Replace Toilet Bolts Concrete Floor

A masonry drill is required to bore holes into which the concrete screws are a placed.

Replace toilet bolts concrete floor.

If an anchor bolt or the closet flange beneath the toilet breaks however replacing the bolts is necessary. Use a pencil or grease pen to mark the drill holes around its circumference. If using a plastic flange ring be careful not to crack the ring by screwing the anchors in too far. Now that you have uncovered the bolts now it s time to unscrew it.

Once the flange is screwed down tight the heads of locking bolts should be fitted into the grooves on the. Fit the flange over the pipe to place it flat against the concrete floor. 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. Screw the toilet flange onto the concrete.

Step 5 clean up around the bottom of the toilet and place the new wax ring on the repaired flange. Use tapcon anchors or a similar type of masonry concrete screws to fasten the toilet flange to the concrete slab. 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. 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.

With the toilet flange in place you are ready to install the toilet with a new wax ring. Moisture around the base of the toilet can corrode the anchor bolts.