Thread: Toilet Flanges in Thailand

when you find a place that sells the flanges and wax ring please post it? Thanks

awesome thread, I am looking to change my toilet unit myself and need to know how to do that,

Installing a Toilet - How to Install a Toilet

There is a link about installing a new toilet..

^ hopefully that would be compatible with Thailand style of installation of toilets by the locals

No it isn't, Thai style is to set the bowl on a ring of grout layed on a tile floor and then clean up what is outside the edge of the bowl and shit dumps down on the floor and most of it finds its way down the drain,
With the correct way the flange is inside the drain pipe and sealed to the floor with a sealant and held with screws, then the bowl has the Bees wax ring on the snout under the bowl and then mounted over the bolts and then the bolts just tight enough to stop the bowl from rocking.
There is no leakage from the bowl to the floor.

Stop worrying about Shitters .

Just open your eyes the place is full of wonderfull Flanges .

Originally Posted by blackgang

the flange is inside the drain pipe and sealed to the floor with a sealant and held with screws, then the bowl has the Bees wax ring on the snout under the bowl and then mounted over the bolts and then the bolts just tight enough to stop the bowl from rocking.

This is how I remember doing it a couple of years ago. In Thailand
The flange fastened with 4 screws to the floor and wax sealant rings on both sides of the flange.
Bowl fastened with expander bolts in the floor, one on each side.
And a thick string of silicon between bowl and floor before tightening the two bolts.

After starting this thread around 2 years ago , I have since installed said toilet less flange and done in the typical Thai style.

Albeit incorrect.

Originally Posted by BobbyTits

Are these not needed in Thailand ?




Seems every damm toilet here is just lined up over a tiled hole and then sealed around the outside of the bowl gluing it in place.

WTF ???

Now if you will notice the keyhole shaped slots on each side of the flange, these are for the bowl hold down bolts and the wax ring goes on the nub that stickes out of the bottom of the bowl and goes into that dished out cavity where the rag is that keep the sewer gas from getting in the bathroom while the bowl is off.
Then when the bolts are tightened they compress the wax ring and forms the water tight seal between bowl and flange.

Originally Posted by blackgang

Originally Posted by BobbyTits

Are these not needed in Thailand ?




Seems every damm toilet here is just lined up over a tiled hole and then sealed around the outside of the bowl gluing it in place.

WTF ???

Now if you will notice the keyhole shaped slots on each side of the flange, these are for the bowl hold down bolts and the wax ring goes on the nub that stickes out of the bottom of the bowl and goes into that dished out cavity where the rag is that keep the sewer gas from getting in the bathroom while the bowl is off.
Then when the bolts are tightened they compress the wax ring and forms the water tight seal between bowl and flange.

Yeah , it is fucking simple and it is how the toilets are designed to be mounted.

Guess logic does not even apply to toilets here in Thailand.

HINO, I was there in 68 too,,
But if you will check with American standard Dealers they do sell a toilet kit with shitter, tank and floor flange all in the box.
I bought one mainly to get the flange and then I bought a flange from another dealer in another town that had sold the toilet but he or the guy that bought it knew what the flange was for so he kept it and I bought it and explained to him what it was for, that was as succesful as teaching my Thai Dog to play the fucking Trumpet.

Thanks blackgang

I will give the type I found a shot (if I can find them) as I think it may be easier to "teach" them to use this than the actual flanges.

Originally Posted by BobbyTits

Originally Posted by dirtydog

So the question has to be asked, why are these flanges needed in Thailand? Explain their use fully.

The flange and a wax seal allows you to place and secure the toilet bowl directly on top of the drainage pipe underneath.

This provides an actual seal between the bowl and floor as opposed to just placing the bowl over the exposed pipe and letting the shit and piss fly all around underneath, regardless of just cementing the bowl in place.

Absolutely correct! and that's why most of the toilets in this shithole (pardon the pun) don't flush properly..........Like mine for example..

first off it doesn't provide for a smooth transition from toilet to pipe causing constant back up because of the crap (literally) and toilet paper hanging up and getting stuck. Before you say it, of course that doesn't happen in all cases, but it does happen when it shouldn't..

Secondly that seal that is created makes the toilet flush without allowing for an air gap that impairs the smooth flow of the vacuum created by the downward motion of the flushing current which makes the toilet work efficiently. The better it flows the less water used too as you don't need as much pressure to force the contents down because a properly flowing toilet also creates a vacuum. it pushes and pulls through the flow developed..

The gap between the meshing of the 2 interferes with that flow and vacuum like putting a spoon in a pitcher of water and spinning it to make it swirl then moving the spoon into the center and stopping it again, the vortex is disrupted and the flow is no longer cohesive.. I.E. Less efficient..

Finally the toilet bowl is very likely to be destroyed if you have to remove it for any reason if it is cemented in instead of bolted down..Not to mention retiling your floor as it is supposed to be bolted on top of the tile not surrounded by tile and cement..

Better hope that you don't get a blockage directly underneath it from the gap collecting waste because then you might need to buy a new bowl too (like my neighbor had to do on a house that is only 2 years old).. most designs are too tight to get a snake through to clean out from up top.