How do I take out a toilet?

Question

I need to take out my toilet to fix a sewer problem. How do I do this?

Answer 1

Shut the water off and flush to remove the water if you can or use a cup to get it out. Remove the two screws and undue the water line and it should pull right up.

Answer 2

You can remove a toilet like this:

1) turn off the water supply. There should be a valve behind/below the toilet where the line comes out of the wall or floor.

2) Flush the toilet, and bail or sponge out the water in the bottom.

3) disconnect the water supply at the shutoff valve.

4) Loosen & remove the bolts at the base that hold the toilet to the floor.

5) Lift the toilet and set it off to the side. SET IT ON A PIECE OF CARDBOARD OR AN OLD TOWEL. There will be a lot of wax on the bottom from the wax ring that seals the toilet to the pipe.

Make your repairs.

To reinstall:

1) clean the old wax off the bottom of the toilet and the pipe below where the toilet sits,

2) Put a new wax ring on the pipe opening on the floor.

3) set the toilet carefully on the wax ring, lining up with the bolts.

4) sit on the toilet, rocking gently side to side until it pushes down into the wax ring and seats itself on the floor.

5) reconnect the bolts and the water line.

6) turn the water on, check for leaks, flush the toilet to see if it works.

7) Do the home-owner's happy dance because you were able to fix this problem yourself!

Answer 3

Remove the caps that cover the bolts that anchor your toilet to the floor. These will be round or oblong covers on either side of the base of the toilet. Remove the bolts. Disengage the tank by taking off the lid, bailing out the water, and unscrew the flushing mechanism in the botton of the tank...or look underneath the tank and unscrew the bolt that is undernear the tank. Keep a bucket of water under the tank until this is done. This should remove your toilet. Make sure that the shutoff to the water supply is turned off.

Answer 4

hey this should be fairly easy. First u want to turn the water supply off (look in back of your toilet - u will see a valve probably oval shaped depending on the age It can be copper or stainless steel, once again depending on the age of the plumbing.) Anyway, turn the supply line off, with these types of valves they should work like your faucets -- right to turn it off left to turn on. once you turn off the water supply, flush the toilet, so u can get as much water out as possible. After that, uyou unscrew the supply line from the tank. Once done with that simply take the nuts loose at the base of the bowl (this is the part that sits on the floor -- they may be covered by some little tops - just pop them off
At any rate, once the two anchor bolts at the bottom off the bowl is loose and the supply line is also loose you're ready to remove your toilet unless u want to remove the tank first. The tank is secured to the bowl with two screws with nuts on them. Simply look under the part of the bowl where it meets the tank and you'll see them. The whole toilet can be moved at onne depending on your strength. If the toilet seems hard to move at first, move it around slowly b/c u have a wax ring on the very bottom that u will not see until the toilet is completely removed. I recommend that if you're doing this by yourself u have plenty of tiles or rags b/c enenthough the toilet may look empty I can assure you it isn't. Keep the toilet as level as possible to avoid any of the excess water from coming out. Also, make sure u buy a new wax ring and remove any and all remnants of the old one to avoid any leakage after you've re-install the toilet. Also, you may want run a bead of chaulking around the part of the base that sits on the floor, again leakage prevention.

Answer 5

Turn off water And Disconnect supply line. Remove bolt Caps Off Toilet on Base Remove nuts And empty Comode Of all water out of comode lift fix sewer Problem then Reset Comode.

Answer 6

have a wax ring(2 for some ceramic tile floors)on hand and a set of closet bolts.turn off valve to the left of and below toilet tank and flush toilet(hold the handle down until all water leaves the tank)disconnect water supply tube from bottom of toilet tank.the two exposed bolts on either side of the toilet at the floor hold it on the flange.plunge or dip as much as possible of the water out of the toilet then take the nuts off the two bolts(these are probably hidden under the plastic caps which pop off easily with a pocket knife or small straight screwdriver)if the nuts are corroded or siezed onto the bolts you may have to cut the bolts.you can do this by holding the nut or tip of bolt steady with a pair of vice-grips and cutting below the nut with a small hacksaw(mini hacksaws available at any hardware store)or use a dremel or rotary tool if available. be careful not to mark up toilet finish any more than necessary.be careful when lifting toilet off floor so as not to jar the bolt/washers/nuts that connect tank to bowl and not to hurt your back-toilets are heavy.(put it on a piece of cardboard and slide it out of the way).before re-setting toilet be sure flange is screwed down well to floor (screws sometimes rust away with time)remove old wax from flange and bottom of toilet.BEFORE re-setting toilet be sure one wax ring will be enough to make good contact between toilet and flange,if not,use 2 rings.put new closet bolts into slots in flange and tighten to flange centered on the opening itself before setting wax ring(s) on flange.(if your new closet bolts don't have 4 nuts and washers you should purchase them, some come with them some do not.set toilet carefully onto flange holding as level as possible to keep from messing up wax ring and slide down over bolts on both sides.when tightening bolts at floor do not over tighten them they do not mount the toilet to the floor gravity keeps it there they simply prevent it slipping off flange.if over-tightened they can break the flange causing another problem or crack the porcelain of the toilet.i would be sure that this even needs to be done first,for a clogged line there should be a cleanout plug under the floor if accessible.

Answer 7

Watch the end of the movie .. One Flew Over The Coo Coos nest .. There's a big guy in the movie who does it in one big motion. You will see .. movie was made in the late 60's I think. Good Luck ! :)

Answer 8

VERY EASY .
TURN OFF WATER .
UNDO BOLTS .
LIFT TOILET OFF .
FIX PROBLEM.
PUT TOILET BACK IN PLACE

Answer 9

Listen to Ralfhcoder he knows what he is talking about.

Answer 10

you can get a mini pocket book from http://www.ehousepad.com which should give you step by step instructions on your project/. good luck