Comment on Tried to carefully install the faucet immediately after gluing and caulking the sink

• CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I see what you mean now.

  Even still, our toilets in the US are bolted to the floor and only sealed with caulking along the floor to keep water from pooling underneath and rotting the floor. With our American diets, we rely on the structural rigidity of metal bolts to keep things in place during our massive dumps

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  • Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This came with installation hardware too, but a lot of new toilets don’t even have holes for bolts nowadays. The adhesive is more than sufficient to hold it down to the floor tiles. The silicone caulking I use to tidy it up afterwards just adds to that hold.

    The main reason to not use bolts is to avoid drilling into the floor and puncturing the water proofing membrane or floor heat pipes/cables.

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    • sauce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      When toilets are bolted to the floor you don’t drill into the floor, the bolts are captive in a pre installed toilet flange that was placed before the flooring was installed.

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    • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Modern adhesives are pretty insanely strong.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    you don’t put in a wax ring?

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    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah thats just a seal to keep the poop in but not what holds it down to the floor (mostly).

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    • Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Only on our giant asses.

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    • False@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, we have that

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  • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But it’s also the big reason first time installers struggle. They tighten those bolts too much and crack three porcelain.

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