Simple Toilet Replacement And Quick Fix For Low Toilet Flange!

This is an old-school universal rundle toilet from 1978. We're going to replace this today. So come along. Let's get to fixing. Make sure your water is shut off. This is actually a quarter-turned-style valve. He already has it shut off. Check the tank for water. I like to take this apart in pieces. And then we got to get the water out of here. Oh yeah. Couple ways you get this water out of here. One way, grab a sponge and sponge this into a bucket. This is a new pack-out shop vac from Milwaukee. And I'm really excited to own this. I've been sponging toilets for so long and I've seen people doing this on the internet. I was really excited to give this a try. Anytime you're doing wet work, take your filter out. A lot faster than my sponge method. With this toilet install, you're going to be down on the floor a lot. Get something like this ergo kneel or some knee pads. This right here is what I like to call a knee saver. So grab the supply line right here at the toilet and you can usually just twist off with your hand, counterclockwise. And now your water line is disconnected. Take an adjustable jaw and just get this out of our way. When removing a toilet, I always like to take the tank off the bowl. This is going to save back strain. And these wing nuts, they're brand new. You can just be able to pop this right off, all right? Do that on both sides. And remember, when grabbing this lift with your core, depending on the size of the tank, this is a good portion of the weight of your toilet. And this is important, especially when you're walking up and downstairs. Now we can remove the cap. We'll be able to remove these nuts. And sometimes your adjustable jaw to stay in a work. So times like these, you want something that's going to grab a bolt and not let go. These little canypex cobras, they do that. And this is our broken. This bolt ain't coming out on either side. These washers are so old that really, they're just falling apart. If it's right down in there, just push right down in through. Grab yourself a garbage bag. Lay it out next to your toilet. Suck it in that core. Get the bottom all wrapped up. Now we can transport this bad boy. Get this all cleaned up. So you can see that this wax was leaking by a little bit. You see the way that roll right there? There wasn't a good seal. This flange is setting a little too low on the floor. You can see that this flange is held in by nails. If we're going to take this toilet flange, and we're going to raise it up to the proper height. Oh yeah. I want to grab something to take a sponge, something and stuff it down in here that way you don't drop something in there. And it blocks off the sewer gas. All right. This flange is not bad. This is actually all good metal. It's just a little surface rust. Honestly, the paint is flaking off a little bit, but that's still all really good. Now we're going to pop in this OD set right, toilet flange extension kit. I've been seeing these everywhere. It looks like it's a good setup. And we need to raise this up a quarter inch above the finished floor. Phone gasket. That's what's going to go down on top of the flange. Flange that sits down inside of this comes with some big old stainless steel screws. And then a bunch of different other extension pieces. I get that fits in there really well. That's awesome. I'm just going to be that height we're looking for to come out of the floor. This bad boy set around right here. That is way better than what it was. And once it's screwed down, it'll be a great height for a standard wax ring. Before I screw this down, I'm going to put the bolts on and get them exactly where I need to go here. I don't like using these little cheap washers. I always just use an extra set of nuts and washers for this. Now it looks good. You could tell that flange still has some meat. These are self tapping screws. And it's taking a bit to get through that flange. This is a standard wax ring. There's no horn. I like to push it straight down on. Give it a quarter turn. And then also, I like to rub the edges down. Maybe just get your toilet lined up. Smush it down and place flat and evenly. Back over on this side, I noticed like, you run your finger around here. You can kind of feel a little gap. Well, I've got these rubber flexible shims that I like to use. And I'll just put one right there. So sometimes you need a little shim. Not going to be a big deal. I'm going to call right over it. You're never going to know. I'm going to pop out these covers. A little bit on each side. Those feel pretty good. These are all break points. Right, so you can take this and just grab it and break it off. And you want to tighten down just a little bit more after that. Just to make sure that it's nice and snug. Don't go too crazy with it. So now our toilet has no movement. And we're ready to put the tank on. Put a towel right there. Some of these are sticking out. Some of them are not. You're going to have to push those down as far as you can. Just flip that up down under here and start putting on these nuts. Just have to barely start it. So a half inch nut driver works great on the sides. Not so much on the back. One and a half inch ratcheting box in right here. But if you don't have one, grab a period of little channel locks to cobras, some pinning. That's what I'm doing. That looks pretty. Get your supply lines screwed onto your valve. This top nut goes to hand tight. Now we're able to start filling the toilet. Nice and slow. Flush. Pop the other cover on. When I test, I always test it like a five-year-old one, right? A bunch of paper, make sure it's not going to stop up and flush several times. It's too little. Rubber pieces that go in here. Take a washer and screw. This piece goes down on the bottom. We use our little Milwaukee six and one utility knife here to hook this up. This just goes down on the bottom and you just push up and then screw it down. Same thing on the other side. Now we've got a nice, slow, close toilet seat. This thing has been coming in super handy lately. Take our utility knife and gently cut. There we go. Once we call kit, you're never going to know. So we're still continuing to flush. We're checking everything for leaks, making sure there's nothing dripping. Get yourself a contractor sponge and some kitchen bath and plumbing call. This is going to be easy water cleanup. I'm going to leave about a four-inch gap in the back of this toilet, right? I only want to call around these edges, mainly because guys peel on floors. Let's be real. Get your sponge wet. You just want it a little damp, just enough to wet your finger and just go right around here. Give that a little dry time. First official order of business here is to put this water back in there. All right, well, we've checked for leaks. It's called in place, flushed at several times and we're good to rock and roll. All right, this was a little bit more than what we thought it was going to be, but guess what? It's plumbing. It always is. I really hope you folks have enjoyed the video. If you guys please subscribe, click the like button. We'd love to have you keep coming back. Check us out on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, while over the place these days. We're just trying to help people. We hope we're doing that. Thank you very much and we'll see you again real soon.