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Hey kids, it’s great to see you again! So today, I’m going to show you how to swap out a toilet. But first, I have a dad joke for you: Did you hear about the toilet that was stolen from the police station? The cops have nothing to go on. Ah!
So anyway, I’m just going to walk you through what I did with my toilet recently. What happened was my toilet was leaking, which I suspected was probably just the wax ring that had failed. The seal had come loose, it must have dropped down, and wasn’t sealing properly. And so, that’s, in fact, what happened. So, I just removed my existing toilet and put the same toilet right back on with a new wax ring.
And I’m just going to walk you through that. It’s going to be similar if you’re going to swap out a toilet. It should be basically the same steps. You might have to attach the tank to the base of your toilet, so that’s a few extra steps that you’re not going to see in this video. But anyway, I think this will be helpful just to watch the whole thing through to understand what it takes to swap out a toilet.
So, as you can see, there’s some water here, so my toilet is leaking. So, I need to remove the toilet so I can check out where the leak is coming from. So, the first thing I need to do is turn off the water. Alright, so this is kind of tight quarters, so I’ll do my best to be able to show this to you.
So, the first thing we need to do, we shut off the water, right? And then now we’re going to need to remove this toilet, and um, you need to make sure all the water is drained out. So, we turn off the water, and then now we’re just going to flush it to get rid of the water in the tank. Okay?
As you can see, this is a little different than my other toilet. So, this is a pretty new toilet, um, doesn’t have a flapper, it works a little bit different. But we just need to get rid of that water that’s in there. Okay, looks like that’s about as far as it’s going to go. So, we’ll need to figure out how to get the rest of that water out. On a flapper, um, you’d be able to get pretty much all of it out. I’ll probably just get a cup and start scooping that water out.
Alright, so I’m just going to use this old yogurt cup. Um, but it looks like it doesn’t quite fit down in there. So, I’m just going to cut this top off to give me a little scoop. Alright, so I got my cup kind of cut off here, and I’m just going to scoop that out, just like this, into my bucket. Just want to get as much water as you can out of there, because you’re going to move this toilet. If you don’t do this, then that’s going to spill all over your floor.
Okay, same thing with the sponge, again. Okay, we just about got all the water out of here now with our sponge technique, and we’re going to go dump that water. I’m just going to dump it on my plants. It’ll be fine, um, because we don’t put any chemicals in our toilet. So, make sure you dump that, right? You start removing this, you get a little excited, and then you kick over your bucket. That would be horrible.
Alright, so the tank is empty, and then the bowl is empty of water. Like I said, you might end up with a little bit of water, but you want to get the majority of the water out of there before you disconnect this. I get it, it might be exciting to, okay, I want to change my toilet and get ahead of yourself. Always do the water first. Turn the water off, and then drain your tank and drain your bowl to take care of that. That’s just done. We’re still going to have a little bit of water in that line. I’ll show you that real quick, and then we can start pulling this thing off, and I’ll show you how to do that.
So now, we just need to disconnect it here. Okay, I might lose a little bit of water here. So, have a bucket ready if you can. Okay, yeah, water’s leaking out just a little bit though. It’s just what’s left in this line. Alright, just putting it in my bucket like that. Right? Okay, so we’re good there.
Alright, so you’re going to have a cap like this on either end. Should be pretty similar on most toilets, but yours might be a little bit different. And then, we’re going to… So, this one looks like it’s just a plastic screw-on, so we’re going to remove that. Okay, set that aside. Got to do the same thing on the other side. Okay, we’re on the other side. We’re going to pop that off now too. Okay, yours will probably be different than this. This looks like a newer toilet, right? Like I said, I swapped this out probably 3 or 4 years ago. So, yours may have a nut on there. This is how this one looks. It just goes down inside there. Okay, so now we’re going to go ahead and pop off the toilet. Okay, so now there’s a wax ring underneath there that’s kind of holding it. And you’ll get to see what that looks like now.
So, I’m going to try to pop this off. It’s going to be kind of heavy, so just be ready for that. But we did get all the water out to the best of our ability, so we’re going to go ahead and pop this off now. Okay, just got to kind of get over it, lift up. Okay, all right, see that? Oh, okay, now I’m going to show you what that looks like close up here. All right, so you can see where it’s been leaking. It’s kind of gross. I cleaned it up a little bit so you wouldn’t have to look at everything, but you can see that the water’s kind of pulling up here. And this is what I was talking about with a wax ring. That’s what you’re going to have on a toilet. There’s different ways, so this looks a little bit funky. But there’s, my understanding is there’s other cushions instead of wax, but this is kind of what you’d normally see with a toilet. So, we’re going to replace this regardless. But I’m not seeing where the wax ring is really failed. Maybe it has, maybe over here. Yeah, I think that’s probably it. I think the water’s been, it wasn’t kind of mushed down. Normally, you’d see that these wax rings are pushed down and doesn’t really look like it really mushed too much. So, you can get a thicker wax ring, that’s what we’re going to do. So, I’m going to go ahead and pop this out like that. Kind of gross, right? But that’s what we’re going to
do. We’re going to pop this out and then we’ll put a new one in. So, that’s what we’ll do. Alright, so let’s go ahead and do that now. So, we’ll clean up our floor here. Alright, that’s a little better. We’re going to get the rest of this here in just a second. But I wanted to show you this toilet here. You can see, this is the flange that I was talking about earlier. So, this sits on the ground. And I think you could probably put screws through these to attach it to your floor. I’m not sure. I’ve never done it, but I think that’s what that’s for. But that’s what we’re going to put the wax ring on top of. Okay? So, we’re going to go ahead and remove that. Alright, so the next thing I want to show you is this right here. So, this is the flange that’s connected to the drain. Okay? So, what you’re going to want to do is just clean this up, make sure it’s clean. And you might need to remove the screws. I’m not sure if we’re going to need to or not, but we’ll just see how it goes. So, I’m going to go ahead and remove those now. Okay, so that’s what that looks like. And now, this is what it looks like under my toilet here. So, this is the pipe that goes down into the ground. This is the drain for the toilet. And you can see it’s pretty clean. So, we’re not going to worry about that. And then, this is the flange. So, this is what we’re going to put the wax ring on top of. So, you want to clean that off. And then, what we’ll do is we’ll set the wax ring on top of there. Alright, so I’ll show you that next. And then, we’ll go ahead and put the toilet back on. So, let me clean that up and then I’ll show you the wax ring. Alright, so this is the wax ring here. This is what we’re going to put around the flange. And then, we’ll set the toilet on top of that. So, let’s go ahead and do that now. Alright, so you want to get your wax ring here, and you’re going to want to peel off this plastic. Okay, so that comes off like that. And then, this is sticky. So, you want to set this on top of the flange just like that. Okay, so now, this is ready to go. So, now, what we’re going to do is we’re going to lift our toilet back on top of this, and then we’ll set it on top of the wax ring. So, let’s go ahead and do that now. Okay, so we’re just going to line up these holes with these screws, and then we’ll set it back on top of the wax ring. All right, so I’m just going to set that on top there. Okay, so now it’s on there. And then, what you want to do is just kind of push down on it a little bit to make sure that wax ring seals properly. So, you’re just going to want to kind of push down on it. Okay, so now, we just need to attach these bolts back to the toilet. Okay, so let’s go ahead and do that now. Alright, so I’m going to set this on here like this. And then, I’ll set this one on here like this. And then, we’ll screw on these caps here. Okay, so that one’s on there. And then, let’s get the other one on. Okay, so that’s on there now. So, now, we just need to hook up the water line again. So, I’ll go ahead and do that now. All right, so I got my water line here, and I’m just going to screw that back on like this. Okay, so that’s back on there now. So, now, what we need to do is turn the water back on and then fill up the tank. So, let’s go ahead and do that now. All right, so I’m just going to turn the water back on. Okay, so now the water’s back on, and then we’ll just fill up the tank here. Okay, so that should do it. So, now, we just need to flush it and make sure everything’s working properly. So, let’s go ahead and do that now. All right, so let’s go ahead and flush it. Okay, so it’s filling up. Okay, so that looks good. So, now, we’ll just let it fill up, and then we’ll flush it one more time just to make sure everything’s working properly. So, let’s go ahead and do that now. All right, so let’s go ahead and flush it one more time. Okay, so that looks good. So, I think we’re all set. So, that’s how you swap out a toilet. It’s really not that hard to do. You just got to make sure you have all the right tools and parts. So, hopefully, this video was helpful for you. If you have any questions, feel free to leave them in the comments below, and I’ll do my best to answer them. So, thanks for watching, and I’ll see you next time.
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