Includes how to remove a toilet bowl or pan and cistern and install the new ones.
How to install toilet pan to floor.
2 mix the sand cement add one 20kg bag of sand cement to a large bucket and add 3.
Then make an outline of the toilet on the floor with masking tape.
To install a new toilet first turn off the water supply and remove the old toilet.
Remove the toilet and turn it on its side.
Score the floor tiles with a tile cutter or angle grinder to allow the bedding to set on a roughened surface to ensure adequate binding.
There must be a 3 inch diameter drainage pipe rising up from the concrete as well as a water supply pipe coming from an adjacent wall.
This is by far one of the most important parts to the a new toilet installation.
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.
Fit a new seal around the drain hole in the floor and make sure it s tight.
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.
Remove any dust or loose materials from the tiles.
If the toilet flange sits below the finished floor the toilet will leak.
The first thing that needs to be done when installing a toilet on concrete is to make sure that the place you intend to install the toilet has the necessary pipes.
This video covers how to install a toilet.
Next move your caulk gun to the inset depth you just measured and apply caulk directly to the floor maintaining the inset depth as you follow the tape.
Then lift the toilet onto the floor bolts and jiggle it a bit to seal the drainage hole.
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.
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.
How to install a new toilet what s the first step.
Carefully mark the outline of the area to be covered by the toilet pan.
Dry fit the flange to the soil pipe and the soil pipe to the closet bend to ensure the flange s collar rests on the floor.
Install the soil pipe and closet flange photo by david carmack.
How to attach them safely to the.