Toilet Removal Cart

There may come a time when you will need to remove your toilet bowl for some reason or another and it may look like a difficult job but it really isn’t and will will explain to you how to do so.

Step One:

You will want to gather your tools in this first step. You will need a adjustable wrench, small pair of channel lock players, flat head screwdriver and that’s it, yea just those three things really!

Step Two:

Now that you have your tools ready you will want to shut the water supply off to the toilet bowl. To do so look to the left side of the toilet and about six inches from the floor you wil see a valve , and you will want to turn the valve handle clockwise until it stops and then the water will be shut off.

*Side Note: In the plumbing trade these valves are commonly known as “stops” and you can see why.

Step Three:

On each side of the toilet you will see two bolts that are sticking up through the floor, and sometimes these bolts will be covered up by small plastic caps and this is what you will need the flat head screwdriver for. So if your toilet has the caps over the bolts, you will simply just want to easily pry those caps off to access these bolts.

Once you have these caps off and you can see the bolts you will want to take your adjustable wrench and remove these two nuts ( one on each side ).

Step Four:

Right on top of that valve that you shut off is a piece of tubing that leads to the toilet bowl tank bottom and there you will want to loosen that nut until the nut slides down towards the valve.

Step Five:

Open your tank lid and remove all the water in the tank with a small plastic cup and you may also want to remove the water from the actual bowl itself depending on how much is in there.

Step Six:

Now that you have rge bolts removed, water shut off, water removed from the tank and bowl and the water supply line removed from the tank bottom, you can now lift the bowl from the floor and your toilet is now removed.