Installing Flooring Around Toilet Flange

The installation process is the same for a tile floor a hardwood or carpeted bathroom floor.

Installing flooring around toilet flange.

A small curve around the toilet base will be left untiled as the square tiles will not meet the shape of the flange. As for the toilet you will want to get the flange to floor level. Then i leave a gap of 1 4 or so to the rest of the flooring that will be. 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.

A toilet drain flange can sit above or below the finished floor level. 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. 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.

Tile the areas away from the toilet flange first. 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. When tiling a bathroom mark out your desired grid pattern on the floor and lay tile over the unobstructed areas first. 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.