- Hello and welcome to today's plumberparts.co.uk video.
Today I'm going to tell you how
to remove and install your toilet.
This is a closed coupled cistern toilet
and it's going to be absolutely mental.
First up, remove the lid to your toilet.
Next, turn off the water supply.
To make sure the water supply is properly isolated
just flush the toilet and you should notice
that it isn't filling up.
(flushing sound)
So, as you can see there, not filling up.
You'll now notice that there's
about an inches worth of water in the bottom of the cistern.
Now, it's really handy that you get
this out before you do any more work
otherwise you'll get water everywhere.
Now, fortunately for me, I have a wet vac,
so I could just vacuum it out,
but you're probably not going to have that facility.
The best thing to do is grab yourself a towel,
put your towel in there, have a bucket
and keep wringing your towel out into the bucket.
Do the same with the toilet bowl as well
and make sure you just got the cistern and the bowel
as empty of water as you possible can get
before you move onto the next step.
Get rid of all the water that you possibly can.
(vacuum running)
Now to the toilet bowl. When you do it, wear some gloves,
even though it's probably going to be
your own poo juice anyway.
(vacuum running)
Now you've empty the cistern and the toilet bowl
of water we can move on to the next stage
which is disconnecting the water supply
to the toilet itself.
It's really easy to see on this toilet
it's just this flexible bit here.
So, you get a pair of adjustables and just loosen that off.
You might need a small towel just to catch
any water that's still sitting up in the valve,
just to make sure we don't have a small flood.
Fortunately, there's nothing in there. Brilliant.
Most cisterns have a way of actually
holding the cistern to the wall.
On this one here we've got these two screws here.
Remove them and then we can move on to the next stage.
Now it's time to remove the cistern from the toilet itself.
So you go down underneath the cistern.
You'll find two little wingnuts. Undo those
and you'll be able to rip the cistern off from the toilet.
Undo the one on this side as well.
So we've undone those two wingnut underneath.
We should now just be able to life up the system, like so.
Take it outside.
Now that we've removed the system from the toilet
we actually have to get the toilet up itself.
We're lucky in this house because the toilet waste
pipe going out the back is on a flexible multiquick.
Now it's probably best you go and buy one of these yourself
cause they're really easy to fit next time around,
rather than actually doing rigid four inch pipe work.
Most toilets are held down by a couple of screws
and a bit of silicon, so remove those screws,
cut the silicon and you should be able
to lift the toilet up and out of the way.
Just watch me do it.
So you get your screws here.
(drilling noise)
Once you've removed the screws
gently take off the soil pipe off the back of the toilet.
You should be able to remove it and take it away.
One thing I'd recommend at this point
is getting some paper, don't look,
hold the soil pipe and look way and just push your paper
in there so there's no smell.
By the way, you might need therapy after doing this bit.
Now that you've got the toilet out of the way
we can now prepare the area for the new toilet.
Just give everywhere a good clean.
Get all the debris out of the way.
As with a lot of bathroom jobs,
me as the plumber, I now have to wait
for the tilers to come in and do their bit,
get the floor down, before I can actually fit the toilet.
I'll be back here in a week,
but for you it will feel like a second.
We've got the new toilet here now.
The floor's been laid so we're ready
to put the toilet back in to the old pipe work,
marry all that properly.
The first thing we've got to do is actually
fix the toilet to the floor
and this one's got the internal L shaped clamps.
Now, a lot of toilets, what you need to do
is screw two screws down through
the porcelain into the floor.
Because we've got these L shaped clamps
we've got to do a little bit of measuring
to make sure they're in the right place.
So, the first thing we do is get the toilet
into the position that we want it to be in.
Push the waste back on.
We're very lucky we've got that flexible waste.
Push the toilet back to the wall,
exactly to where you want it to be.
Then we get a small pencil and make a tiny mark
next to each one of the holes.
Disconnect the toilet and the waste
from where it needs to be.
Next, put the toilet upside down
and get a couple of screws just
to hold this roughly in place.
Alright, grab yourself a tape measure
and measure the distance between
the two holes to the centres.
That's about 12 and a half there.
Now we measure between these two
to get our centres here, which is 22.
So, I'll centre for the whole toilet itself
is around 11 and we measure out
12 and a half, divided by 2 from that centre line there.
So that's 6.25
and we know exactly where to drill
and attach our two L shaped clamps.
Screw in and tie down each one of your brackets.
(drilling sound)
Well, I've got the fixings in
but before we carry on just get some silicon,
clear or whatever you can, whatever you've got,
and just run that around the inside of this beast here.
With any luck, when you put the toilet back on
you'll definitely not have any leaks.
So now we're ready to put the toilet back.
Let's just lift that over those two there.
Now's probably the best time to get your waste back on.
Push that back into position.
An excellent fit, if I don't mind saying so myself.
Now we can put the screws back in
and then concentrate on putting the cistern on
and then after that silicon around the bottom.
I've got some small screws here.
We just put the screw straight through
this protective sheath here,
take it up to the toilet and then screw it in.
(drilling sound)
We get our nice cap and pop that over like that.
And now we have a look at how we actually
fix the toilet system to the toilet basin itself.
Now, it seals around here.
This is where the flush comes out
and this will seal around the toilet.
If you look closely at the screws
you'll see they've got small square end on them
and they slot just under there like so
and then on the other side of the toilet
we have two wingnuts and two washers to tighten that up
and squash this up against the toilet.
So let's do that now.
So we lay our washer on here.
Just like that.
Now we have to go through the somewhat
agonising process of putting two on from underneath.
You try to set them up so their all ready to go,
just like that, and then have a look and feel around.
Once you've gone through the pain
and anguish and utter terror of what you've just done
you can then concentrate on actually
fixing the cistern itself cause it's still wobbly.
You should have two screws that go into the back of the wall
and a blob of silicon at the back
to make sure it doesn't move.
So first things first, get your silicon gun
and run a blob down the back,
just to pack it out and stabilise it when it dries out.
Just like this, put two screws,
couple of protective washers around each one,
and then just screw them in lightly,
they don't need to be to tight, these,
they're just steadying the toilet.
(drilling sound)
So, we've connected the system to the wall.
What we're going to do now is sort out the water supply
and the actual installation of
the toilet itself will be finished.
Alright, so next up we got to take this cap off
and get this pipe here that's not quite
long enough to go into this here.
So you're going to need to know
how to do a little bit of soldering
or you're going to need to know
how to use compression fittings.
I've done videos on both of those.
If you go back to the channel
and have a look you should be able
to find the information you need there.
What I'd always do on this particular bit
is when I take this off put a small isolation valve in here,
so that if there's any problems
you don't have to turn the whole system off.
You can just isolate the toilet itself,
work on it there and then.
So as you can see, nicely installed valve,
very nice and neat, and also, they've got
a nice isolation so any problems
they can just turn the toilet off on its own.
I hope you found this instructional video helpful.
If you need anymore help on the other parts
of actually doing a toilet, go back to our channel
where you'll also find videos on how to instal
a push button waste, how to seal down a toilet,
and also, how to fit a toilet seat.
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I'll see you all soon. I hope you had a wicked time
and I hope you've enjoyed installing this toilet
and I'll see you in the next video.
Hold tight.