I don’t understand how you stopped the two side bolts from spinning. And I don’t see what the bolt towards the front of the flange has to do with anything. The toilet is secured to the flange by the side bolts not by the front since toilets don’t have holes in the front.
I find the bolt to flange design horrible. I could design the flange 1000 times better so bolts never turn. Thanks for your video. It’s a workaround of a poorly designed toilet mating system. Companies make crap knowing they will fail in order to get people to buy more things to try to fix their terrible designs. Corporations need to be regulated more and designs should have to go through a review process before it can be sold to the public. I’m sick of companies making defective products.
Don't US hacksaws have the ability to rotate the blade 90 degrees so you can saw with the blade flat? A correctly tensioned (and sharp) blade will work much more effectively. Anyway, having looked for such a video and not finding one, I attempted something similar myself with a thin layer of cardboard for protection. The bolts were actually very easy to cut through and I had fitted a budget soft close seat in no time. Cleaning the rusted fragments and debris from the floor was the biggest issue and I'd recommend putting something like an old towel on the floor as a magnet didn't help much at all. Only after I had completed the task has your video popped up in the recommendations.
I just used your m method to get the rusted bolts off the toilet! Thank you SOOO much !!! I'm a non-mechanically inclined person and you made this so easy to follow.
Very good tip regarding the two sharp points coming together make a long straight line which is an indicator to the installer that the connection/layout is not correct!!! This saved me!!! All is working properly now with the installation of the pavers!!!
Bad. Advice. Try using a drill with a socket driver; if you make the nut spin fast enough it will usually grab the bolt and tighten itself (even if bolt was spinning). An impact usually works best for a quick grab. Also... If you can't get bolts out due to spinning when removing a toilet, then you should probably grind it in half and replace them... And as others have stated, fix your flange first! Don't give hack advice! You should never have to add an extra screw to fix something you don't know how! There is a reason people pay professionals to do this. They do it the right way.
wonder how many people have dropped a camera down the hole while filming these types of jobs! hahaha Thanks for the video! although I have concrete slab, wondering if I could use tapcon for same purpose, here goes nothing!
I have found the best fastest way to deal with these plastic nuts. I used a 5 and 1 tool. A chisel will also work. Set the blade right on the nut and use a hammer to cut through the nut. Once it cracks open it will break the seal it has and will unscrew easily.
Ok, that won't work. You have placed the right side bolt IN THE WRONG PLACE. Also, most toilets are over a concrete floor, and you're not going to screw a 3" deck screw into concrete. ALSO, the flange is BROKEN on the left! ALSO, where is the nut that holds the bolt to the flange so it won't spin, in the first place? Place your bolt in the proper place, tighten the nut onto it, leaving the bolt sticking up to fasten the toilet to, place the rubber ring (or wax ring if you are cheap) set the toilet, and tighten the nut over a washer on top. This only holds the toilet to the flange, the other two screws in a typical 4 bolt toilet hold it to the floor. (Don't buy a toilet that's only held to the floor with two bolts, or that has less than 4 gallon flush tank!) Yes, you might have to search out a vintage toilet instead of going to the hardware store, because they no longer sell such good toilets, but that flush sound is well worth it!) You need to replace that flange and then start over, instead of giving people bad advice.
Thank you! I saw about 4 or 5 different methods, but the hacksaw worked. A bit laborious, but I liked this method the best. Fortunately, I had a mini hack saw which made it a little easier than holding the blade directly.
Man, don’t be lazy. Scrape that junk up like I had to as a homeowner putting tile in my house. The last person laid tile over linoleum cause they were too lazy to scrape it up. It’s nothing but extra work down the road and a mess for the next guy. 🤦🏻♂️ 😒
Bit confused. i understand how you screw your screw secures the closet bolt. however the location where the closet bolt is located is not at about in 2 oclock position. doesn't it have to be at the 3 oclock position in order to go through the hole in the toilet to align correctly? thank you
This has to be the dumbest design I have ever seen. I have two frozen bolts(been wd040ing for two days)....no matter what...vice grips or whatever...i cannot get the bolts off because the bolt keeps spinning...they are brass i think..i think my vice grips now are ruining the threads...oh yes...my toilet is still mounted...and not leaking..just loose bolts...they could not have come up with something better than this?
Such terrible design... I had this issue on the last toilet I removed, and now the current one I'm doing. How many people have had to deal with this. F'n ridiculous.
@@BEasay You know...sometime after that post...I FINALLY got the bolts loose..barely. It was tough because the toilet was in between a wall and a vanity and I have about 5 inches on each side...I could get no leverage...it smelled a bit like urine down there(it was a restore thing), and I was sweating bullets.....but finally. I think I finally used TWO small vice-grips with teeth I had to buy. To this day...whenever I look at those bolts...I think..."I could never get those off again..."
This was incredibly helpful. I was looking for the answer to this for quite a while. Instead of the "More" at the top right, there was a switch under the different accounts that had the auto-sync feature you mentioned. Thank you!
Terrible video of nothing. Narrator spoke endlessly and did not demonstrate one aspect concerning the title of the video. Six minutes I will never get back.
Thanks, it had me fooled. I'm doing a walkway, not a driveway so I only need a strip of them. Sets of three with the "points" going counterclockwise. Then I thought of the sets as whole pieces and laid them in a line. Pause the video at 2:07 and look right in the middle to see a set of three.
Step 1, steal underwear. Step 2, ... Step 3, profit. Thanks for nothing, you skipped showing the major parts of the job. Just like he SouthPark underwear gnomes...LoL
I struggled with a spinning bolt for an hour yesterday trying to clamp the bolt with anything I could think of but nothing worked until I tried this. Had it finished and tightened properly in minutes afterwards. Thanks so much for the video! 👍
Can we use nuts to tie it down before we mount the toilet and then tie the nuts on the top? I just worked on the leaking toilet, the bolts keep spinning.
How do you install wooden T-molding to an existing track? My problem is the track isn’t quite wide enough for the T-molding to fit into. How would you correct that situation?
Thanks dude. I don’t caulk much. But I just grabbed my caulking gun and I guess my wife just put it away. That caulk of course was hard and unusable. But now I am going to just grab some wing nuts. Thanks.
