Well, when you flush your toilet, the trip lever lifts the flapper on the flush valve, allowing the water in the tank to flow into the bowl and down the trap to the sewage line. Once the tank is empty, the flapper again seals off the flush valve outlet and the tank refills. While ...
When your toilet keeps running water or is constantly running, we must first find out if you have a fill valve issue or a flapper/flush valve issue. Step 1 –If you have shut off the water supply line, then turn on water and look inside the tank. Determine if the water level is ...
If you've checked the obvious areas and your bathroom toilet plumbing keeps leaking water anyway, there's a possibility that your fill valve has worn out and can no longer stop water from coming into the tank. Adjusting the float or flapper won’t help you here. If this is the cause, ...
The seal created by the flapper keeps the water in the tank until you’re ready to flush the toilet. If the flapper has a crack or a poor seal, water will slowly leak out of the tank and into the bowl. Then when you flush the toilet, there is less water. Older toilets may have ...
Try pushing gently down on the flapper valve and wiggling it side to side - sometimes this will clean a little debris off of the valve itself or off of the valve seat, and the leak will stop. For a while. Maybe. Well sometimes. Try cleaning the flapper valve (shown below): un-hook...
Water Keeps Running Into the Toilet Bowl When you flush the toilet it works fine. However, the tank does not refill. The water keeps running and running into the bowl. This condition happens when the toilet flapper does not close after the tank has emptied during the flush. One common solu...
Before you panic, lift off the tank lid to see if there are any apparent issues. Some things to look for include obstructions that are preventing the flapper valve from closing all the way. This part is located at the bottom of the tank. See if the chain is tangled and therefore ...