Korky wax free toilet seal review

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2020

My wax ring failed and was leaking from the base of the toilet. After purchasing a similar product for another toilet, I wondered why does everyone not use these? Why the same antiquated wax ring that's been around 100 years? It took me three tries to set the toilet down on the mark. With wax, that would have been 2 trashed rings. Three years later and another toilet has the same problem, only now the wonderful new technology I used in the repair has shown its weaknesses. Those rings are beginning to fail after 3 months. More time researching lead me to this Korky model. The design is completely different, and the materials used "should" not suffer the same failure, at least not any time soon. I would expect 10 years before this begins to show signs of breakdown. I would not expect failure for perhaps another 10 years. Now we're into wax territory and I can still reposition the toilet if needed when seating it.
Now that we have the replacement parts, it's time to get our hands dirty and dig our fingers into this nasty job. Step one, rubber gloves! Step two, pull the toilet. The water is off, the tank is drained. The fill line is disconnected, and the flange nuts have been removed. I have plastic bags down. Now a little lift here, make that a little lift there. Perhaps if I try to rock it side to side a little. Well, it seems either the home builder or a previous owner glued this toilet down. Perhaps a lever here, and something to act as a fulcrum there and I can pry... That's obviously not gonna work. Maybe I can dig a little under... Maybe if I... Okay, I have another idea. A nice heavy bead of caulk completely around the base. DONE! The thinking here is, even if the cavity under the toilet were to fill with water, there is only one place for it to go, down the drain. A leak test says this toilet is sealed. Let's try one more trick, I placed a space heater blowing on the toilet for about 15 minutes. The porcelain is hot. By now the wax should have melted, flowed down the neck of the toilet, and pooled around the flange, hopefully creating a new seal. The next day I noticed the sewer smell is gone. The room is fresh and clean. The "facilities" have been used multiple times daily for months now, and not a drop has leaked. The Korky is still in its retail packaging on a closet shelf.

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2017

My installation is replacing a failed wax ring for a toilet setting on a tile floor. The flange is cast iron and sits about 1/4" below the tile floor. This toilet develops a slight rock, even when caulked. That combined with routine plunging of the toilet results in a life expectancy of 3-4 years for wax rings. So, this was not my first experience with this job or this toilet. After removing the toiled and the old wax ring I dried the area under and around the flange with a hair drier to reduce potential rusting of the flange.

Per the instructions for a flange located below the floor, I installed the full set of foam seals (layers are removed when the flange is flush with or above the floor). Set the toilet on the new seal and secured it to the floor using the enclosed replacement closet bolts and hardware. I snugged the nuts tight enough to seat the seal, but left them loose enough to apply a thin bead of caulk between the toilet and the tile. Connected the water line and flushed the toilet four to five times to check for leaks, there were none. Applied a bead of caulk and snugged up the nuts enough to prevent the toilet from rocking, while avoiding overtightening. For me, installation was straight forward and there were no surprises. If you have not done this job before, there are plenty of videos on the web that will guide you through the process. The manufacture even has a video on installing this product. The instructions are clear, I am familiar with job, so I did not bother with the video.

Regarding seal quality, there were no apparent manufacturing defects and build quality appeared good. Product is Made in the USA.. We have two toilets in the house. Baring any unexpected problems with the current product, I will use the same product when replacing the remaining wax seal. If I do have problems with the product in the future, I will update this review.

Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2019

I never thought I'd be writing a review of a toilet seat ring. And yet, here I am. I recently replaced an American Standard toilet in my house with an American Standard Champion toilet (you know, the one which will flush a bucket of golf balls without clogging) because our son almost invariably clogs a typical toilet. But when I removed the existing toilet, I immediately noticed the toilet seat in the floor wasn't square with the floor tiles. Not even a little bit. I took one look at the included wax ring, thought "nah", and tossed it aside. I opened the package of this waxless ring, and went to work. This ring is thoughtfully designed to accommodate seat and toilet combinations of varying dimensions and heights by being adjustable. You can remove rings of the dense foam, which I did have to do as my toilet ring is higher on one side than it is the other (Korky makes it easy- they're precut sections stacked one atop each other). But the beauty is, the silicone "funnel" and seal remains intact. Ingenious! Now our new toilet sits perfectly on the floor, with NO wobbling or (more importantly) leaking, and I don't have to worry about the stupid wax seal not sealing properly. I'm so impressed with this waxless seal that I bought another, to replace the wax seal in the other bathroom!

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