Installing Toilet In Basement Floor

Installing a new bathroom in a basement can be a major undertaking.

Installing toilet in basement floor. An upflushing unit makes the job much easier. This old house plumbing and heating expert richard trethewey shows how to outfit a bathroom that s at basement level. See below for a shopping list and tool.

First locate the main stack the large 3 or 4 in. Connect the macerator unit to an existing vent stack. But it may run at an angle rather than straight out to the street.

Then you screw the toilet bowl to the floor with the supplied lag screws plug in the macerator and you re done. The discharge pipe can feed into a piping system and connect. However even a.

From there the pipe runs under the floor and out to the city sewage system under the street. Installing a tile floor in all or part of your basement lets you have some fun with design while still quickly covering up existing concrete floors. Let s go over the basics how to install a toilet in a basement with a rough in pipe.

The unit will connect to the back of the. How to install a toilet on an unlevel floor. If at all possible have a buddy there with you to help.

Toilet s are extremely heavy and if the porcelain breaks that s a very expensive blunder. Diameter vertical pipe that runs into the basement floor. Place the macerator unit so it will be behind the toilet s location.