Replace Toilet Bolts Concrete Floor

Moisture around the base of the toilet can corrode the anchor bolts.

Replace toilet bolts concrete floor.

Step 5 clean up around the bottom of the toilet and place the new wax ring on the repaired flange. We will have to use a wrench since these bolts of fixed really tight holding the toilet onto the floor. With the toilet flange in place you are ready to install the toilet with a new wax ring. Fit the flange over the pipe to place it flat against the concrete floor.

If an anchor bolt or the closet flange beneath the toilet breaks however replacing the bolts is necessary. Once the flange is screwed down tight the heads of locking bolts should be fitted into the grooves on the. Use a pencil or grease pen to mark the drill holes around its circumference. Toilet anchor bolts hold your toilet to the floor and keep it connected to the flange which is the opening to the waste line.

A masonry drill is required to bore holes into which the concrete screws are a placed. If using a plastic flange ring be careful not to crack the ring by screwing the anchors in too far. Use tapcon anchors or a similar type of masonry concrete screws to fasten the toilet flange to the concrete slab. Screw the toilet flange onto the concrete.

In order to replace toilet bolts without removing toilet you will have to unscrew the bolts with an anticlockwise movement while holding the nut with the other hand. Slip the repair flange spanner under the broken toilet flange but put one of the toilet bolts through the hole in the spanner first in order to easily reinstall the toilet.