How To Replace Flooring Around Toilet

Cutting flooring around these obstacles is difficult even for the most seasoned flooring installer.

How to replace flooring around toilet.

See your hardware store for a flange extension kit. With the toilet removed you can carry the tile all the way up to and around the toilet flange. Tile the areas away from the toilet flange first. Since you re raising the level of the floor you ll likely need to raise the level of the flange that skirts the drain as well.

The toilet has to be removed and the flooring cut to go around the floor drain. Then the toilet is reset so the base covers the cuts around the drain. Peel back the flooring around the fixture and you will likely discover swollen discolored wood a. Don t tile around the toilet flange the circular piece that connects to the drain pipe and upon which the toilet itself will rest until the end.

But if your floor is severely rotted say more than an inch beyond the flange you re stuck replacing the flooring around the toilet. It goes under the flange and transfers the load of the flange and toilet and you out onto more solid surrounding wood. When the toilet is reinstalled its base will rest squarely on the new. A spongy floor around the toilet is a strong indication that the subfloor has absorbed water.