Mounting Toilet To Wood Floor

With a utility knife cut around the base of the toilet through the carpet and padding.

Mounting toilet to wood floor.

Alternate from one side of the toilet to the other as you tighten the nuts a little at a time. That doesn t always provide a good enough bond to the floor. You ll find these to the left and right of the toilet base below the bowl. Remove the 2 nuts that attach the toilet to the floor.

Be careful not to over tighten the nuts and crack the porcelain bowl. I can remember when i started my apprenticeship as a plumber every toilet pan was secured to the floor with a sand and cement mix mortar. Before removing the toilet you will need to disconnect the water supply line drain all the water and remove two nuts. To cut the carpet back set the new toilet in place directly over the toilet flange.

They may be covered by plastic caps if so just pop these off by hand. Toilets should be caulked to the floor to prevent side to side movement that can break the wax seal and to prevent splashes or overflows from puddling under the toilet and rotting the floor. Place a washer and nut on each toilet bowl bolt and evenly tighten the nuts onto the bolts. Hammer a shim gently between the floor and the toilet base to bring a low side up.

My toilet mounts directly to the floor which is concrete and tile. Then unscrew the nuts from the bolts counterclockwise by hand or with a socket or crescent wrench. There used to be two bolts that came out of the floor to mount the toilet to but both are extremely corroded and they just pulled out of the floor while i was replacing the wax ring. Diyers often set the toilet and then apply a tiny bead of caulk along the outside edge.

10bolt toilet to floor. A properly sized extender raises the flange height to within 1 16 inch of the floor surface. Next set the toilet. We would place the toilet pan on the floor and mark out the foot print with a pencil and the remove it again the next step would be to cut a hole in the floor under the pan for a key this would create a lock between the pan and the floor.

Mount the toilet on the extended flange apply wood floor caulk around the toilet base and you re done fixing the toilet to the wooden floor. Place the carpenters level across the toilet bowl side to side and note where the bubble level is.