Those low-flow toilets and older models can really be a pain. This week, on You Got This!, we discuss how to handle that “chronic clogger.” If you’ve got a toilet that seems to always get clogged, you’ve got a chronic clogger. No one has time or patience to plunge the same toilet 4 times a day so it’s important to get to the root of the problem. There are a few common issues that cause […]
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The porcelain throne, the theme of this week. Andrew and Rosalie answer important questions involving the toilet, like why it keeps running and if chemical drain cleaners are safe to use. We’ve all had the experience of flushing a toilet and noticing that it won’t stop running after the flush cycle. According to Andrew, this is likely because the flapper needs to be replaced. He recommends removing the flapper and replacing it with another one.
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Your plumber Paul was very professional. He took the time to educate us on the workings of our “Particular” type of toilet. THANK YOU PAUL!!! We are very grateful.
Josefina, Grass Valley, CA
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There are several different types of toilets, but the most common type is the “flush toilet”. A flush toilet can be defined as “a toilet that eliminates its waste by a flush of water”. The household toilet is just another working necessity in a house, and not thought about often… until it doesn’t work. Then, all you can think about is how to fix it. In order to be able to work on a toilet, and get it in working order again, you’ll need to understand how it works.
When you push the handle, it’s attached on the inside of the tank to a lever, in turn, raises a rod or chain. When the rod or chain rises up, it lifts up a round part that is called a “flapper” or “flush ball”. The purpose of the flapper is twofold: it covers the round hole (the flush valve valve) in the bottom of the toilet tank to keep the water from flowing out of the tank. It’s other purpose, when the toilet is flushed, is to rise up and allow a rush of water to be drawn from the toilet tank into the toilet bowl. The water rushes into the bowl through the hole in its middle, as well as from small holes that encircle the underside of the toilet bowl rim. Here’s a tip for you: flappers are usually made of a pliable rubber, and they are available in many different sizes. If the flapper in your toilet bowl malfunctions, simply remove it from its hinges and replace it with a new, same sized one.
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The federal government decided that after 1994 toilets shouldn’t use any more than 1.6 gallons of water per flush. Manufacturers had to comply, but by most accounts their early efforts were a flop.
That was a decade and a half ago. The redesigned low-flow models that followed work as well or better than older models that used as much as 7 gallons of water per flush. There is, in fact, a joint U.S.-Canadian evaluation program called Maximum Performance (or MaP) that uses soybean paste encased in latex to see just how well these low-flow toilets work. And most of them work very well. Test results are easily accessible on the Internet.
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