After this process is complete, the toilet’s fill valve, which connects to your house’s water supply, fills the toilet tank back up with water, readying it for another flush. If you remove the lid and look into your toilet tank, you will notice a white tube floating in...
Water rises up, fills the bowl and spills out onto the bathroom floor. You’re dealing with an overflowing toilet. How do you handle this mess before it floods the bathroom? With over 85 years of combined experience, we’ve helped residents in Chicago with water damage from these types ...
Flapperless flush systems eliminate the flapper entirely. These toilets have a bucket or trough inside the tank. The trough fills with water. When the toilet is flushed, it overturns, sending a cascade of water into the bowl to continue the flushing process. It is a simple system, but for...
We had to remove the water from the tank and bowl, remove the toilet, and fish in the drain. If the obstruction is not close by it's probably lodged at the next trap or bend in the waste line. Or it may be possible to push the obstruction onwards to the next cleanout by using ...
The opening in the rod guide (see sketch at left) that guides the lift rod should be centered over the center of the tank ball. Tank ball type flush valve: the control that sends water from the toilet tank (or building water supply) into the toilet bowl to flush away waste. There ...
Pressure-Assisted –A pressure assisted flushing mechanism has an internally sealed tank that fills with water as air pressure builds up. The force behind this pressure produces water that comes out in a blast and removes waste from the bowl. ...
It holds a plastic pressure vessel of maybe one-third to one-half the ceramic tank"s volume. That pressure tank contains a sealed air bladder. When the tank is filled from the water supply line, the tank fills with water until the air bladder compresses to the point that the tank ...
As the tank fills with water, the float rod or float cup is forced to rise. When the float reaches a set level, the fill valve stops water flow into the tank. If the toilet has a faulty fill valve, the water might continue to rise until it spills into the overflow tube, which is...
it has a sealed pressure tank containing a certain amount of air that gets compressed when it fills with water. This type of toilet usually has a push button on the top of the tank. When you press it, a valve opens and lets the water out. Because the water is under pressure, it pus...
), (h '). In the conventional toilet, after the stool is seen, (h) press down on the scoop (g) to lift the water (f) and drain the water by about 15 L of the entire water tank, which fills the top of the water tank 25 cm through the pipe. After seeing it, you have to ...