This might help you if you are trying to set a toilet with a high flange.
Set a toilet flange over heated floor.
Leaky broken or misaligned toilets are a hassle for everyone involved.
You also want to make sure the toilet sits level and does not rock on the floor as this can compromise the seal.
Press a new wax ring tight to the flange.
Use a ratchet wrench to tighten the four stainless steel screws that secure the flange to the floor.
This video shows the correct way of how to install a new toilet flange over tile floor step by step.
The fitting that connects the toilet to the drain pipe underneath.
Place a level on the back of the toilet.
Push the toilet carefully to the.
Set it back into position over the floor drain making sure the holes in the toilet base slide over the flange bolts.
Insert two new closet bolts into the slots in the closet flange.
Can you guess how the floor flange is attached to the concrete floor i don t recall.
The sioux chief flange is installed above tile with the.
This particular toilet flange was 5 8 above the floor level.
Too bad more folks haven t asked this question before they set the flange on the sub floor and later wonder why the toilet leaks around the wax ring.
When you are replacing a toilet or resetting an existing toilet after a repair there are a few key things to check to ensure a good seal and prevent leaks.
Then i leave a gap of 1 4 or so to the rest of the flooring that will be.
I installed one of my toilets a couple or three years ago so my memory is a bit foggy.
A key component to toilet installation is the closet flange.
Seems like the floor flange was pretty rusted and some just plain eaten away built around 76.
By asking the question now you have saved yourself a great deal of grief.
I used a flange repair ring and got by.
So what i am thinking is i basically cut a round or square i guess now that i think about it piece to go under the flange.
Or just as bad setting the flange so that it is sticking up above the finished floor and wondering why the toilet rocks.
Set the toilet on top of the flange making sure the two closet bolts pass through the holes in the toilet s base.
