It often happens that after some time after installation (entry into a new apartment), the toilet begins to swing under you, writing out a fortel. It seems that with any awkward movement you can completely get rid of it, dumping all its contents onto yourself. What if your toilet is dancing lezginka under your loins?
Root of evil
The main reason for the pitching of the plumbing device is always the loose fit of the toilet base to the floor. In this case, a gap appears between its lower part and the floor surface, which gives the device a promise to dance as soon as someone else’s body is set on it. And due to the fact that its base is relatively narrow compared to the bowl, there is always a sense of danger of a coup.
Toilet dances also contribute to leakage between the corrugated cuff and the toilet itself. Before you figure out what to do if your toilet is dancing, we’ll familiarize ourselves with the main causes of “dancing” in more detail and describe the solutions to the problem depending on them. So, the reasons are:
- Marriage products.
- Uneven floor surface.
- Loose mounting bolts (poor-quality mounting).
- The split device in the base area.
We bring to your attention a photo of a dancing toilet bowl, or to be more precise - of what permanent dancing can lead to.
Defective toilet
If you decide to buy a brand new toilet, you should take care to carefully check its foundation, through which it will be attached to the floor. Place the unit on a flat surface of the store floor. If you try to shake the device from side to side, it will begin to roll from side to side, which means that its bottom is defective. Choose the toilet that will show greater stability and will not swing.
But what if I have a toilet dancing, which I inherited, so to speak, “by inheritance,” that is, when I bought a house (apartment)? In this case, you have to:
- Check for loose bolts. If you are loosened (and it cannot be, in principle, otherwise, otherwise the toilet would swing along with a piece of floor), there is no point in tightening them, because the toilet will loose them again in speed because of its uneven surface.
- Remove the mounting bolts with an adjustable wrench.
- Lift the toilet bowl onto the glazing beads (wedges) above the floor.
- To clean the floor surface and the base of the toilet bowl from the old sealant (if any).
- Spill the floor in the place where the toilet will “sit down” with a solid layer of adhesive-sealant.
- Put the toilet in place by removing the wedges.
- Tighten new dowels (bolts) for fastening.
Attention! In no case do you need to tighten the bolts too tight, otherwise you can break off a piece of the base of the toilet bowl, after which it will be impossible to fix the device.
After a day (the time required for the sealant to harden is indicated on the syringe itself), the toilet can be used. If the curvature of the base is significant, it is better to replace it with a new, more stable device.
Uneven floor surface
What if your toilet is dancing due to the uneven surface of the floor? In this case, it is best to remove the toilet bowl completely and level the floor under the base. Work plan:
- Turn off the mounting bolts.
- Disconnect the corrugated cuff and the water supply hose.
- We remove the toilet bowl and set it aside, having previously cleaned its base from the old sealant.
- Level the floor under the toilet. In deplorable cases, if the floor is too uneven, it would be better to punch a small depression in the concrete with a puncher and re-fill it with concrete mix, having previously equipped with the dowels the sides of the bottom, hollowed out to fill the base, with a metal mesh for better adhesion of new and old concrete.
- We fill, level the surface with a rule (with skillful handling - with a spatula, if the surface should be below the layer of laid ceramic tiles).
- After hardening the surface, we mount the toilet bowl into place on the sealant, having previously drilled holes for new fasteners.
- After the sealant hardens, tighten the fastener bolts, connect the corrugated cuff and the water supply hose. You can use it.
Loose fasteners
What if your toilet is dancing simply because the hardware is loose? This also happens, and it is better to fix the problem immediately, as soon as the device starts to “dance” slightly. What we do in this case:
- We unscrew the fixing bolts, disconnect and remove the toilet bowl, as in the previous case, without forgetting to clean the sealant.
- We drill the nests of the old dowels with a perforator drill a size larger. We drive in new plastic fasteners for dowels the size of the drill used by us.
- We put the toilet in place, be sure to put it on the sealant.
- After it hardens, we connect the plumbing, we screw in the bolts, tighten, you can use it.
Attention! In no case can you drill old places under the dowels with a perforator without removing the toilet. In this case, you will definitely split its base.
Base split
What to do if your toilet bowl is dancing due to the fact that part of the base at the attachment points has broken off, which prevents the fasteners from properly pressing the device to the floor on both sides? This happens when no one paid attention to the "dancing" of the toilet for a long time, or when something heavy and hard was dropped on the leg with mounts. In this case, no matter what glue you use, everything will be unsuccessful, unless, of course, you completely fill the base of the toilet with concrete mixture. But this is real nonsense.
And therefore, for those who have cracked the base of the device, there is a direct road to the plumbing shop. And the procedure will be the same as in the case of loose fasteners, with the only difference that the fasteners do not need to be changed, and a new one is put in place of the old toilet. The following is one of the best examples of how to eliminate toilet dance.
Conclusion
We hope our answers to the question of what to do if your toilet is dancing were useful to you. And in conclusion, I would like to remind once again about the timeliness of preventing "dancing" of the plumbing device. Only in this way will you protect your toilet bowl from the imminent "death". After all, constant dancing without a break has not brought anyone to good. And your toilet is no exception.