With the drainage pipe ready the floor flange must be installed.
How to install a toilet clamp ring in cement floor.
Pros usually prefer to apply the wax ring this way in order to guarantee a good seal around the toilet.
Press firmly all the way around the wax ring but don t deform it.
Yesterday while making my rounds a tenant in one of the apartments approached me and mentioned their toilet was loose.
If using a plastic flange ring be careful not to crack the ring by screwing the anchors in too far.
With the toilet flange in place you are ready to install the toilet with a new wax ring.
This is so that no new water rushes into the toilet basin while you re busy trying to remove it 2 x research sourcestep 3.
Standard toilets have a measurement of 12 from the wall to the floor bolts.
Fit the flange over the pipe to place it flat against the concrete floor.
Step 1 measure the distance from the wall to the floor bolts before removing.
Use a pencil or grease pen to mark the drill holes around its circumference.
You have two options for placing the new wax ring.
This is basically a durable plastic ring which fits over the drainage pipe to create a place where the toilet can gain solid purchase.
Pick up the toilet again bending at the knees and not the back.
Press the rounded side of the wax ring over the pipe stub that surrounds the opening on the bottom of the toilet.
I had to complete a couple of toilet flange installs on a concrete floor.
Screw the toilet flange onto the concrete use tapcon anchors or a similar type of masonry concrete screws to fasten the toilet flange to the concrete slab.
Here at our wall street apartments.
Clean up around the bottom of the toilet and place the new wax ring on the repaired flange.
If your toilet measures 12 you can expect to buy any standard toilet and install it comfortably in the existing location without much hassle 1 x research sourcestep 2 turn off the water off at the supply valve.
Tilt up the toilet and push the new wax ring into place.
