Provided is an improved toilet seal that utilizes redundant and adaptable physical barriers to facilitate installation and improve sealing performance at the junction between a toilet base and floor.
1. An improved toilet seal comprising:
cylindrical sleeve body, the cylindrical sleeve body having a distal end and a proximal end, the distal end adapted to being inserted into a soil pipe, the proximal end having a first stage radially extending from the distal end, the first stage having an inner surface and an outer surface;
a first gasket disposed onto the inner surface of the first stage, the gasket having a cross section that forms an angle of at least 90 degrees;
a second stage radially extending from the outer surface of the first stage, the second stage having a top surface;
a second gasket disposed onto the top surface of the second stage, the second gasket being self-adhesive, the second gasket adapted to be sealably bond to a lower surface of a toilet.
2. A method of installing an improved toilet seal between a soil pipe and a toilet, the method comprising:
producing an improved toilet seal, the improved toilet seal comprising a cylindrical sleeve body, the cylindrical sleeve body having a distal end and a proximal end, the distal end adapted to being inserted into a soil pipe, the proximal end having a first stage radially extending from the distal end, the first stage having an inner surface and an outer surface, a first gasket disposed onto the inner surface of the first stage, the gasket having a cross section that forms an angle of at least 90 degrees, a second stage radially extending from the outer surface of the first stage, the second stage having a top surface; a second gasket disposed onto the top surface of the second stage, the second gasket being self-adhesive, the second gasket adapted to be sealably bond to a lower surface of the toilet;
inserting the distal end of the cylindrical sleeve into the soil pipe until the floor abuts the first stage;
placing an outlet of the toilet onto the first gasket forming an enclosed volume from the soil pipe into the toilet; and
sealably affixing the second gasket to the lower surface of the toilet forming an enclosed volume around the toilet outlet.