You hear that noise? If it were a babbling brook, you'd love it, but it's a running toilet, which means you're losing sleep, you're losing money, and you're wasting water. It can probably be fixed pretty easily, and we'll show you how.
To learn how to fix the toilet, it would probably be good to know just how it operates. So we're going to let you take a look inside the tank so that you can see what happens. First of all, when you trip this lever up here, it raises up the little stopper in the bottom. That's called a flapper. That lets the water in the tank run out.
This over here is a float ball, and it's been resting on the top of the water because it's hollow and it floats. When the water is gone, this goes down and as it goes down, it opens up this valve and lets new water come in. As soon as the new water starts coming in, this flops back in place, the tank starts to fill up and raises this back up, and it should shut off.
Now, if the water is running out over this overflow tube, and you look inside there and you think "Oh, there's where the problem is," then lift up on this rod, and if it shuts off, then all you have to do to make the repair is to bend down slightly. Now don't play King Kong with this bending trick because you might break something.
Remember now, if you look inside the tank and the water's going out over the overflow, and if, when you lift up on this rod right here, it shuts it off, then you know you have a real easy repair job.
It's not the only reason that you have a problem with a singing toilet. We'll cover some of the those things in the future.
Episode 27 1996 - 97 Season
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