Why You NEED To Caulk The Base Of Your Toilet! PROS HATE This DIY!

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[phillech]

Hey I’m a licensed plumber in IL. Anytime I set a toilet I caulk the front and the sides, but I don’t go all the way back. About the front 1/3. Keeps it from rocking and creating leaks and till allows water to escape if the wax ring fails. Best of both worlds

[davedeatherage]

Very helpful! By the way Humidity can cause water to form on the water reservoir tank and drip water on the floor giving a false (leaking) that's happened to me. Thanks again my friend.

[tck]

I just did the caulking and followed your lead. Thirty minutes start to cleanup and I think it came out pretty good. Thank you

[SunofYork]

I like the idea of leaving a gap round the back, but that leaves an exit/entrance for insects again. My suggestion is to lay a couple of plastic straws round the back, leaving them poking out a 1/4 of an inch.... and caulk them in. If the straws are thin enough to exclude bugs, it will still allow water out... The straws on WD 40 cans are nice and thin and strong

[mstiffu]

Thank You. All the info I needed to make a well informed decision. I am old school, I like caulking. I prefer the clear caulk.

[vinylsound]

I love the caulk condom. In red too lol.

[officialshadetreeamerica]

I never heard of doing this until recently. I wish I had known about it before I redid my one bathroom.
Thanks for the tip👍

[derdan]

I have a friend who had a toilet that was not caulked. The tank to toilet seal seeped enough to just run down the toilet and under the base, rotting out the sub floor. He never saw the leak until it was too late because the water never pooled on the tile floor. I always caulk the toilet. The caulk adds a lot of stability to the toilet bowl, preventing movement that causes flange seal leaks.

[bzu]

Thanks for all the details! I decide to caulk my toilet on tile.

[selapauu]

Great video! I am tempted to do this😀Thank you!

[joshuaseverson]

love the channel please keep uploading

[kaboom]

Thanks to you, we are all becoming pro caulkers. As a matter of fact, I globbed the heck out of 4 exhaust vents just today. I packed behind them so there is a seal/adhesion to the vinyl siding.

[deawallace]

Lexel is the greatest product to use for caulking around the toilet. In addition to toddlers missing the toilet, older people with dementia miss the toilet when urinating quite often.

[FKS]

if you have a toilet clog that overflows or if you have kids who piss and miss the bowl, all that liquid goes underneath the toilet and will smell. i caulk all the way but leave a small gap in the back in case there is a leak in the wax ring.

[coppercat]

Serious question: if you leave an inch without caulk in the back, what keeps the bugs from entering under toilet through the uncaulked gap? Am I'm missing something.? Thx

[Aetoms]

Hi, I just moved into a duplex. The basement has 2 bedrooms, the bathroom and part of the basement with the Oil Tank, Hot Water Heater, and Furnace as well as the Washer, Dryer and Deep Freeze. Upon moving in, I noticed that there was 0 ZERO caulking in the None around the toilet, the tub, the baseboards...no caulking anywhere in the bathroom...not even in the shower. I've mentioned this during Inspection and told they don't do that.... same with the kitchen, no caulking. We are now seeing more critters in the basement all rooms, walking up to get to the second set of stairs no caulking in the entry way...so ants literally walk right in. Same with the upstairs. No caulking in the kitchen around the sink or the floor. I'm so happy to have found your YouTube channel. Something I can show next time they come. I've a question for you, I can't remove the rubber plastic on the stairs, but I need to do something with them. They are swept and a few hours later look awful. I was wanting to put down the plastic peel laminate I've seen at the hardware stores but have been on the Internet and Pinterest looking for ideas. It attracts everything, hair, wooly balls, if it's on the floor it's on my stairs, no matter how many times I sweep or use a dryer sheet after cleaning baseboards I can get 3 months before having to wash them...but does nothing for the stairs. I have extreme limited mobility, but I cannot look at the stairs any longer. The entire stair is covered and there are 6 going upstairs to the main level, kitchen, living room and 2 bedrooms. Another 6 going down to the basement. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Also, if you could explain why caulking is needed in the bathroom, I can show it to the Inspector. My oldest has seen silverfish, ants and spiders in his room, my youngest ants and spiders and I've only seen ants in the bathroom. When I was younger my Grandad worked for a Plumbing and Heating company and when my mom and stepdad bought a house, my grandad went right to work fixing everything he saw wrong.... caulking was on the list. Our last place the caulking turned moldy, so I tore it all out and did it myself, there was a window in the shower big enough to crawl out and it had ZERO caulking around the window. It was gross, and I just noticed that the floor in the bathroom has changed colors and I'm guessing mold. Mold is in my youngest's room.... new pillow and was on the floor, he thought it was the rain, but I had my window open and no issues. We lost a lot of our belongings in the old house because of mold and the Rental Company was aware and did nothing. Brand new bed for my daughter when I was working, I bought all new beds for the kids, but a driver who was high rearended me on my way home from work, I can never work again and I'm just in my 40's. They wouldn't replace the bed, even though I had lost bookshelves, dressers, clothes, pictures, stuffed animals from kids being little. I'm beyond stressed and a small town I can't just ask around you can get evicted pretty easy. Sorry for the long post but you're the only other person I have found that talks about caulking. Off to check out the rest of your channel. Thank you for taking the time to read, this is my oldest account. My Gmail keeps getting hacked.... but I'm on YouTube all the time so I'll check back every once in a while. Hope you're having a great summer.

[adriennestanton]

Thank you!! Removed tile and added lv my toilet is way too high and the flange can not be lowered do to the angle. Can I use the calk to level the toilet that is too high??

[HazeyImpact]

We live in a townhouse and every now and then we will randomly smell a sewage type smell around the master bathroom. These townhomes are only a few years old, and we keep things fairly clean. We can’t figure out why this smell will randomly appear and isn’t always around. If it were fumes coming from the plumbing wouldn’t the smell be fairly consistent? I did notice the toilet isn’t caulked. Any ideas?

[bonnieparmer]

The avtige is if you have broken tiles it stop them from getting damaged more

[Urix]

Set the toilet on a few pop cycle sticks and caulk under it. Tighten the bolts down the next day. The wax ring doesn't seal if the toilet rocks.