This problem is related to the toilet flapper and the toilet flush valve. The toilet flapper raises when the toilet is flushed. After the water has drained into the bowl, the flapper closes. It seals against the rim of the flush valve. The seal between the flush valve and the flapper is...
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a damaged gasket under the flush valve. This means the tank will have to be separated from the bowl in order to get to the connections. If you only have one bathroom and must use the toilet during the night, flush the toilet with a bucket of water ...
If your toilet is leaking at its base only after you flush, the water is coming from the toilet bowl itself. Besides causing potential damage to your bathroom tile andsubfloor, this type of leak is unsanitary. To put it bluntly: the leakage consists of water mixed with urine and/or feces...
Take off the bolt.On the bottom of the toilet tank is a bolt designed for the flush valve. Use a wrench to loosen it up and take it off with your fingers. Once the bolt is removed you can take out the old overflow pipe. Just like with the flapper, you could take it with you to...
Leak from the fill valve refill tube:If the leak appears to be coming from the back, near the top of the tank, then check to make sure the refill tube has not come loose from the overflow tube on the flush valve. Cracks in the tank:Unfortunately, there's no reliable way to repair ...
The center of the flapper has a tendency to drop, given its large surface area and combine that with the weight of the water imposing down across the opening of that flush valve, the flapper eventually fails. The texture of this flapper becomes very eroded, swelled up and defective in short...
between the toilet and drain opening isn't making a complete seal, and water spills out during every flush. The water often seeps under the floor covering, so you can't see it, and rots the subfloor. The floor becomes mushy, the toilet starts rocking and you can usually smell sewer ...
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