How To Install Toilet Flange Over Floor

To access the toilet flange remove the toilet from the drain and set it aside.

How to install toilet flange over floor. Set the new compression flange over toilet s drainpipe and then trace around it with a marker. Use a small sledgehammer and cold chisel to separate the old cast iron closet flange from the toilet s drainpipe known as the closet bend. Disconnect the water supply turn off the water supply to the toilet. Instructions remove the toilet.

Check the fit of. Remove the nuts from the mounting bolts that hold the tank onto the bowl with a wrench. If the flange sits above the tiled floor no spacer is. Test fit the flange extender.

Pry free the loosened closet flange with a flat bar. Carefully lift the tank off the bowl and place out of the immediate area then remove the nuts from the floor bolts. Preparation when you you are going to do something relevant to mechanism the preparation is very important. Clean the top of the old flange to ensure that the flange extension can sit neatly in place.

There should be one on each side. This is done by. Lay a tarp or newspaper down to protect your floors.