WHAT THE CRAPper!

mbalbritton

mbalbritton

#@$%!
Joined
Mar 22, 2005
Location
Lakeland, FL
Had a leak going on with a toilet in the house. Replaced the flapper twice, replaced the guts, then replaced the entire toilet. All this to no avail.

So with a new toilet, new guts, I decided to go with a new fandangled filler valve deal. It still leaks!!!!!

How the hell can I have this much issue? I even went outside of Montmartre and followed the installation instructions to the T!
 
Are you on a city/town water system?
Check your water pressure.

They recently added some new water service areas near me, and increased the pressure to push out to those areas. The town sent letters out and even paid for new pressure regulators if you had it done at a specific time and filed paperwork etc..

BUT that said, i think only 20% of my neighbors got it... The rest have leaky toilets :flipoff2:
 
Like Mike said. Toilets are a fairly simple device. ANYTHING that can keep the valve from closing all the way will make it run. If water keeps coming into the tank, it will spill into the overflow tube and go into the bowl. I have seen grit, teflon tape, other unexplained debris keep a valve open. The pressure can push the valve open also.
 
Old fassion floating metal ball. When it raises, it cuts the flow off. Bend it down, and it will use less water, and has more pressure to cut the flow off.
 
New one probably doesn't have the floating ball, they've gone to a ring float around the fluid master.
 
We had pressure issues w town water when we rented on a downhill, dead end. I enjoyed the high pressure, shooting squirrels w the pistolgrip waterhose sprayer nozzell set to jet. I could knock them off the side of the tree or off branches 25' in the air!! toilets needed attention more than normal. One day a clamp let go @ the waterheater in a closet and caused a big mess in a hurry. Thank goodness I was home to shut off the water. I finally installed the pressure regulator right behind the meter and all was well after that. I found out the pressure was going way up sometimes because of new construction/ testing etc. nearby and maybe some bad engineering also.
 
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