Washroom Toilet Replacement 

By Vic Nagy

Replacing the toilet is a lot easier than putting a new toilet in, obviously because a new toilet needs all the plumbing and connections where as your old toilet has the original connections that you can reuse.

1 - First thing is to turn off the water to the tank, and then remove all the water from the toilet and bowl. Before you remove the toilet, you turn off the water, most probably on the floor behind the toilet then you can undue the toilet from the floor usually this is two nuts. When you get the nuts off then you can lift the bowl off the floor and put it somewhere carefully not to break the floor. Next you should wipe clean the old pipe from greases or waxes gasket or plumbing putty. This is important to keep the bowl from breaking or leaking. also removing the plumbers putty and any kind of sealant from the floor this will make the installation look a lot cleaner with some fresh sealants neatly applied.

2 - Getting a bowl ready for securing to the floor,

The next thing you're going to do is bolt the toilet flange to the floor. you're going to slide the flange over the two existing bolts. just checked to make sure that your toilet is sitting flat and level.

3 - Securing the bowl

Now flip the toilet and apply your wax sealer to the base and then flip it back right side up and now you can put it back into place and actually tighten it up putting plumber's putty as you go. make sure as you're putting in the toilet that it sits flat the whole time. The toilet must be level.

4 - Putting the water tank on to the bowl.

Follow the manufacturer's instructions on installing the tank on to the ball. You're almost done now, when you're finished tightening up the nuts just check it one more time to make sure that your toilet is sitting level.

5 - Hooking up your water supply back to the toilet

Now you can connect your toilet back to your water supply. You might need a piece of flexible holes to connect your tank back to your shot off tap. Make sure you wrap a little plumbers tape on the threads to prevent leakage.

6 - Turn on your valve and check for leaks, cycle your toilet with a couple of flushes. If you see no water and your toilet is functioning properly you're done!

From years of experience and working on hundreds of homes I see hundreds of great ideas on kitchens and washrooms and bedrooms. Too many to mention. For great ideas and how to do stuff ask me at: home repairs or  http://www.hollywoodpainting.com painters Toronto

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