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[quote=Anonymous]Why are you changing the wax ring?  It is usually because you have some water leaking  from underneath the toilet.  This happens because the toilet was not well secured to the ground and was moving around.   Be ready to check for any water damage around the pipe.

A couple of tips -

1) drain the toilet as much as possible.  The toilet itself is not that heavy, but can be tough to move if it has a lot of water inside.

2) have a putty knife ready to scrape up the old ring.

3) when you remove toilet, be careful with the metal bolts that hold the toilet to the toilet flange.  The bolts can fall down under floor, and you really, really, don't want to have to reach into the pipe to pull them out if they fall in  (yuck!).  It is easy to buy replacement bolts, but I find they sometimes don't fit well in the older flanges.

4) I like the wax-less rings because they are easy to install by yourself - you can tip the toilet onto the ring, but the wax ones really work best and are cheaper.  Just note that you have to pickup the toilet and lower it straight down on the wax ring.  If you tip the toilet during installation and squish one side of the wax ring, it will leak, so you will need to get another wax ring

5) when you are tightening the nuts to attach the toilet to the flange, you need tighten firmly but evenly on both sides (e.g., alternate turning the nuts on each side).  Don't go overboard or you will crack the toilet base[/quote]

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