Too much wax or sealing material and you will block the toilet not enough wax and the toilet will leak around the flange.
How to set toilet flange on tile floor.
Set your toilet flange into position on top of the tile with the back holes lined up parallel to the wall behind and the two slots parallel to the two walls on each side of the toilet.
Toilet flanges are designed to be installed at floor level or set on top of the finished floor.
I have tile on top of a concrete slab.
Set toilet flange on concrete and tile floor.
If the flange sits above the tiled floor no spacer is.
Align the holes in the toilet with the closet flange bolts and slowly lower it until the bowl meets the wax ring.
I am going to set a toilet tomorrow and i am not sure how to set the flange.
Then compress the toilet against the wax ring to make a good watertight seal.
Add a spacer beneath the toilet flange to bring the flange level with the tiled floor if the tile abuts the edge of the toilet flange.
This video how to install toilet flange above tile on concrete floor or concret slab shows the process of installing toilet flange above porcelain tile or ov.
The roughed in pipe is four inches.
Tighten the nuts with a wrench.