Remove Toilet and Prepare Area

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Leaking Toilet? How to Replace a Wax Ring Like a Pro 💧 (Step-by-Step Fix)

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What happens here

Lay down cardboard or plastic sheeting around the toilet area to protect the floor from wax and water residue. Carefully lift the toilet straight up to clear the flange bolts. Have a second person assist if the toilet is heavy or awkward. Place the removed toilet onto the prepared protective material (cardboard is used in the video) away from the work area.

Goal: Place protective cardboard or plastic around the toilet base, then carefully lift and remove the toilet, setting it aside on the protective material.

Tools and materials

Cardboard/Plastic Sheeting

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Cobras here to get my toilet nuts off. Clean up some of that water stain. You want to grab some cardboard, some plastic, something because you don't want to get wax everywhere, okay? And now we're just going to pull this toilet and we're going to set it right here. Yeah, so it kind of took a like a little bit of a different smoosh. You can see that it's leaked for a little bit. It's like it's cast iron pipe. We'll get this

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