Toilet bolts that spin! How to stop them even if the toilet is already installed. 

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.

Dude, you save my Sunday. I already installed, using old bolts. I was devastated when one side was spinning. I tried everything to grip it to no avail. I tapped the screw in just to see if it would secure it....bingo. Drilled it all the way in and worked like nobody’s business. Thank you!

Thank you for this tip! We had to replace our wax seal and our bolts wouldn't stop spinning - this worked great.

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! 👍

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.

Thanks for the help! Works great.

It worked for me. My bolt was spinning while removing an old rusty bolt to change wax ring leak. I sunk a 3 inch deck screw as close to the spinning bolt as I could and the darn thing stopped spinning and I was able to get the bolt off than just removed the deck screw. I tried Vise grips with PB blaster and I wasn't getting it off. This tricked worked great and I will never forget it now. Thanks.

It worked!! Thank you!

Thank you!

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

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.

I was at my local Walmart and they were out of sugar now I know where it's at

Could you use a nut and bolt to keep in place instead of a deck screw?

My house was built in the 1950's and I have concrete floors.

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!

That flange shown is broken on the left side and it is not really a good idea to reuse it without putting on a metal support piece they make for such broken flanges of changing out the flange you show in your video. Any rocking of the toilet by someone who plops down often as they sit there can continue to put stress on the flange at that area and you are then going to have issues which could have easily been fixed the first time around in securing those toilet bolts.

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?

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.

I can’t put my toilet in sideways though

that shit does not work

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.