Toilet Floor Bolts Broken

If your toilet is rocking either the flange bolts are broken or the flange is broken.

Toilet floor bolts broken.

If it s concrete you may have to pull the anchor out and vacuum the hole out and set a new anchor in with epoxy. You mean you don t have to remove the entire toilet to then re. This happens when the flange does not have the locking slot on the underside to hold the bolts. Take the old part to your local home depot for a proper replacement match.

Or for some reason the slot is broken. If an anchor bolt or the closet flange beneath the toilet breaks however replacing the bolts is necessary. In order to replace toilet bolts without removing toilet you will have to unscrew the bolts with an anticlockwise movement while holding the nut with the other hand. Clear the wax ring from the base of the flange by scrapping it away with a putty knife or paint scraper.

Fix a rocky or leaky toilet with a broken closet flange. Toilet anchor bolts also called closet bolts or flange bolts secure the base of the toilet to the floor. If it s close to the surface and crosses below where you are drilling you could strike black gold. Unbolt the toilet from the flange with a wrench lift it off and set.

Hold the toilet upright over the flange and guide the bolts through the holes in the base as you lower it in place. On my toilet o. Once it s on the floor push down on the bowl to compress the wax ring. Most of the time the original bolts remain in place even during wax ring changes.

Now that you have uncovered the bolts now it s time to unscrew it. We will have to use a wrench since these bolts of fixed really tight holding the toilet onto the floor.