Installing Flooring Around Toilet Flange

As for the toilet you will want to get the flange to floor level.

Installing flooring around toilet flange. Step 2 prepare the templates using the measuring tape measure the flange s diameter and add an additional inch to the entire measurement on the outside. If the vanity is like a cabinet and will not have space between it and the floor you will install the vanity and then install flooring around it. A small curve around the toilet base will be left untiled as the square tiles will not meet the shape of the flange. Don t tile around the toilet flange the circular piece that connects to the drain pipe and upon which the toilet itself will rest until the end.

Tile the areas away from the toilet flange first. If it will simply sit on top of the flooring with legs then the flooring will go throughout the whole space. In a typical toilet installation the floor flange that sits inside the drain opening below the toilet should be positioned so that its bottom surface rests flush against the finished floor or no more than 1 4 inch above or below the floor this ensures that the flange makes a watertight seal against the wax ring that fits between the drain opening and drain outlet horn on the underside of. A toilet drain flange can sit above or below the finished floor level.

The installation process is the same for a tile floor a hardwood or carpeted bathroom floor. So what i am thinking is i basically cut a round or square i guess now that i think about it piece to go under the flange. If the flooring raises the toilet more than 1 2 inch off the flange install a flange extender or a conventional wax ring may not seal the toilet. A flange extender is easy to install it.