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Tiling Wooden Floors
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Removing/replacing the toilet is really a plumbers job, unless you feel confident. There are probably council by-laws regarding this, if you take any notice of them. :-)
Due to an accident, I've just fitted a new toilet and it's definitely within the realm of a DIYer. Having said that, I'm a serial DIYer so I might think that a job is easier than it seems to many people.
The job can be done in three stages.
First, you need to isolate the water supply. Look on the water supply pipe to the cistern. On recently fitted toilets there should be a valve which allows you to turn off the water supply to the toilet. It's silver, about 50mm long and has a screwhead to turn off the water. When the slot on the screwhead is at right angles to the pipe the water is off. If you don't have one of these then you'll need to turn it off at the mains stopcock.
Second, flush the toilet to empty the cistern, then look at how the cistern is connected to the toilet.
Most new cisterns are connected by wingnuts straight onto the toilet itself. Undo these, then undo the screws holding the cistern to the wall. You should now be able to lift the cistern free.
Third, disconnect the toilet from the waste pipe. Most toilet wastes are push in fittings nowadays and simply pull out from the soil pipe. There should be two screws holding the pan to the floor, undo these and pull the toilet free.
Stuff the waste pipe with an old cloth and tile away.
Replacement is a direct reversal of this procedure.
As to the new boards, I know B&Q recommend 12mm plywood to be laid before you tile. Although I wouldn't have thought that thickness was necessary, that's up to you but I would use 6mm just for a better surface, surely there can't be that much flexing in a room the size of a bathroom.
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