Toilet Floor Bolts Broken

If an anchor bolt or the closet flange beneath the toilet breaks however replacing the bolts is necessary.

Toilet floor bolts broken.

Fix a rocky or leaky toilet with a broken closet flange. You mean you don t have to remove the entire toilet to then re. 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. Or for some reason the slot is broken.

If it s close to the surface and crosses below where you are drilling you could strike black gold. If you need to drill deeper for any reason determine the direction the pipe runs first. Most of the time the original bolts remain in place even during wax ring changes. I have had this happen.

Hold the toilet upright over the flange and guide the bolts through the holes in the base as you lower it in place. If it s concrete you may have to pull the anchor out and vacuum the hole out and set a new anchor in with epoxy. If your toilet is rocking either the flange bolts are broken or the flange is broken. This happens when the flange does not have the locking slot on the underside to hold the bolts.

We will have to use a wrench since these bolts of fixed really tight holding the toilet onto the floor. Clear the wax ring from the base of the flange by scrapping it away with a putty knife or paint scraper. Turn off the water to the toilet unscrew the water supply hose with adjustable pliers and flush the toilet to empty the tank. On my toilet o.

Take the old part to your local home depot for a proper replacement match. Once it s on the floor push down on the bowl to compress the wax ring.