How do I remove this toilet flange?

[RickFlorida]

Hi everyone. I have an old 1957 house in Florida and am remodeling one of the bathrooms. A few years ago, I switched out one of the toilet flanges to a plastic one, but I don't recall having so much trouble removing the steel one that is deteriorating. Now that I'm working a few years later on this current bathroom, I'm kind of stuck and don't know or remember how these are connected. It's a cast iron drain and don't know if the steel flange was originally screwed on or does it just pop or snap off? If I have to cut it out, what do you recommend I cut it out with? Then of course I have to get a plastic flange that connected to the inside of cast iron which you can get from Ferguson from what I remember.

Thanks for any tips,
Rick

 

[Twowaxhack]

Plug the drain with a towel and break the flange off with a hammer.

once it’s broken try to peel the lead out with the claw of the hammer or a chisel.

 

[RickFlorida]

Thank you so much! Ah, so it's leaded in most likely. That's what I was thinking. I should have know these don't screw in/on. Yes, I will definitely plug it with a test cap or something as I heard you don't want sparks with gas. LOL

 

[Twowaxhack]

Don’t worry about sparks with the little bit of sewer gas in that pipe. It’s not a thing.

 

[Twowaxhack]

The flange has a flat part where the bolts go. I break most of this off with a hammer.

Then I use a cold chisel to break the vertical portion of the flange in two places.

Then I try to dig the lead and oakum out.

Once that’s gone the rest of the flange wil lift right out.

 

[RickFlorida]

Thank you, sir!