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.

Installing flooring around toilet flange.

A flange extender is easy to install it. If it will simply sit on top of the flooring with legs then the flooring will go throughout the whole space. 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. Tile the areas away from the toilet flange first.

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. Then i leave a gap of 1 4 or so to the rest of the flooring that will be. 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. The installation process is the same for a tile floor a hardwood or carpeted bathroom floor. 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. 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.