New toilet - what to bed onto?

[F]

A new toilet is to go on top of ceramic tiles. What do I put between them?

Silicone?

The previous one had mortar between it and the concrete floor.

TIA.

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

Silicone will do nicley,as its only to form a barrier should you miss?

[sm_jamieson]

Ceramic pan on ceramic tiles, might "grind" a little, since the bottom of the pan is rarely completely flat, so the bedding is not just a protection against the poorly aiming man. Simon.

[Andrew Gabriel]

Saw a plumber doing a pan in the Gents at work. He stood it on 4 or 5 tile spacers (2mm ones probably) and then siliconed around the base, using enough silicone that it would have gone right through the 2mm gap and built up on the other side. I didn't see if he pulled out the spacers afterwards or cut them off.

[F]

Looks like a good idea - and I'll be removing the spacers.

Thanks.

[Mathew Newton]

Or very[1] poor aiming woman.

Mathew

[1] aka 'piss poor' ;-)

[robgraham]

Worth bearing in mind - one point worth making is that the silicon is enough that you don't need to screw the pan down as well.

Rob

[The Natural Philosopher]

After reading the last few posts some weeks ago, that is exactly what I did.

Propped it up squirted silicone under it and more down the screw holes, removed props and cleaned up excess..

Seems fine to me...

[NotMe]

I am about to install a WC onto a smooth concrete floor so this silicone method sounds good. However ther seem to be loads of 'types' of silicone (builder's, sanitary, high modulus, low modulus, general purpose, etc) so which type do you recommend?

[Doctor Drivel]

A top poster.

[NotMe]

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember F saying something like:

Or expanding foam.

[Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)]

Is WHAT a sin? You forgot to provide any trimmed context beofore your comment. Oh yes and you left a ream of untrimmed irrelevance trailing in its wake.