Replace Toilet Bolts Concrete Floor

Screw the toilet flange onto the concrete.

Replace toilet bolts concrete floor.

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. With the toilet flange in place you are ready to install the toilet with a new wax ring. A masonry drill is required to bore holes into which the concrete screws are a placed. Toilet anchor bolts also called closet bolts or flange bolts secure the base of the toilet to the floor most of the time the original bolts remain in place even during wax ring changes.

Once the flange is screwed down tight the heads of locking bolts should be fitted into the grooves on the. If using a plastic flange ring be careful not to crack the ring by screwing the anchors in too far. Use a pencil or grease pen to mark the drill holes around its circumference. Now that you have uncovered the bolts now it s time to unscrew it.

Toilet anchor bolts hold your toilet to the floor and keep it connected to the flange which is the opening to the waste line. Use tapcon anchors or a similar type of masonry concrete screws to fasten the toilet flange to the concrete slab. 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. We will have to use a wrench since these bolts of fixed really tight holding the toilet onto the floor.

If an anchor bolt or the closet flange beneath the toilet breaks however replacing the bolts is necessary. Moisture around the base of the toilet can corrode the anchor bolts.