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.

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. A flange extender is easy to install it. A small curve around the toilet base will be left untiled as the square tiles will not meet the shape of the flange.

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. When tiling a bathroom mark out your desired grid pattern on the floor and lay tile over the unobstructed areas first. Then i leave a gap of 1 4 or so to the rest of the flooring that will be. 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.

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. A toilet drain flange can sit above or below the finished floor level. Tile the areas away from the toilet flange first. As for the toilet you will want to get the flange to floor level.