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wrote:
The problem maybe to do with the floor not being
right up against the bottom of the bowl.

Over time and use the same thing MAY happen.

Make sure the floor is nice and level. If there is
any wiggle room, shim it and get it right.

In the case that I had in my home, I shimmed it, screwed
it down CAREFULLY and used the same sanded grout
(that I used on the floor) to squeeze around the bottom of the bowl.
Let it dry for a few days and its rock solid!

It'll be a slight pain in the ass to remove down the road, but
with the way its installed I should never have to.

Tom

When I had the needed parts of a steel toilet flange set in a concrete
floor rust out I did this:

Drilled two 1/2" holes about 2-1/2" deep into the concrete at the exact
spots where the hold downs should go. (Made a scrap wood template marked
through the toilet bowl's base holes and used it to locate the holes on
the floor.)

Cut a couple of pieces of 5/16"-18 allthread to the appropriate length
and secured them into the holes with Rockite (Expanding cement). I used
the wood template to keep them located while the Rockite cured.

Put on a new wax ring and lowered the toilet over the protruding studs.
Secured it carefully with nuts and washers using anti-sieze on the
threads and shimmed and grouted it as described above by Tom.

Solid as a rock ever since.

Jeff

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