How to replace a close couple toilet when the floor is rotten and this floor really is rotten
The first thing to do is isolate the water supply either at the mains or if you're lucky enough to have an isolation valve then use that and undo the inlet pipe to the system
As you can see I've removed the wing nuts from underneath. the system connecting the system to the pan itself and I've undone one of the screws in
the back of the system and it's now time to take the other screw out and lift the
system off I going to And empty the rest of the water into the bath
Where we will put the system for now
This is called the doughnuts. This fits between the pan and the system, making a water pipe tight joint between the flush
unit and the pan itself. These are the nuts. One fell on the floor
Don't worry about that. They always happens to which the wing nuts connect and those go through the holes in the top
of the pan to connect the system to the system. to the pan in a close couple way
There's the other one. We put that back in there for now And then really it a question of just pulling out the system of the toilet pan There we go So the toilet should just slide out of its
housing. Put that there. Out of the way. So you can see that you can see
how the toilet is connected to its downside. So now it's a question of getting gloves and gloves on and everything else
having a clean up, cutting the floor, replacing all of that rotten timber
and you'll see snapshots of that as we go on. We were very lucky indeed in that the floor joyce all those spread apart quite a long way
weren't rotten at all. We decided however to treat them properly with some wood preserver and insert some new noggins and support the timbers with some timber sleeper walls underneath The whole lot could then be treated with some wood preserver
An excellent wood preserver called lumberjack from Ever Build. It really is excellent stuff
Protects against dry rot, wet rot and all woodboring insects. It's simply painted or sprayed on
So all of the timber was covered in lumberjack. If you click on the link, you can buy it
lumberjack's great stuff and then we replaced the floor with some moisture
resistant wooden tongue and grooved flooring that was slid underneath the wall as you can see and taken to the joist and fixed down with inch and a half
screws we then laminated the floor please vezzed your pages on laying
laminar floor and see how that was done the toilet was then replaced on top of
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