Install Toilet Over Carpet

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Install toilet over carpet.

Whether you re laying ceramic vinyl wood or something else on your bathroom floor you ll deal with the toilet in the same way. Remove any tack strip that is in your way. To install carpet tile draw the sections that you want to carpet on a piece of paper and arrange the tiles in a design or style that you like before you get started laying down the tiles. For the rest of the bathroom carpeting usually takes a while to dry and that can lead to mold.

Toilet has to sit on solid floor. Personally i think carpeting in a bathroom especially around a toilet is generally a bad idea. To answer your specific question i wouldn t recommend it. Then the toilet is reset so the base covers the cuts around the drain.

This method will give you a cleaner result and the toilet itself will hide any ragged edges that you may have cut from the tiles. Carpet tiles can adhere to concrete plywood or particleboard subfloors. Instead sit on the toilet backward with your weight centered over the wax ring. When you set the toilet in place you have to squish the wax ring until the toilet settles to the floor.

Too many drips and splashes that get absorbed by the carpet. Don t force the toilet down by tightening the nuts on the toilet bolts that might crack the porcelain base. Next section off the room into four quadrants and lay the tiles down starting in the center and working your way out. Before you can install carpet tiles you must prepare the existing floor.

However when laying a carpet in the bathroom the toilet must not sit on the carpet the carpet must be cut to fit neatly around the base of the toilet. In this video i show how to cut vinyl plank flooring around a toilet vinyl plank flooring is the going thing at the moment so jump on the trend and use these. If you cut the carpet right it will fit exactly around the bottom of the toilet base. Take the time to remove the toilet so that the tiles extend past the outline of where the toilet was and then reinstall the toilet over the tops of the tiles.

Dry fit the toilet first take sharp utility knife and cut along the base of the bowl cutting all the way through the carpet.