Fixing toilet pan to floor with pipes underneath - suggestions

[slider09]

Hi all

Need expert tricks of the trade when you need to fix a toilet pan to a chipboard floor where pipes are beneath. The fitting kit is the one with two ‘L’ shaped brackets. The pan fixing holes are right on the edge where the pipes run across the floor.

My two initial thoughts were.

1. bed in ‘no nails’ or similar then drive a screw in at angle to miss the pipes.

2. Again bed in ‘no nails’ then somehow create a clamp (metal strap or a piece of timber) to go across the bracket then bolt the clamp down away from the pipes.

What would you guys do?

Thanks

 

[dilalio]

Stick the pan down with CT1.
It'll never move

 

[slider09]

Stick the pan down with CT1.
It'll never move

Thanks for the suggestion.
Is this available to buy from the usual high street retailers or online only?

 

[mattylad]

If you stick it down then come the time that you have a leak and need to remove it to sort out the waste pipe etc. your gonna be deep ion the doo doo.
Lift the floor and move the pipes!

 

[DavidLewis]

If you stick it down then come the time that you have a leak and need to remove it to sort out the waste pipe etc. your gonna be deep ion the doo doo.

You can cut CT1 with a stanley knife or piano wire, can't you?

 

[lostinthelight]

Thanks for the suggestion.
Is this available to buy from the usual high street retailers or online only?

Usual DIY stores, SF or TS
don't sell it but Travis Perkins do

 

[Madrab]

SF now have their own version, it contains the same material that CT1 uses - it's called OB1

 

[durhamplumber]

Stick the pan down with CT1.
It'll never move

.....Find that hard to believe...weight of an adult applying forces in differing directions..including at right angles .from couple of feet away..the turning moment is enormous ..cannot see any sealant holding.

 

[just pumps]

2 length of 6" 2x2 glued & screwed to the chipboard.

 

[dilalio]

.....Find that hard to believe...weight of an adult applying forces in differing directions..including at right angles .from couple of feet away..the turning moment is enormous ..cannot see any sealant holding.

I've not had any callbacks when I've had to use it over to stick down a pan over ufh. Each to their own eh!

 

[mattylad]

well maybe they thought "bugger I want to remove the pan - but Im not calling that cowboy that stuck it down back"

 

[dilalio]

well maybe they thought "bugger I want to remove the pan - but Im not calling that cowboy that stuck it down back"

Well, if they did... I'd cut it with my Stanley max and just remove it! FFS, it ain't rocket science is it! Jeez mines stuck down with it and been removed for a pan replacement in both bathrooms... Not an issue for me, but perhaps for the less competent

 

[mattylad]

How do you get a stanley knife underneath, to the middle of the bowl?

As I don't think you mentioned just putting a ring of glue around the edge so someone is likely to splodge it all over the place

 

[dilalio]

How do you get a stanley knife underneath, to the middle of the bowl?

As I don't think you mentioned just putting a ring of glue around the edge so someone is likely to splodge it all over the place

Not yet come across a pan with a solid base.

 

[mattylad]

cant say I really looked last time I took mine off the floor