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How To Install A Toilet

In your opinion, what home utility can youthe toilet. A floor flange is what the toilet
not live without? A sink? Perhaps, but youfastens on to and it also fastens to the
could always eat out. A shower? Definitely adrainpipe leading to the septic tank. You do
must-need. Unfortunately, some smelly peoplehave to make sure this flange is fastened
don't seem to agree. At the very least, yousolidly to the floor. Then there are two
only  have  to  use  the  shower  once a day.brass bolts that hook into the flange to keep
the  toilet  in  place.
The first "can't live without" utility that
comes to my mind is the toilet. How glad I amAfter you have completed this step, install a
to live now in the 21st century instead ofwax seal on the bottom of the toilet. Some
three hundred years ago when people stillwax seals come with a little plastic seal
used  outhouses.because they fit better into the floor flange
and this helps to prevent any leaking from
One thing every homeowner should know is howoccurring. Once you have the wax seal in
to install a toilet. This will help save youplace, you lower the toilet straight onto the
money on having to call in a plumber if youtwo bolts making sure they come through the
need to replace the existing toilet in yourholes in the sides of the toilet. Then you
bathroom. If you are building a new home, youput the washers and nuts on the bolts and
must know where you are going to place thescrew them down to the floor tightly. You
toilet  in  the  bathroom.have to do this from side to side because if
you tighten one side securely first before
The best type of toilet to buy is one of theyou start on the other side, you could crack
newer models on the market that is all in onethe toilet making it unusable. If you have a
piece. This is because this toilet is easiertoilet with the flush box separate, then you
to clean. They are also more water efficientinstall the flush box and hook up the water
because  of  the  smaller  water  tank.and  test  for  leaks.
When you start to install the toilet in a newYou will have to tighten the nuts and bolts a
home, you first have to cut the hole in thefew times after you use the toilet because
floor. The hole must be cut to accommodatethe wax seal tends to settle. This will help
the size of the floor flange and the size ofkeep the toilet in place.



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