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How to Repair a Toilet : Wax Ring Maintenance for Toilet

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Uploaded by on Oct 1, 2008

Remove excess wax from toilet wax ring. Learn how to repair a toilet in these free bathroom repair videos from a hardware expert.

Expert: Blair Gilbert
Bio: Blair Gilbert runs Gilberts Pro Hardware Inc. in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. He has been writing the column Ask Mr. Hardware for the "Grosse Pointe News" since 1996.
Filmmaker: Travis Waack

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  • Thanks for the vid! I will now replace mine and not wait another 2 months for the friggin slum lord to do it for me!! : )

  • great demo ---thanks. But, I have to say guys never remember to clean that black ring before they put the toilet back---ohhhhh men!!!

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  • I was always told to twist the toilet a little but not to rock it back and forth. WHY WHY.

  • OMG you didn't even scrub that oval of petrified PEE!!!

  • This helped... Thank you very much for the post!

  • Seems like there should have been a pair of closet bolts sticking out of the flange before he set the toilet onto the wax ring. Now there's nothing to tighten the toilet down with. Or maybe there are brass nuts in the flange, and he's going to screw a bolt in? It's hard to see for sure. Maybe it's explained in a separate video.

  • Good video, thanks for posting

  • I hope you remove the black ring from the floor under the toilet in another video.. ;)

    My OCD is acting up..;)

  • Ideally it's supposed to be 80 degrees fahrenheit in the room so that the wax flows when you crush it. I use a heater and sometime also a heat gun to warm the area much more than the wax ring itself.

  • hey! thats what i was thinking too, but im a dude..? .great post.

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