Tighten Toilet To Floor

Check the flange bolt at each side of the toilet using a pair of pliers or a small wrench.

Tighten toilet to floor.

Tightening the bolts too much can crack the brittle porcelain of the toilet for which there is no repair. 16 install bolt caps over the closet bolts. If a bolt is loose tighten it slowly just until it is snug. 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.

The mounting bolts attach your toilet to a flange a sturdy ring of plastic or metal. Check the condition of the flange. Sit on the toilet and transfer your weight in all directions to help seat the wax ring correctly. Replace that wax seal and then reattach the toilet to the floor using those new bolts.

If you are going to paint. Just make sure the flange is flush tight with the top of the floor otherwise your toilet will wobble. As long as you re doing some work you might as well make sure it s nice and tightened up. This is not uncommon.

14 tighten nuts on closet bolts. Tighten the nuts onto the new bolts. Your rocking toilet. Test fit the toilet over the flange.

Check the level of the toilet. Is it solidly planted on the floor or does it rock. Follow the easy instructions that come with your product being sure to tighten each of the four bolts a little at a time so the rubber gasket goes down evenly around the bend pipe. Check the other bolt to make sure it is equally snug then test the toilet for rocking.

In this video i show you how to fix a shaking or wobbly toilet. 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. Check the mounting bolts.

15 trim bolts with hacksaw. All repairs on floor and walls must be complete and all glues caulks or grouts dry. Pry off the two plastic bolt caps located one on each side of your toilet base.