind the 15” space for maintenance access. But I confess to knowing nothing about how such a space should or can be configured.
Oh, gotcha. I didn't get that. If the back wall of the space behind the bathroom wall is CMU, I believe that's possible. I'll defer to @lazyboy97o as he seems to know more. I believe commercial grade toilets require about 14" to 18" of space minimum depending on design, what it's backing up to, etc. I don't know if that's the case for the design of that building.
Block walls are pretty common. I believe the new Ratatouille restrooms are block.
No, the block would be right behind the fixture. Carrier, wall, fixture. The tile in a block restroom would typically be placed right onto the block.
Thanks for that info. The only bathrooms with block walls I've seen have had floor mounted fixtures. I don't always pay that close attention though.
The toilet isn’t attached to the wall, it’s bolted through the wall underneath the seat.
I don't think you are actually seeing something moving through the hole, I think that is simply caused by the camera movement.
