- [Jeff] And you can see this thing's not gonna,
move here, its not gonna loosen.
(wrench clanks)
Well hello everybody again, Jeff here.
Welcome to another episode of:
"The Previous Owner Was a Moron".
So, right here what you can see,
and we've come across this every once
and a while, when we're, doing our remodels.
Is, here's your toilet bolt, at the
bottom of the toilet, with the nut,
and you go to loosen the nut,
cause you wanna remove the toilet,
and guess what, it's fused to the bowl.
It's not going to do anything,
in fact I can feel underneath
the toilet, the bottom end of the
toilet bolt is actually, uh, loose and spinning now
because these two are stuck together.
(wrench clanks)
So what do you do? How do you get
yourself out of this position?
If you can't undo the screw there,
the, the nut, (clanks wrench) and there's no way
to get under there to, to hold the
bottom of the closet bolt in place.
Well for this folks, we have to go old school,
and this is where we bring in our
little angle grinder, here, and
what you have to do then, is you're
going to put your angle grinder
right up to there and you're just gonna cut
right through the nut, and right
through the, that closet bolt there.
And once you've done that, then
you can lift the toilet out.
Now it's kind of dangerous work,
so you wanna make sure that you have
gloves on, that you have eyewear,
you want your eye protection on.
And I also like to wear the big
ear muffs to keep the sound down as well.
So, let's go ahead and get this bolt cut here.
(angle grinder sounds)
(high pitched sawing sounds)
Okay, so now that we've cut the
thing off, see, here it goes,
that's all you gotta do, now you'll
be able to lift up your toilet. (sighs)
So you could see how the previous
homeowner was just, stupid because,
they never had those white caps
on there covering those nuts,
you should always have those white caps on there,
I mean come on people, they're only
like three bucks, you know you go to
Home Depot, they're right there,
takes you one second to click em on.
And that will keep all the water and humidity,
and God knows what other liquids
come oozing down the side of the bowl here,
uh, from ever landing on those nuts,
and causing them to freeze up like that.
And uh, that's the problem that we see way too many times.
Alright so now, what we're going to do is,
we're going to remove the hose
from the bottom of the toilet here.
So you see you got that nut right there,
(smacks lips) So,
so, with that you just use these
channel locks here, and just loosen the nut,
(wrench clanks)
and whatever little bit of water might be
underneath, at the bottom of the tank,
will just, ooze out over (mumbles)
into this, little pan here.
It shouldn't be too much, just a few drops.
And now your toilet is completely disconnected,
and you can lift it up, and move it out.
So here we are, we got the toilet
on the cart, and then the next
thing you wanna do immediately after
getting the toilet out of there,
is you wanna scrape off all of
the wax, see all that wax, that
old wax ring that's on there,
scrape it off completely, and then plug that hole.
So, we usually use a couple of wash cloths,
and uh, just stick em right on there,
and let em cover the hole so the
vapor gases don't come up, or
you can also buy a cap at your big box store.