Prep Work for Replacing a Toilet
Part of the Video Series How to Replace Toilets & Door Thresholds
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Prep Work for Replacing a Toilet
Today we are replacing a disabled toilet. It leaks and it also leaks down at the base where it’s cracked at, so we’re just going to replace the whole entire thing. If you buy a toilet that is- it’s called a toilet in a box. It has everything you need to replace it, the seat, and the bolts and everything. Most important to remember is you want to clean around the toilet and the toilet with disinfectant or just pure bleach. And you want to remember to clean the whole entire three feet around it because you don’t want to cut yourself. And then, while that’s doing its job you want to drain out all the water in the toilet. So you want to turn off the valve right here. If your valve doesn’t turn off, you can either turn it off at the street or call a plumber. If you flush it and then hold it, hold the handle up until it stops draining water. And then you’re going to fill up any bucket or anything with about two gallons of water because the toilet always retains some water. You want to pour it into the bottom of the toilet and it will flush the rest of the water out. It will however keep about a gallon in the pee trap. So when you carry it out you want to make sure that you have it level. Because if you don’t have it level, it’s going to spill out the rest of the water. And that’s how you would prepare the area to remove a broken toilet.
Today we are replacing a disabled toilet. It leaks and it also leaks down at the base where it’s cracked at, so we’re just going to replace the whole entire thing. If you buy a toilet that is- it’s called a toilet in a box. It has everything you need to replace it, the seat, and the bolts and everything. Most important to remember is you want to clean around the toilet and the toilet with disinfectant or just pure bleach. And you want to remember to clean the whole entire three feet around it because you don’t want to cut yourself. And then, while that’s doing its job you want to drain out all the water in the toilet. So you want to turn off the valve right here. If your valve doesn’t turn off, you can either turn it off at the street or call a plumber. If you flush it and then hold it, hold the handle up until it stops draining water. And then you’re going to fill up any bucket or anything with about two gallons of water because the toilet always retains some water. You want to pour it into the bottom of the toilet and it will flush the rest of the water out. It will however keep about a gallon in the pee trap. So when you carry it out you want to make sure that you have it level. Because if you don’t have it level, it’s going to spill out the rest of the water. And that’s how you would prepare the area to remove a broken toilet.
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