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Hey I’m a licensed plumber in IL. Anytime I set a toilet I caulk the front and the sides, but I don’t go all the way back. About the front 1/3. Keeps it from rocking and creating leaks and till allows water to escape if the wax ring fails. Best of both worlds

Great video! I am tempted to do this😀Thank you!

I never heard of doing this until recently. I wish I had known about it before I redid my one bathroom. Thanks for the tip👍

Very helpful! By the way Humidity can cause water to form on the water reservoir tank and drip water on the floor giving a false (leaking) that's happened to me. Thanks again my friend.

Great info, thanks.👍🏼

I love the caulk condom. In red too lol.

Thank You. All the info I needed to make a well informed decision. I am old school, I like caulking. I prefer the clear caulk.

Very well done!! Thank you sir.

I have a friend who had a toilet that was not caulked. The tank to toilet seal seeped enough to just run down the toilet and under the base, rotting out the sub floor. He never saw the leak until it was too late because the water never pooled on the tile floor. I always caulk the toilet. The caulk adds a lot of stability to the toilet bowl, preventing movement that causes flange seal leaks.

Very good instructions.

love the channel please keep uploading

Thanks to you, we are all becoming pro caulkers. As a matter of fact, I globbed the heck out of 4 exhaust vents just today. I packed behind them so there is a seal/adhesion to the vinyl siding.

I like the idea of leaving a gap round the back, but that leaves an exit/entrance for insects again. My suggestion is to lay a couple of plastic straws round the back, leaving them poking out a 1/4 of an inch.... and caulk them in. If the straws are thin enough to exclude bugs, it will still allow water out... The straws on WD 40 cans are nice and thin and strong

Good advice, video

if you have a toilet clog that overflows or if you have kids who piss and miss the bowl, all that liquid goes underneath the toilet and will smell. i caulk all the way but leave a small gap in the back in case there is a leak in the wax ring.

Lexel is the greatest product to use for caulking around the toilet. In addition to toddlers missing the toilet, older people with dementia miss the toilet when urinating quite often.

Thank you!! Removed tile and added lv my toilet is way too high and the flange can not be lowered do to the angle. Can I use the calk to level the toilet that is too high??

What kind can I use for LVP?

Hi, I just moved into a duplex. The basement has 2 bedrooms, the bathroom and part of the basement with the Oil Tank, Hot Water Heater, and Furnace as well as the Washer, Dryer and Deep Freeze. Upon moving in, I noticed that there was 0 ZERO caulking in the bathroom!!!!!!!! None around the toilet, the tub, the baseboards...no caulking anywhere in the bathroom...not even in the shower. I've mentioned this during Inspection and told they don't do that.... same with the kitchen, no caulking. We are now seeing more critters in the basement all rooms, walking up to get to the second set of stairs no caulking in the entry way...so ants literally walk right in. Same with the upstairs. No caulking in the kitchen around the sink or the floor. I'm so happy to have found your RU-vid channel. Something I can show next time they come. I've a question for you, I can't remove the rubber plastic on the stairs, but I need to do something with them. They are swept and a few hours later look awful. I was wanting to put down the plastic peel laminate I've seen at the hardware stores but have been on the Internet and Pinterest looking for ideas. It attracts everything, hair, wooly balls, if it's on the floor it's on my stairs, no matter how many times I sweep or use a dryer sheet after cleaning baseboards I can get 3 months before having to wash them...but does nothing for the stairs. I have extreme limited mobility, but I cannot look at the stairs any longer. The entire stair is covered and there are 6 going upstairs to the main level, kitchen, living room and 2 bedrooms. Another 6 going down to the basement. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Also, if you could explain why caulking is needed in the bathroom, I can show it to the Inspector. My oldest has seen silverfish, ants and spiders in his room, my youngest ants and spiders and I've only seen ants in the bathroom. When I was younger my Grandad worked for a Plumbing and Heating company and when my mom and stepdad bought a house, my grandad went right to work fixing everything he saw wrong.... caulking was on the list. Our last place the caulking turned moldy, so I tore it all out and did it myself, there was a window in the shower big enough to crawl out and it had ZERO caulking around the window. It was gross, and I just noticed that the floor in the bathroom has changed colors and I'm guessing mold. Mold is in my youngest's room.... new pillow and was on the floor, he thought it was the rain, but I had my window open and no issues. We lost a lot of our belongings in the old house because of mold and the Rental Company was aware and did nothing. Brand new bed for my daughter when I was working, I bought all new beds for the kids, but a driver who was high rearended me on my way home from work, I can never work again and I'm just in my 40's. They wouldn't replace the bed, even though I had lost bookshelves, dressers, clothes, pictures, stuffed animals from kids being little. I'm beyond stressed and a small town I can't just ask around you can get evicted pretty easy. Sorry for the long post but you're the only other person I have found that talks about caulking. Off to check out the rest of your channel. Thank you for taking the time to read, this is my oldest account. My Gmail keeps getting hacked.... but I'm on RU-vid all the time so I'll check back every once in a while. Hope you're having a great summer.

Serious question: if you leave an inch without caulk in the back, what keeps the bugs from entering under toilet through the uncaulked gap? Am I'm missing something.? Thx

The avtige is if you have broken tiles it stop them from getting damaged more

Cool...a caulk cap

I like leaving a gap at the back also but it throws the bug theory out the window.

Set the toilet on a few pop cycle sticks and caulk under it. Tighten the bolts down the next day. The wax ring doesn't seal if the toilet rocks.

Not the sharp shooter 😂🤣 Most of us are not. 😂

Once you get water on your first layer, a subsequent layer will not stick to wet areas.

My girl didn't think caulking was necessary... Until one morning she's in the bathroom and sees a giant cockroach crawling up the wall. 😆😆😆

I was told to caulk the front and let the back open incase a leak.

Im gonna caulk now because I didn't know about the bugs

Set the toilet on plaster and grout the edge.

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Old school, use plaster instead of caulking.

🏆🏆🥇🥇

Use Grout. on any floor. The grout will seal the same way BUT grout will support the toilet all the way around and the toilet will NEVER rock back and forth. Even your big aunt can plop down on it after thanksgiving dinner and it wont budge. USE GROUT. = Dry time 24 hours. Hold time = longer than the toilets life.

Hell I’ve been using the toilet for 43 years and I’m still not a sharp shooter😂😂😂😂

Thoroughly confused.... when it comes to a house being on a concrete slab... and someone caulks around the toilet...if a leak does develop or the seal is broken..... what exactly happens? I mean, it's concrete

It’s the tutorial for me 💀😂😂

I’m a professional “handyman” and I approve this message.

Another disadvantage: What if the toilet needs to be lifted for a bad clog? I had this happen to me (kids) recently. Despite that I’d also caulk if there was any gaps - assuming the wax ring seal is properly fitted / seated.

Don't even blame the kids! It's husbands! hahaha

B U G S

Why do plumbers hate this?

I do NOT caulk and the argument for the inch gap for a water release area...If it's in the back it could take days or weeks before the water builds up around the toilet before the water fills all the voids before it reaches the back of the toilet, gross!

If you leave 1" of gap you don't prevent bugs to coming out. Don't get your point at all.

You only do 3/4 of it, leave the back not only for water to escape in case of a leak but it's a bitch

No never caulk the toilet and if you think about it you’ll probably agree 😊. If the toilet seal is properly installed it will never leak and if it isn’t you’ll want to know so you can remove toilet and repair. If the base of toilet is caulked and your seal is improperly installed you’ll have a puddle of water inside the circumference of the base that will rot your floor 😮. Is that what you want?😅.

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Train the boy to sit when he pees!

You won't notice when your seal fails. Enjoy your rotted subfloor.

if you leave a gap, the bugs will find it. why don’t toilets have a built-in gasket that doesn’t show? it would also help balance a toilet on an uneven floor

Pros hate this DIY??? Absolute rubbish and nothing but click bait. All of the new houses here have it done as standard.

You look a lot like the LifeHackster.