Do-it-yourself toilet installation

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To install equipment and dismantle an old product, you will need the following tools and materials:

Content:

  • Dismantling an old toilet
  • Step-by-step installation guide
  • On dowels
  • On taffeta
  • Adhesive bonding
  • Cistern
  • Connection to water supply and sewerage
  • How to install a wall hung toilet?
  • Choosing a toilet before buying
  • Flushing method
  • Flush cistern design
  • Bowl types
  • Sewer release
  • Manufacturing material
  • Advice
  1. drill;
  2. screws;
  3. dowels;
  4. scrap;
  5. silicone sealant;
  6. soft material backing;
  7. corrugated pipe;
  8. washers;
  9. anchor;
  10. rubber gaskets;

Preparatory work includes:

  1. Freeing up the space required for work.
  2. Cleaning the surface where the equipment will be mounted from dust and other contaminants.
  3. Preparation of all necessary materials and tools.

Dismantling an old toilet

Dismantling works are not particularly difficult. It is advisable to carry out work with gloves and goggles, and treat the dismantled product with disinfectants.

To remove possible water leakage from the siphon, you need to prepare rags and a container.

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Further, it is necessary to follow the stages of work:

  1. Shut off the waterentering the tank. If it is full, then pour water out of it.
  2. Disconnect the water supply.
  3. Unscrew the screwssecuring the toilet bowl to the floor (if it is impossible to unscrew them, cut it off or break it off).
  4. If the product has been installed for a very long time, then it could be mounted on a board that is attached to the floor. Then it is necessary to remove this board as well. To do this, you need to unscrew the screws or use a crowbar.

Dismantling work must be carried out carefully to avoid damage to floor tiles and other plumbing.

Step-by-step installation guide

Before installation, it is necessary to clean the neck of the sewer pipe. It can be closed for a while.

Then, you need to carry out the following work:

  1. Corrugated pipe put on the release from the bowl and put the toilet to the installation site.
  2. Under the landing heel put a pad of soft material You can use the remains of Isolone or Isoflex for this. If not, then silicone sealant will do.
  3. Move the toilet, and at the place of its installation make marks for the exact place of installation and fasteners

On dowels

Installing the toilet on dowels

To mount on dowels, you need to make holes in the floor using a drill with a diamond drill. If there is a tile on the floor, it must be drilled without perforation, and the concrete layer in impact mode must be drilled with perforation.

Then:

  1. In prepared holes install the dowels.
  2. Gasket put in place of installation.
  3. Put the product like thisso that the holes for the anchorage line up with the holes in the floor.
  4. Into the holes in the heel install washers and screws.
  5. Screw up them into the dowels.

On taffeta

The man draws the installation site of the taffeta for the toilet

This fixing method is suitable for wooden floors. Before installation, in the place where the toilet will be installed, it is necessary to make a small recess, a little more than the thickness of the taffeta substrate.

Taffeta is a durable wood liner treated with linseed oil. It is necessary for fixing the equipment.

To fix it you need:

  1. Bottom of taffeta fix the anchor.
  2. Deepening, prepared for the installation of the toilet, must be filled with a solution of cement.
  3. Taffeta is inserted and sunk into the solution, down with anchors, until it is aligned with the floor surface.
  4. For drying it takes 12 hours, after which you can start installing the equipment.
  5. Attach equipment to taffeta it is necessary with the help of screws, under the heads of which it is necessary to lay rubber washers. This is to prevent damage to the bed.

Wooden taffeta can be replaced with a rubber product with a minimum thickness of 5 mm.

Adhesive bonding

Mounting the toilet with glue

This installation method is only possible on a flat and smooth surface, for example, on a floor tile:

  1. First of all, the surface must be degreased.
  2. Apply epoxy glue on the base of the toilet (the layer thickness should be about 5 mm).
  3. Install the equipment in the selected location, while combining the sewer socket with the outlet.
  4. Toilet bowl press firmly to the floor.

In this state, it must be left for 12 hours. You cannot use the equipment at this time. Only after this time you can start connecting the water supply.

Cistern

Drain tank installation diagram

A conventional cistern is very easy to install. It must be bolted to the ledge on the toilet bowl. In this case, it is necessary to insert sealing washers between the cistern and the toilet, the cistern and the bolts.

Connection to water supply and sewerage

Installing the flange in the toilet

To connect the equipment to the water supply, a flexible hose must be installed. It is mounted at one end to the water pipe, and the other to the tank. The nuts must be tightened with a wrench on both sides. Rubber washers can be used to seal.

To connect to the sewage system, it is necessary to treat the edges of the corrugated pipe with a sealant and connect it to the neck of the sewer pipe.

A distinctive feature of equipment with a vertical outlet is the direction of the outlet branch pipe to the bottom. For installation on the floor, markings must be applied. After that, install the flange equipped with a floor clamp.

Install a sewer pipe in its hole. And mount the equipment on the flange, turning it until it is fully fixed. The outlet branch pipe must be pressed tightly against the sewer pipe. The seal ring provides a tight and secure connection.

The horizontal outlet is connected to the sewerage system with a sealing collar. This option allows the equipment to be placed tightly against the wall.

To connect a device with an oblique outlet to the sewer, it is necessary to impose a seal roll on the outlet. In this case, the winding should not reach the end of the branch pipe by 5 mm. Then, you need to install and fix the toilet, insert the outlet pipe into the sewer pipe and fix it.

How to install a wall hung toilet?

Wall hung toiletBefore carrying out work, you need to prepare the place and examine the wall behind the toilet. To secure the installation, a main wall is required, and partitions, for example, made of plasterboard, will not work for this.

It is advisable that the installation of a wall-hung toilet should be no more than one meter.

The installation is a metal secure frame that is attached to the wall. Anchor bolts are required to secure it. TO

The structure must not only be stable, but also flat. A special water tank is built into the frame. After that, the structure is sheathed with building material, for example, moisture-resistant plasterboard.

After that, it is necessary to connect cold water to the tank, while the valve on the equipment must be closed. The bowl is installed last.

Choosing a toilet before buying

The types of toilets are divided into several classifications:

  1. Flush design.
  2. Drain tank design.
  3. Bowl option toilet bowl.
  4. By installation method and fixing.
  5. Equipment material.
  6. Release down the drain.
  7. By way of functioning flush.

Each classification of a species has its own subspecies, which are characterized by certain characteristics and features.

Flushing method

Toilet flush types

According to the flush option, toilets are available with a forward and reverse flush system. Direct flush is more traditional and common. Water comes from the tank without changing the direction of movement and washes the equipment bowl. This system is quite noisy and often produces a lot of splashes.

Back flushing is carried out when the direction of water movement is reversed. This feature allows you to create a more even flush without a lot of splashing and noise. With a back flush, the water consumption is more economical than with a direct flush.

Flush cistern design

The built-in cistern in the installation system is a metal frame system with a cistern installed.

The tank can be mounted in the structure in two ways, or it can be completely absent.

This feature allows you to distinguish 3 types of toilet bowls by design:

  1. Classic "Compact" design - a cistern on the toilet.
  2. The tank is separate.
  3. Built-in tank into the installation system.

The classic look of the product can be called the most common. The cistern is installed on a ledge at the back of the toilet bowl, and is bolted to it, or it can be already built-in.

The design with the tank separate from the bowl saves space. It can be built into a niche, mounted on a ceiling or in a wall, or completely hidden.

The toilet bowl, due to the lack of a protrusion for the cistern, moves more tightly to the wall. The connection at the product and the tank is made using a pipe. This connection provides a better flush than in the classic design, since the head of the suspended versions is more significant.

The entire built-in tank system is hidden behind a specially equipped wall or in a niche. All that remains in sight is the equipment bowl and the water flush button.

Bowl types

Types of toilet bowls

Equipment bowls are most often of 3 types:

  1. Teretylchatye - the back wall of the product in the form of a plate.
  2. Funnel-shaped - imported models.
  3. Visor - relative to the floor, the back wall has a forward tilt.

Sewer release

There are three options for discharging water into the equipment:

  1. Oblique.
  2. Horizontal.
  3. Vertical.

When choosing a release option, one must take into account the location of the sewer pipe. Of all the options, the horizontal one is considered universal, since it allows you to connect both to the sewer pipe located on the floor and in the wall.

Manufacturing material

Porcelain toilet

Earthenware and porcelain toilets are distinguished. Faience is distinguished by its increased moisture absorption.

The service life of this product is not so long, and during operation, cracks may appear on it, and the appearance loses its qualities.

Advice

  1. When installing a suspended version of the equipment, it is necessary to use the instructions corresponding to it, since various installation nuances are possible for each model.
  2. When choosing equipment, it is necessary to pay attention to the quality of the valves. A fragile and low-quality product can fail very quickly.
  3. To save water, you can choose a product with a double flush. The presence of small and large output does not greatly affect the cost of equipment, but it allows you to save on water costs.
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