Easy DIY Toilet Installation for Beginners
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2024
- Emily's Channel (You Can DIY): / @youcandiyhome
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Emily Lopez from the CZcams channel You Can DIY will walk us through a complete guide to installing your first toilet. We will spend some time highlighting the different options you have for wax rings or gaskets to ensure your installation is leak-free and will hold up for years and years.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:42 Issues To Avoid With Standard Toilet Wax Rings
1:58 Better Options Than Wax Rings: Fluidmaster Wax-Free Toilet Gasket
2:36 What To Do If Your Toilet Flange Is Damaged
3:26 Installing A Toilet Base
7:58 Installing A Toilet Tank
10:56 Installing A Toilet Lid
12:28 Connecting Your Water And Testing Your Toilet
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Emily's Channel (You Can DIY): www.youtube.com/@YouCanDIYHome
Extra Thick Wax Ring: amzn.to/3OsWJs3
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Danco Flange Repair: amzn.to/3Ul84ht
Owesome, simplified & yet detailed 👌
Thanks!
EXCELLENT instruction!
That was Clear, Concise, and much appreciated! 🫡👍🏼
Thank you!!
I subscribed to Emily from your last video featuring her. It's great of you to help her grow her channel. When my bathroom was being remodeled, he put in (what is think a reusable) yellow accordion toilet drain seal ring. It's been working fine for about two years, but I haven't had to disturb the toilet yet. Emily is a lovely lady and she shows a lot of tips and tricks on doing a varying range of jobs throughout the house right.
Thanks!!!
Emily is a very good teacher, I will be subscribing to her channel.
Thank you!! I appreciate you!
perfect timing. I need to put a new toilet into my bathroom in the basement. Got a quote for $600+ dollars. Thought I would just tackle it myself. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't scared of the water leaking.
It is insane how much a plumber charges to replace a toilet. I forgot what I was quoted. It was either $200 or $400 not including the toilet!
Very great teacher. Well explained. Thank you for sharing
Great step by step video in full detail. Thank you
Thank you!
One tip if I may. Before setting your bowl in place, measure the bolts from the wall to get them an even distance from the wall. That way your toilet will be straight. ps Scott, love your vids! Keep em coming.
Thats a great idea! Unless your walls aren’t square with each other. This is an old stone house and I’ll tell ya what, whenever I think I can measure off a side wall, I’m so wrong. In this house, sometimes “looks straight” looks better than actual straight and level 😂
@@YouCanDIYHome If your walls aren't square, your toilet will still be even with the wall. btw Great vid and very easy to follow.
I prefer the Fernco version for installing a brand new toilet. It stick to the bottom of the toilet and goes down the flange. As long as the bottom of your toilet is clean and dry the adhesive is very sticky and I've had no issues.
I also recommend measuring from the wall to the bolts so you can make sure you are even before you set the toilet.
Thank you. Get instructor and I learned about a wax less ring. Nice.
Thanks!!
I used a wax-free ring for the first time a few moths back when I re-did my guest bath (the same Fluidmaster you linked). I will never go back to messy wax rings again. Worked perfectly and no leaks. I partially caulk the base... front and sides, leaving the back open to allow any possible water to escape. Just makes for a much neater install.
The previous owner of the house (or a contractor they hired) did a terrible job mounting the old toilet. The flange was set below the floor and they never accounted for that. The old wax seal was never fully seated, leaked and I had to tear up the old tile and subfloor to replace the rot is caused. What a mess. At least I have an entirely new tile floor and toilet.
Literally the past 2 days i replaced all internals and the bowl gaskets of 2 of my toilets lmao, all because one of the toilets had a leaking washer AND come to find out a deteriorated mushy bowl gasket so figured i may as well do the whole thing, figured id do one of the downstairs toilets too with the state the bolts and washers/spacers were in. Fluidmaster K-400H-021 Full repair kits ARE AWESOME! Comes with everything you need AND even comes with all the tools you need! Extremely glad they were on sale at Walmart at $27 from $40!
That much work, I'm replacing both toilets. Plus the new ones will look nicer and have great coatings now that prevent staining like older toilets will do in time...
@@natersalad889 $50 to repair 2 toilets vs $200+ for 2 new toilets is a no-brainer. Repairing is the way to go.
@@natersalad889 Nah wasnt really much work at all especially since the kit came with everything i needed, but the downstairs one was a pain because of a rusted out wing nut and PITA bolts, which would have been 23 years old at this point and never been touched before lol, pretty much explains why it was a pain. The upstairs one took me like 45 mins to do once i figured everything out, the downstairs one took me a bit longer due to the wing nut no longer having a wing lol, and it had 2 extra nuts to undo which my upstairs one didnt have as it wasnt the original. But other than all that it was easier than i thought.
The staining on the other hand is true though, well water doesnt play nice if you dont keep up with cleanings every now and then. Oh, and it took 2 days only because i didnt decide to do the downstairs until the day after i did the upstairs one, so didnt take much time at all really. $60 for 2 kits instead of 80 is also why i decided to do it, aside from the downstairs REALLY needing it.
*Thank you Emily, smiles!*
Thanks!!
I already subscribe to her channel, but she did so good on the camera angles, shots, and excellent description of each step and why.
@EverydayHomeRepairs The link to Emily's channel is a 404 Not Found in your description. It should be: www.youtube.com/@YouCanDIYHome
Thank you!!
Thanks for the heads up, I will swap it out 👍
@@YouCanDIYHome You're welcome and you deserve it, the least I could do for the effort you put in and the value you provide.
There's something so appealing about a cute but humble girl doing plumbing in a friendly and educational video. She's a keeper.
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Only the finest 😁
Never used a wax less seal, if I ever do another I’ll try👍
It’s nice to have a little wiggle room!
This is a repair that's good to know
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Absolutely! It’ll save you a few hundred bucks in labor too!
Once you have the hole in the ground, your toilets done. 😂
Haha. Desperate times call for desperate measures 😅😂
You joke about but that's how it works in some countries.
@@michaeldunham3385 very true.
I the toilet handle replacement video. But what handle brand did you buy?
Wax-less rings are the best!
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Good luck. Some bolt /nut is 1/4" or 5/16" any way good time spent to explain installation for ding dongs
I thought this was a Jonny Sins video at first
Go to use brass bolo rod out
I'd like to see an installation on a Japanese toilet.
If you like it then you shoulda put a (wax) ring on it
I love how she had to show she covered the blue pex because otherwise all the comments on this video would be how bad pex looks lol
Never saw those non wax .
It’s handy!
Emily link not working.
Dat booty working.
Great teacher but fail on the short bowl. Does anyone use those anymore? It's 1950's tech. Also, I like to throw a bead of white caulk along the back and then one on each side of the front to help hold the bowl in place to the floor. It does not inhibit water flow so you know if you have a leak, but it helps keep the bowl steady in the long run.
This is a pretty small old house with limited space. We actually paid a bit more for the short bowl product so we had 1.5 inches more in the pathway :) there was only one bathroom and a weird closet and we got creative to fit 1.75 bathrooms
Ahh ok. Makes sense.@@YouCanDIYHome
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Thank you!!
As an Australian who hasn't seen a toilet without a half-flush in over 30 years, it's truly unhinged seeing such a wasteful design in a modern product
Brace yourself...most of the toilets in public don't have a half flush option.
Half flush…lol. I need at least two flushes these days to get the dookie down.
Coming from someone that’s surrounded by water… literally 🤦
We build them so our previous President could flush his incriminating paperwork “down the tubes”. Half flush wouldn’t do it.
Lol what's wasteful. Especially cuz I'm on a well and the septic puts it right back in the ground
Scott, I've loved your channel for years. Part of the reason why I appreciated your channel because you just seem like a man who is doing the natural thing and taking care of his castle. It's refreshing to see a man being masculine, especially in this crazy age we live in.
However, it seems that you're now hosting videos from a female DIYer. In case you didn't know, we have an enormous problem nowadays involving females veering away from femininity and behaving in masculine ways. It's actually disturbing to people who appreciate natural masculinity and femininity. I recommend preferring not to host videos of masculine females trying to make a name for themselves by taking on masculine personas. It wasn't women who started the DIY phenomenon, it was men. When women try to step into that sphere of activity and try to get into the spotlight alongside men, they are not behaving in feminine ways, they are behaving in masculine ways.
In case you or anyone reading this has forgotten what it means to be a feminine women, search for videos on "how to be feminine" or "how to be ladylike" and if you want to see a very feminine women, search for videos on "biblical womanhood".
When you watch those videos, you will not see women holding power tools or pouring concrete. Chances are you will not see women wearing jeans and t shirts. If you need more help understanding what a feminine woman looks like, watch old movies and tv shows. Watch things that came out further and further away from the 1960s and youll see that all women wore dresses and blouses and looked and behaved in femininine ways. Many women today do not behave that way and masculine men who are in tune with nature find that to be disgusting.
It's undeniable that your typical woman is uninterested in the nuts and bolts side of life. There's a reason why it was men who started making videos of home repairs, and why, to this day, the majority of videos are mostly made by men. When women decide to take on masculine personas and try to make a name for themselves by getting into the spotlight of the DIY video scene, that's not a sign that the woman is following in the footsteps of feminine women, it's a sign that she is following in the footsteps of masculine men. We don't encourage women to do that, we advise them not to do that. Sadly, some women can be the only girl in a family of boys or be raised by a single father who doesn't know what it means to be a woman. This can disorient a female. When we see a disoriented female, we don't help lead her in the wrong direction. We set her in the right direction. This woman here on this video is headed in the wrong direction. She is taking on a masculine persona and honestly I can't watch that. It seems that you have featured her multiple times and if this becomes a regular thing, I won't be able to bear it. I love feminine women and I hate to see what's happening to women nowadays.
Nowadays, the world will tell you that you are doing a good thing by helping women do whatever pops into their minds, but you need to remember that I'm not the only person out there who appreciates natural masculinity and femininity. More people than you think are disturbed when they see tomboyish, masculine women. Normally, I steer entirely clear of videos of women who try to make a name for themselves by taking on masculine personas and getting into masculine activities, and I don't want the same thing to happen to this channel. It's one thing if a woman is on her own and has to fix things around her house in the privacy of her own home; it's another when tomboyish women try to take center stage, embrace the masculine persona and brazenly puts it on display for all to see. Whether it's done in ignorance or in opposition to femininity, it's a complete displeasure and I can't watch that. Just as it's disturbing to see women with beards, when you become attuned to what femininity looks like, it becomes disturbing to see women take on masculine personas and try to join men in what has historically been a masculine activity.
I highly recommend that everyone do everything they can to find out how women used to behave. That will turn your understanding women to something closer what is natural. Watch an old cowboy movie if you have to and observe the wives of the decent folk. Observe the activities they engage in because that's what women are inclined to do.
Those plastic nuts and bolts are JUNK and should be trashed and replaced with metal ones. They break after a year or 2. JUNK!
Get a different ring, instead of the wax ring