Its because all of us who have done anything knows that every now and again you pick up a little tip or trick that we didnt use before that would help us from now on. The love we have for our trades and skills is from us knowing that we dont know everything and there is always something to learn.
Don't scratch the Rolex!!...I remember as a kid my uncle was in town for Christmas and he owned a HVAC company. As he did every year he would check out the gas furnace for my dad. He always wore a big Rolex and I remember him telling me as I watched "you never want to see your HVAC tech come in to repair your furnace wearing a Rolex because you aren't going to like the bill."
I love the knipex tools as well! The parallel jaw pliers have all but replaced my crescent wrenches. The “button slider” models are worth the extra $ in my opinion because they are so much more adjustable. (It makes it possible to set a the perfect width to get a ton of compression with one hand.)
Learn something new every day. That water solidifier is cool. Love those American Standard hold downs. I don't use wax rings anymore. Especially if i am going to be the one removing the toilet.
I like that gel, must look out for it. I always plunge as much water down the drain as I can, then soak the remainder up with rags. I use to install about 5 toilets a day, it's a pretty good living on it's self.But, I used (for about 6 years) the same two pliers I got at Dollarama for about $3.50.I still have them. :-) ..
Pro tip. Cut a colored drinking straw (unless you're in CA) in half and slide each half over bolts. Easier to see and to line up the toilet slots with the bolts.
Would have been a good place to use the waxless seal since you will be pulling that toilet again for their remodel. I changed 2 toilets today, used a Korky waxless on one, and a fluidmaster waxless on the other. They were very similar. I'm changing a third toilet tomorrow, got a Danco "perfect seal" for that one. The Danco has wax inside a rubber donut. Supposedly it can be repositioned like the others. It was the most expensive of the three.
I've never had a problem getting rid of a dozen golf balls during a round or 2 of golf. I will keep this toilet in mind for when the weather is bad and the golf balls are building up.
Hey Handyman, love all the great videos have learned alot. I currently a do maintenance for a apartment complex and just thought it was funny when I saw that toilet you installed. We had one installed for a resident that constantly clogged their toilet on a daily basis. We thought that thing would never clog haha but ya still happened.
Always keep some straws (from McDonald's) in the plumbing kit, slide em over flange bolts to help line up the setting. McDonald's seem to have the perfect diameter straws.
Used my Knipex pliers today. Use them almost every day. I only have one, same type as yours. Used to have 2, but lost one somewhere at a job. I got mine from my dear old dad when he passed on.
Terrific video. I use a sponge to remove water in both the tank and the hopper. I no longer use wax rings I have had too many leaking issues. I now use a product called Sani Seal toilet ring. It is freakin awesome. Just my two cents.
I replaced one in a medical building that had some sort of offset oblong flang in the floor almost double the size of the toilet flang opening. Spent the better part of a morning trying to figure out a solution. Not even the old timers at the plumbing store me had an answer for me. I ended up using 2 extra tall wax rings to mold a customer seal (got the idea from the removed toilet) and called it good. Showed the client the issue and told them no guarantees. They didn’t care and almost 2 years later no call back haha.
When you put that powder into the toilet all I could think of was an old trick of using Jell-O then adding a few ice cubes so it will set up faster. Obviously this stuff works better and faster! BTW, anyone can replace a toilet in 20 - 30 minutes but you also have to figure the time to get a new one, wait in line to pay, load it in your vehicle, then disposal of the old one. Even if you move right along that can easily add an hour to the task, not to mention the travel time. Basically you need to figure someone's time for at least 2 hours on the whole job.
The push button knipex are a lot nicer to use. Did apartment maintenance for a decade without German tools, idk if they make a difference besides me making sure I leave each job with all my tools.
You might have been more impressed with the Knipex pliers that have nylon blocks on the ends and with some form of grip lock or ratchet mechanism. The purpose of the nylon being to not scar the fittings during loosening and tightening.
Setting a toilet is very easy. People think it’s harder than it is. Good job on setting the toilet. Couple things for people if they want to try, attach the tank to the bowl before you set it then you don’t have to do it up against the wall. Secondly you can just out the wax ring on the toilet flange. You don’t need to put it on the toilet first. Just out it in the ground flange in the right spot and it will set perfectly.
Good video. Thanks. In an emergency if you don't have the Liquilock, but have some baby diapers, cut them open and dump the powder in the toilet. It will gel-up but probably not as thick as the Liquilock. The same chemical is sometimes used in potting soil to retain moisture for potted plants.
Excellent advice to treat your customers like they're the only thing that matters. I always refer my guys to my friends depending how they treat me. However, Those guys are so good, they're too busy for my friends anyways.
The toilet shutoff valves that fail are usually the multi-turn type that use a rubber washer that gets compressed against a valve seat to stop the water flow. Over time the washer degrades and corrosion or debris can keep the valve from closing. You can sometimes find a rebuild kit for them that will fix the issue, but the better fix is to replace the valve with a quarter-turn ball valve. This is usually a great application for a push-to-connect valve like a SharkBite or similar. Sweat the old valve off or remove the compression nuts, clean up the pipe and little and push on the new valve.
@@oldarkie3880 as long as you don't caulk around the whole perimeter it should be fine as long as a puddle is noticable. It's a personal preference, I don't caulk around mine in case there's a leak in the doughnut seal.i want to be able to find it quick.
Clear silicone, leave a bit of the back uncaulked, That way it can relieve water pressure if it gets backed up on top of your floor and not under, you can see any rot which if installed properly, should not happen for about 20 years easy, every mechanism inside your tank should break before that seal does... and the silicone keeps debris from slipping under your toilet. You know that helplessness you feel when you keep sweeping those last crumbs and one or two more keeps slipping out from underneath the toilet or baseboard, get good with your caulk.
I only put a little Teflon tape on the threads to ensure they don't seize. Not just water lines either, any metal to metal contact threads where water might be present. It is all about making it easy to take apart the next time it needs work. I have had to take fittings apart after they sat for 30 or 40 years and I wished someone would have thought ahead. In general, it may not help me, but maybe it will help someone else in the future. It would probably do the same to use some atni-seize lubricant, but I don't carry that with me and I wouldn't want to put that on a supply line that goes to a sink. I have had a couple times where I went back to work on a kitchen sink where I did this. Once to replace the faucet and another time to replace the dispose-all. It made taking the fittings apart just as easy as it was putting them together ten years before. Maybe it helps, maybe not, but it doesn't hurt.
I know the instructions say to stick the wax seal to the toilet bottom and then put the toilet bottom onto the flange, but the one time I did it that way, it slipped off. I didn’t find out until I hooked everything up and it leaked. Now I use a green, non wax gasket that allows you to reposition it if you ‘miss’ when attaching the bowl. They’re great, have you ever tried one? Thanks!
Hey! Dont know if you looking for some cool new products, but i am a plumber and use adjustable no cut toilet bolts all the time. I believe they are made by fluid master. Makes the job a hell of a lot easier when you don't have to cut any bolts
"kuh-ni-pecks" ... Wranglerstar did a video on the Knipex pliers and I went to their homepage to find out how the company pronounced it. They say "kuh-ni-pecks".
I always put the wax ring on the flange instead of the toilet and haven’t ever had a problem. Just seems a little easier than sticking it to the bottom of the toilet
If you put it to the floor first, there's a great chance that due to an inadequate contact between the wax and the toilet the latter will leak (over the ring)
@@maxxtheautumn nah that’s why you never use the standard size wax rings. Way too wimpy, I always get an extra thick reinforced wax ring. For a couple bucks more you won’t have those problems
Never trust a toilet with a loose flapper. That's just plain good advise. Never trust a person with a loose flapper either. That's just plain good experience.
You can get rid of most of the water in the bowl by quickly dumping about half a bucket of water into it - it creates a siphon. Only a couple of inches of water will remain in the bowl.
Perfect Timing!! Just got an estimate to replace our 20 year old toilet with that exact model. I know it goes for $200 at the Depot. The plumber estimate for job was $650 here on Long Island. I know what I said but What say you, Handyman to that quote?
The magic potion "gel" material might be sodium polyacrylate. It's used, among *many* other things, in pet pads, and can absorb an absurd amount of water--like 300x its weight.
Out of curiosity what is the deciding factor when you wear a metal wedding band vs those silicon ones you wear occasionally? Whenever I do home projects I tend to take mine off since I learned what degloving was. Also nice Rolex 😉
I cant beleive youre still using wax rings. The "better than wax" seals are amazing. Especially if youre doing a bathroom remodel and need to take the toilet in and out during the project.
