How to plumbing a toiletWelcome to plumbing-troubleshooter's plumbing a toilet page. Today you'll learn how to install a new toilet and get a leak free, smell free place to read the newspaper:) First you'll need to remove the old cracked hard to clean toilet
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First you need to decide what toilet will suit your set up and enable you to install with as little alteration to existing pipes and drain layout as possible. Measure the distance between the back wall to the centre of your drain. This measurement will allow you to go to your plumbing supplier armed with the information they need to match you up with a list of toilets.
Over 90% of all the toilets I am installing, are now one piece toilets, that is, china bowl and toilet tank connected together. These beauties are magnificent to look at and use minimum amounts of water to flush. The only draw back when installing the close coupled toilet suite is the lack of flexibility when it comes to your drain position. But wait, there's a solution that allows a small amount of flexibilty. It call the offset pan connector.
This offset comes in sizes ranging from straights to 40mm 1 1/2" offset. The only other way of getting round a drain measurement that doesn't suit is to go to a standard toilet with a flush pipe or altering your drain. If you have decided to go with a close coupled suite
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