Go to Walmart, they sell a flapper and seat that will take you very little time to put in. the flapper is easy to figure out, the seat has an adhesive or plummers puty and is easily installed. There is no need to remove and replace all the hardware in one.
Toilet flapper help please
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Go to Walmart, they sell a flapper and seat that will take you very little time to put in. the flapper is easy to figure out, the seat has an adhesive or plummers puty and is easily installed. There is no need to remove and replace all the hardware in one.
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That's the problem. Being in the Plumbing Business for yrs. I love those tablets. Makes a good amount of work for me rebuilding toilets
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September was 6 years we've been in this house and I've replace the toilet flappers in both toilets. We are on city water, very hard water, and do no use in tank chemicals, but the last flapper I replaced simply had one of the "ears?" or whatever you call it dissolved. I'd never seen that before.
Many toilets now have proprietary parts, so "standard" replacement parts are not all the same anymore.
As everyone has said, in tank chlorine additives are almost always the cause of premature flapper failure.
A good quality flapper is the Fluidmaster, (available just about everywhere). They also make a flusher fixer kit for toilets where cycling on and off is a problem, which includes a new stainless steel seat. I have installed many of these and they always work well.
Plumbing Supply | Flush Toilet | Toilet Flappers - Fluidmaster
As everyone has said, in tank chlorine additives are almost always the cause of premature flapper failure.
A good quality flapper is the Fluidmaster, (available just about everywhere). They also make a flusher fixer kit for toilets where cycling on and off is a problem, which includes a new stainless steel seat. I have installed many of these and they always work well.
Plumbing Supply | Flush Toilet | Toilet Flappers - Fluidmaster
once my girlfriend decided to use pool tablets in the tank of all of the toilets in the house. Every bathroom smelled like a swimming pool. I thought she was cleaning with bleach or something and then the toilets started to go one after the other. I was fixing toilets every weekend and then I found a remnant of one of those tablets in the tank.
LUUUUCYY!:mur:
("I love Lucy" reference.....for those of us who are over the hill...Ricky Ricardo?)
She doesn't do that anymore. :dance1:
you left off the '".... you have some 'splaining to do!"
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RobertBrown said:once my girlfriend decided to use pool tablets in the tank of all of the toilets in the house. Every bathroom smelled like a swimming pool. I thought she was cleaning with bleach or something and then the toilets started to go one after the other. I was fixing toilets every weekend and then I found a remnant of one of those tablets in the tank.
LUUUUCYY!
("I love Lucy" reference.....for those of us who are over the hill...Ricky Ricardo?)
She doesn't do that anymore. :dance1:
My wife had the same bright idea for the toilet at the cottage. I found out it didn't work when I heard the water pump not shutting off. Of course by then, the 3000 gallon water tank was empty. Luckily the pump was ok. Didn't well for the flapper or the metal parts. Flapper looked like a scallop.
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OK, bought a new flapper and got it installed yesterday and is suppose to be adjustable to save water, but that doesnt seem to make a difference no matter where the setting is. [:/]
The problem is that the new one closes too slowly (IE - the entire tank empties on a single flush). It wont close until the water level gets to the flapper level. (which is about 3 gal of water)
I have tried adjusting the chain thinking if it didnt come up so far it would close quicker - but that didnt help. I also noticed it had a hole in the lower flapper part that seems to fill with water as it flushes.. I even tried to make that hole bigger so it would fill quicker - once again, that didnt help either..
How do I make the flapper close quicker?
The flapper I replaced was adjusted so i it only used 1/3 to 1/2 of a tank of water per flush.. BUT it only lasted a year, so I was looking for something else to try.
Brian
The problem is that the new one closes too slowly (IE - the entire tank empties on a single flush). It wont close until the water level gets to the flapper level. (which is about 3 gal of water)
I have tried adjusting the chain thinking if it didnt come up so far it would close quicker - but that didnt help. I also noticed it had a hole in the lower flapper part that seems to fill with water as it flushes.. I even tried to make that hole bigger so it would fill quicker - once again, that didnt help either..
How do I make the flapper close quicker?
The flapper I replaced was adjusted so i it only used 1/3 to 1/2 of a tank of water per flush.. BUT it only lasted a year, so I was looking for something else to try.
Brian
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Sounds like you've got the clapper confused with the fill valve. On every toilet I know of the fill valve determines the amount of water in the tank, which is the amount of water that flushes.
Unless I missed something..... :scratchchin:
Unless I missed something..... :scratchchin:
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I agree...I think he means the float. That's about the only thing that can be "adjusted" (by bending the rod).
NOPE i am not confused about anything, this flapper is allegedly adjustable to control the amount of water released from the tank during a flush..
Our other toilets do NOT use a full tank of water per flush.. they only used about 1/2 to 1/3 of the tank per flush - which still gives a very adequate flush.. From a quick search it appears that the average toilet tank holds 2 to 3 gallons of water.
here is a fluidmaster - which what was just removed and only used about 1/3 tank per flush - but it didnt last long so I was looking for something that would better durability.. BUT I have the same flapper in another toilet and it also uses a full tank for each flush, and I could never get it adjusted correctly
Shop Fluidmaster Adjustable Toilet Flapper Valve at Lowes.com
On another forum they recommended adjusting the water level lower (like 1/2 a tank) - BUT it came from the factory not using a full tank per flush so I am hoping to achieve that again..
Brian