Tighten Toilet To Floor

Just make sure the flange is flush tight with the top of the floor otherwise your toilet will wobble.

Tighten toilet to floor.

All repairs on floor and walls must be complete and all glues caulks or grouts dry. As long as you re doing some work you might as well make sure it s nice and tightened up. In this video i show you how to fix a shaking or wobbly toilet. Sit on the toilet and transfer your weight in all directions to help seat the wax ring correctly.

15 trim bolts with hacksaw. 16 install bolt caps over the closet bolts. The mounting bolts attach your toilet to a flange a sturdy ring of plastic or metal. 17 check to make sure toilet is tight to floor and doesn t rock.

Check the other bolt to make sure it is equally snug then test the toilet for rocking. Check the mounting bolts. As long as your loose toilet doesn t have a broken flange you can usually tighten the bolts with a crescent wrench to resolve the problem but don t overdo it or the porcelain may break. I show you 2 easy ways to you can stop it from shaking and secure it to the floor.

Stop tightening once the toilet sits securely. Test fit the toilet over the flange. Check the condition of the flange. You can go ahead and make sure you turn off the water disassemble those bolts pull the toilet off of the floor replace that wax seal.

Your rocking toilet. This is not uncommon. Pry off the two plastic bolt caps located one on each side of your toilet base. 14 tighten nuts on closet bolts.

Check the level of the toilet. Follow the easy instructions that come with your product being sure to tighten each of the four bolts a little at a time so the rubber gasket goes down evenly around the bend pipe. Tightening the bolts too much can crack the brittle porcelain of the toilet for which there is no repair. Replace that wax seal and then reattach the toilet to the floor using those new bolts.

If you are going to paint. If a bolt is loose tighten it slowly just until it is snug. Tighten the nuts onto the new bolts.