Removing The Old Toilet

Have you ever realized that repairing a leaky faucet can save up to 1000 gallons of water per year? This seems to be the most serious issue. Since, water has become a scarce resource one should conserve it rather than wasting it. Because, repairing a leaky faucet like a toilet is not a complicated task, homeowners can carry out themselves. Moreover, you can remove the leaky toilet easily, if you have decided to replace it with a new one.

Continuously falling water drops from the toilet not only wastes water but is quite displeasing. We thus should not overlook and take immediate remedial steps. And if by all efforts, the toilet still persist the leakage, replace the toilet with a new one. Removing the leaky toilet is not a difficult task and can be done up by even an unskilled person if he follow the instruction provided below.

The first step is to turn off the water supply of the toilet. Empty the tank as well as the bowl making sure that it doesn’t contain any water.

Now using the plumber’s wrench unscrew the nut that couples the water supply and the toilet tank. Generally, the tank is held to the bowl with the large sweeping elbow. First remove the elbow. For that, you can simply saw it using a hacksaw.

After removing the tank, start with the bowl. Your toilet seat or the bowl is attached with two long hold- down bolts and the nuts under the plastic caps. Pry these plastic caps with the screwdriver and set free the nuts.

Now, in order to break the seal with the floor and the toilet flange, unbind the toilet seat. You are now ready to remove the toilet seat from the floor. Make use of the container so as to hold the nasty water.

Always remember to block the toilet flange with the remnants so as to avoid things getting down the drains and clogging it. Moreover, this will not allow the sewer gases to back flow into the home drains.

Following the steps listed above, even an untrained man can easily remove the toilet from the floor. The only care that is needed is while handling the toilet seat and the tank as these are breakable and frail.

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