How To Install A Toilet Clamp Ring In Cement Floor

Standard toilets have a measurement of 12 from the wall to the floor bolts.

How to install a toilet clamp ring in cement floor.

Press the rounded side of the wax ring over the pipe stub that surrounds the opening on the bottom of the toilet. 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. Tilt up the toilet and push the new wax ring into place. If using a plastic flange ring be careful not to crack the ring by screwing the anchors in too far.

Step 1 measure the distance from the wall to the floor bolts before removing. You can rest the new toilet bowl on its side on a padded surface to protect the floor and the toilet and attach the replacement wax ring to the bottom of the bowl. I had to complete a couple of toilet flange installs on a concrete floor. Use a pencil or grease pen to mark the drill holes around its circumference.

Press firmly all the way around the wax ring but don t deform it. You have two options for placing the new wax ring. Pick up the toilet again bending at the knees and not the back. Pros usually prefer to apply the wax ring this way in order to guarantee a good seal around the toilet.

With the drainage pipe ready the floor flange must be installed. Line the bolts up on the sides of the bowl and gently place the toilet on the repaired flange and press to the floor. Yesterday while making my rounds a tenant in one of the apartments approached me and mentioned their toilet was loose. Fit the flange over the pipe to place it flat against the concrete floor.

The benefit to this technique is that you can be sure that the ring is in the proper position when placing the toilet over the 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. With the toilet flange in place you are ready to install the toilet with a new wax ring. Clean up around the bottom of the toilet and place the new wax ring on the repaired flange.