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Set the Toilet Bowl

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Toilet Install With Flange Sitting To Low

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What happens here

Carefully lift the new toilet bowl. Position it directly over the flange, using the long closet bolts as guides to align the holes in the base of the toilet. Lower the toilet straight down onto the wax ring. Once the toilet is resting on the floor, press down firmly and evenly on the bowl with your body weight. This action compresses the wax ring, creating the final watertight seal.

Goal: Mount the toilet bowl

Tools and materials

  • Toilet Bowl — The main component of the toilet being installed

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Next he's going to take the toilet. We're going to pop the toilet on. It definitely helps with these long bolts to act as a guide. So you can just get right down in there. Make sure that that's centered. You want to make sure that your toilet is going on flat and straight. Once you get it in there now you're able to just give it a push straight down on. Goes all the way down to the floor and we've got to give a shout out to the contractor

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