Method for setting toilet bowls

A method for installation without using tools of a pre-existing toilet bowl base having at least one pre-existing color matched decorative cover cap and securing the pre-existing toilet bowl base to a soil pipe flange of uncertain height above a floor surface comprising:

• placing a retaining clamp that is an eccentric c-shaped resilient structure with a prethreaded orifice in alignment with an aperture in the soil pipe flange:
• inserting a lower end of a prethreaded mounting stud, having a headless upper end, into the retainer clamp and through the aperture by manually threading without tools said stud into the prethreaded orifice;
• adjusting the prethreaded mounting stud to an appropriate height both to prevent interference with the pre-existing decorative cover cap and to compensate for uncertain height of the soil pipe flange above the floor surface;
• placing a waxed sealing ring on the soil pipe flange to be compressed between said flange and the pre-existing toilet bowl base;
• orienting the pre-existing base so that at least one opening therein is in alignment with a mounting stud;
• lowering said base such that the mounting stud penetrates the opening in said base;
• fastening the pre-existing toilet bowl base to the soil pipe flange using a wing nut which is manually threaded without tools down on the mounting stud and hand tightened to avoid axial pressure that would crack the pre-existing toilet bowl base, and in a manner by which later removability and resuability of the mounting stud is assured;
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• placing the pre-existing decorative cover cap over the wing nut and upper end of the mounting stud to hide the same from view, to protect the same from condensation and other corrosive agents and to hide from view wax that may ooze through the opening in the toilet base from the wax ring compressed between the toilet bowl base and soil pipe flange.