Toilet Bowl Wax Rings and How to Replace Them

Faucetman886 has a great writeup explaining toilet bowl wax rings. Below is an excerpt from his article.

“ New Idea For Replacing a Wax Ring”. Follow the link below to read the entire article.

Faucetman886 says:

I read a lot of forums with questions regarding toilet leaks, smells coming from under toilets and how to properly install a new or reinstall and old toilet. In most cases the offending problem is the wax ring under the toilet. For as many questions there are there are an equal number of answers and versions but I ran across one of the best this weekend. It includes a new idea for utilizing 2 wax rings instead of just one. This is not to be confused with the idea that you can use 2 rings to raise the toilet up from a sunken closet flange but the second wax ring is softened and used to seal around the flange and to create a wax to wax seal for the new ring. This process comes from “DUNBAR PLUMBER” the moderator of one of my favorite discussion forums

http://forum.doityourself.com/plumbing-piping-31/

Here is his process for repacing a wax ring and a picture showing the final result, before placing the toilet, that he provides is above