Install Toilet Over Carpet

For the rest of the bathroom carpeting usually takes a while to dry and that can lead to mold.

Install toilet over carpet.

If you cut the carpet right it will fit exactly around the bottom of the toilet base. Personally i think carpeting in a bathroom especially around a toilet is generally a bad idea. When you set the toilet in place you have to squish the wax ring until the toilet settles to the floor. Although cutting holes in your new carpet may seem like a daunting prospect with a proper template and a sharp knife you will be proud of the finished effect.

Then the toilet is reset so the base covers the cuts around the drain. Don t force the toilet down by tightening the nuts on the toilet bolts that might crack the porcelain base. Install was ring and toilet. 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.

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. The toilet has to be removed and the flooring cut to go around the floor 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. Next section off the room into four quadrants and lay the tiles down starting in the center and working your way out.

Carpet tiles can adhere to concrete plywood or particleboard subfloors. Toilet has to sit on solid floor. To answer your specific question i wouldn t recommend it. 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.

Dry fit the toilet first take sharp utility knife and cut along the base of the bowl cutting all the way through the carpet. 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. Instead sit on the toilet backward with your weight centered over the wax ring. Whether you re laying ceramic vinyl wood or something else on your bathroom floor you ll deal with the toilet in the same way.

Before you can install carpet tiles you must prepare the existing floor.