Floor Under A Toilet

Discover swollen discolored wood a sure sign that the subfloor needs replacing.

Floor under a toilet. It goes under the flange and transfers the load of the flange and toilet and you out onto more solid surrounding wood. Clean the flange well or use a new one and install over the drain and new wood. Enough to create two square frames to fit between the floor joists and under the cuts. When choosing bathroom flooring consider how it will perform under stress and the stress event in this case involves water lots of it.

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. On the walls ceiling and the floor. Then i leave a gap of 1 4 or so to the rest of the flooring that will be. You may need to scrape the flange with a small putty knife and use a wire brush to get it clean and free of any corrosion or debris.

Water is so prevalent in bathrooms that it is an expectation not an anomaly. 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. A toilet would actually never leak right onto 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.

Access a crawl space or basement and locate the plumbing drain below the toilet. Then the toilet is reset so the base covers the cuts around the drain. 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. 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.

But if your floor is severely rotted say more than an inch beyond the flange you re stuck replacing the flooring around the toilet. Put on safety glasses and work gloves. If only the area directly below the flange is rotted you can install a two piece steel closet flange support. Toilet drains are 3 or 4 inch in diameter and have a p trap below the toilet.

Repair floor under toilet nail the plywood to the floor joists. A spongy floor around the toilet is a strong indication that the subfloor has absorbed water. Peel the flooring several inches beyond the rotted area. The toilet has to be removed and the flooring cut to go around the floor drain.