Large Gap Between Toilet And Floor

The toilet should sit directly on the floor.

Large gap between toilet and floor.

Mortor like u would use for tile it kinda depends on what kind of floor the toliet sits on. Water has a way of seeping into any available opening and the bathroom expansion joint between the bathtub and the flooring is no exception. I have a house with stained concrete floors instead of any flooring on it and one of my toilets wasn t installed exactly right. The flange in the floor wasn t placed exactly.

I had a new toilet installed and the plumber left it up quite high because it would take too long to grind the flange down i didn t want to pay him for more time. How to fill the gap between the bathtub flooring. Cut the caulk tube tip square and drag the caulk gun toward you as you lay in a thick bead of caulk along the inside edge of. This still leaves a large gap that i need to some how cover.

I very roughly hand cut some pieces of flooring and doubled them up under the front of the new toilet to at least keep it level. Of course my new toilet has a different footprint than the old toilet and rests on the new floor at the back of the toilet but the old floor at the front. By the diy experts of the family handyman magazine. It is a gap of about 1 2 inch.

The best thing really is pull the tolet shorten the plumbing connection its a lot easier than you think. Fill gaps between 1 4 and 1 2 inch in width with two beads of caulk set side by side. The key is getting a good caulk seal between the toilet and the floor which prevents rocking and protects against leaks. There shouldn t be a gap.

Looks much better also. He recommended laying down ceramic tile to raise the floor up to the level of the toilet but i don t think even ceramic tile will do that.