Floor Under A Toilet

Since you re raising the level of the floor you ll likely need to raise the level of the flange that skirts the drain as well.

Floor under a toilet.

Repair floor under toilet nail the plywood to the floor joists. Access a crawl space or basement and locate the plumbing drain below the toilet. When choosing bathroom flooring consider how it will perform under stress and the stress event in this case involves water lots of it. Water is so prevalent in bathrooms that it is an expectation not an anomaly.

Peel the flooring several inches beyond the rotted area. Enough to create two square frames to fit between the floor joists and under the cuts. If only the area directly below the flange is rotted you can install a two piece steel closet flange support. The toilet has to be removed and the flooring cut to go around the floor drain.

Am installing some allure vinyl floating floor in bathroom i am also installing a new toilet flange and toilet since i replaced the subfloor there. Clean the flange well or use a new one and install over the drain and new wood. Make sure to make your nails flush with the wood. Then the toilet is reset so the base covers the cuts around the drain.

Because laminate flooring floats above the sub floor on top of underlayment it will expand and contract slightly with the temperature and humidity of the room. Toilet drains are 3 or 4 inch in diameter and have a p trap below the toilet. On the walls ceiling and the floor. Toilets tend to leak below typically into a basement and seeing cases where a toilet is actually leaking on to the floor is quite rare.

Put on safety glasses and work gloves. If you re installing a new floor pedestal sink and toilet you should install the laminate flooring first so it s under the sink and toilet. A spongy floor around the toilet is a strong indication that the subfloor has absorbed water. A toilet would actually never leak right onto the floor.

It goes under the flange and transfers the load of the flange and toilet and you out onto more solid surrounding wood. If there is any leaking that occurs in a toilet it would happen through the floor and not on the floor. But if your floor is severely rotted say more than an inch beyond the flange you re stuck replacing the flooring around the toilet. Then i leave a gap of 1 4 or so to the rest of the flooring that will be.