- Hello and welcome to today's
plumberparts.co.uk video. Today I'm going to tell you how to remove and install your toilet. This is a closed coupled cistern toilet and it's going to be absolutely mental. First up, remove the lid to your toilet. Next, turn off the water supply. To make sure the water
supply is properly isolated just flush the toilet
and you should notice that it isn't filling up. (flushing sound) So, as you can see there, not filling up. You'll now notice that there's about an inches worth of water
in the bottom of the cistern. Now, it's really handy that you get this out before you do any more work otherwise you'll get water everywhere. Now, fortunately for me, I have a wet vac, so I could just vacuum it out, but you're probably not
going to have that facility. The best thing to do is
grab yourself a towel, put your towel in there, have a bucket and keep wringing your
towel out into the bucket. Do the same with the toilet bowl as well and make sure you just got
the cistern and the bowel as empty of water as you possible can get before you move onto the next step. Get rid of all the water
that you possibly can. (vacuum running) Now to the toilet bowl. When
you do it, wear some gloves, even though it's probably going to be your own poo juice anyway. (vacuum running) Now you've empty the
cistern and the toilet bowl of water we can move on to the next stage which is disconnecting the water supply to the toilet itself. It's really easy to see on this toilet it's just this flexible bit here. So, you get a pair of adjustables
and just loosen that off. You might need a small towel just to catch any water that's still
sitting up in the valve, just to make sure we
don't have a small flood. Fortunately, there's
nothing in there. Brilliant. Most cisterns have a way of actually holding the cistern to the wall. On this one here we've
got these two screws here. Remove them and then we can
move on to the next stage. Now it's time to remove the
cistern from the toilet itself. So you go down underneath the cistern. You'll find two little
wingnuts. Undo those and you'll be able to rip the
cistern off from the toilet. Undo the one on this side as well. So we've undone those
two wingnut underneath. We should now just be able to
life up the system, like so. Take it outside. Now that we've removed
the system from the toilet we actually have to get
the toilet up itself. We're lucky in this house
because the toilet waste pipe going out the back is
on a flexible multiquick. Now it's probably best you go
and buy one of these yourself cause they're really easy
to fit next time around, rather than actually doing
rigid four inch pipe work. Most toilets are held
down by a couple of screws and a bit of silicon,
so remove those screws, cut the silicon and you should be able to lift the toilet up and out of the way. Just watch me do it. So you get your screws here. (drilling noise) (drilling noise) Once you've removed the screws gently take off the soil pipe
off the back of the toilet. You should be able to
remove it and take it away. One thing I'd recommend at this point is getting some paper, don't look, hold the soil pipe and look
way and just push your paper in there so there's no smell. By the way, you might need
therapy after doing this bit. Now that you've got the
toilet out of the way we can now prepare the
area for the new toilet. Just give everywhere a good clean. Get all the debris out of the way. As with a lot of bathroom jobs, me as the plumber, I now have to wait for the tilers to come
in and do their bit, get the floor down, before I
can actually fit the toilet. I'll be back here in a week, but for you it will feel like a second. We've got the new toilet here now. The floor's been laid so we're ready to put the toilet back
in to the old pipe work, marry all that properly. The first thing we've
got to do is actually fix the toilet to the floor and this one's got the
internal L shaped clamps. Now, a lot of toilets, what you need to do is screw two screws down through the porcelain into the floor. Because we've got these L shaped clamps we've got to do a little bit of measuring to make sure they're in the right place. So, the first thing we
do is get the toilet into the position that
we want it to be in. Push the waste back on. We're very lucky we've
got that flexible waste. Push the toilet back to the wall, exactly to where you want it to be. Then we get a small pencil
and make a tiny mark next to each one of the holes. Disconnect the toilet and the waste from where it needs to be. Next, put the toilet upside down and get a couple of screws just to hold this roughly in place. Alright, grab yourself a tape measure and measure the distance between the two holes to the centres. That's about 12 and a half there. Now we measure between these two to get our centres here, which is 22. So, I'll centre for
the whole toilet itself is around 11 and we measure out 12 and a half, divided by 2
from that centre line there. So that's 6.25 and we know exactly where to drill and attach our two L shaped clamps. Screw in and tie down
each one of your brackets. (drilling sound) Well, I've got the fixings in but before we carry on
just get some silicon, clear or whatever you
can, whatever you've got, and just run that around the
inside of this beast here. With any luck, when you
put the toilet back on you'll definitely not have any leaks. So now we're ready to put the toilet back. Let's just lift that over those two there. Now's probably the best time
to get your waste back on. Push that back into position. An excellent fit, if I
don't mind saying so myself. Now we can put the screws back in and then concentrate on
putting the cistern on and then after that
silicon around the bottom. I've got some small screws here. We just put the screw straight through this protective sheath here, take it up to the toilet
and then screw it in. (drilling sound) We get our nice cap and
pop that over like that. And now we have a look at how we actually fix the toilet system to
the toilet basin itself. Now, it seals around here. This is where the flush comes out and this will seal around the toilet. If you look closely at the screws you'll see they've got
small square end on them and they slot just under there like so and then on the other side of the toilet we have two wingnuts and two
washers to tighten that up and squash this up against the toilet. So let's do that now. So we lay our washer on here. Just like that. Now we have to go through the somewhat agonising process of putting
two on from underneath. You try to set them up
so their all ready to go, just like that, and then
have a look and feel around. Once you've gone through the pain and anguish and utter terror
of what you've just done you can then concentrate on actually fixing the cistern itself
cause it's still wobbly. You should have two screws that
go into the back of the wall and a blob of silicon at the back to make sure it doesn't move. So first things first,
get your silicon gun and run a blob down the back, just to pack it out and
stabilise it when it dries out. Just like this, put two screws, couple of protective
washers around each one, and then just screw them in lightly, they don't need to be to tight, these, they're just steadying the toilet. (drilling sound) So, we've connected
the system to the wall. What we're going to do now
is sort out the water supply and the actual installation of the toilet itself will be finished. Alright, so next up we
got to take this cap off and get this pipe here that's not quite long enough to go into this here. So you're going to need to know how to do a little bit of soldering or you're going to need to know how to use compression fittings. I've done videos on both of those. If you go back to the channel and have a look you should be able to find the information you need there. What I'd always do on this particular bit is when I take this off put a
small isolation valve in here, so that if there's any problems you don't have to turn
the whole system off. You can just isolate the toilet itself, work on it there and then. So as you can see, nicely installed valve, very nice and neat, and also, they've got a nice isolation so any problems they can just turn the
toilet off on its own. I hope you found this
instructional video helpful. If you need anymore
help on the other parts of actually doing a toilet,
go back to our channel where you'll also find
videos on how to instal a push button waste, how
to seal down a toilet, and also, how to fit a toilet seat. If you need anymore help, let
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hope you had a wicked time and I hope you've enjoyed
installing this toilet and I'll see you in the next video. Hold tight.
