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.

Pry off the two plastic bolt caps located one on each side of your toilet base. Tighten the nuts onto the new bolts. Check the level of the toilet. All repairs on floor and walls must be complete and all glues caulks or grouts dry.

Check the other bolt to make sure it is equally snug then test the toilet for rocking. 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. Your rocking toilet. If a bolt is loose tighten it slowly just until it is snug.

14 tighten nuts on closet bolts. Stop tightening once the toilet sits securely. 15 trim bolts with hacksaw. As long as you re doing some work you might as well make sure it s nice and tightened up.

Replace that wax seal and then reattach the toilet to the floor using those new bolts. Gently lay the toilet on its side or back and clean. The mounting bolts attach your toilet to a flange a sturdy ring of plastic or metal. Is it solidly planted on the floor or does it rock.

I show you 2 easy ways to you can stop it from shaking and secure it to the floor. 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. Tightening the bolts too much can crack the brittle porcelain of the toilet for which there is no repair. 17 check to make sure toilet is tight to floor and doesn t rock.

Check the mounting bolts. Check the condition of the flange. Sit on the toilet and transfer your weight in all directions to help seat the wax ring correctly. Test fit the toilet over the flange.

In this video i show you how to fix a shaking or wobbly toilet. If you are going to paint. Check the flange bolt at each side of the toilet using a pair of pliers or a small wrench.