Episode 006 1995 - 96 Season
| Plumbing Top Out | Window Treatments (design) | Electrical Rough-In | Toilet Repair | Steel Frame Rough-In | Dimmer Switch Installation | FHA Loans | |
To order a Video Tape, call 1-800-TO-BUILD and ask for Episode #006.
Al Carrell: Have you got a toilet that just runs all the time? If you do, it probably keeps you awake at night, and it also is wasting water and we don't want to do that. If you know how the toilet tank operates, you may be able to figure out what's wrong. Now first of all, if you look inside the tank, you'll see that when you push down on the lever, this stopper down at the bottom, in this case it's a flapper, rises up and it lets all the water that's in the tank go whooshing on out down into the bowl. Now, this float ball that's over here floating on top of the water, doesn't have any water to float on anymore so it goes down. When it does go down, it opens up a valve over here and lets more water start filling back up. In the meantime, the flapper falls back in place and so the tank really does fill up. As it does, this rises up and when it gets up to a certain point, it shuts off the water. Now, if the water is running all the time because it's going out over the top of this overflow tube, which is just a hollow tube that's sticking up here, then you have the simplest repair you can imagine. Because all you need to do is just reach down in the tank, use both hands and bend down on this brass rod. Don't try to play King Kong, just bend it down a little bit, see if that takes care of the problem, and if not, bend it down a little more. Now if that doesn't solve the problem, you may have to take this valve apart. Maybe you can repair it. If you can't, you can buy a new replacement. It doesn't cost a lot of money and if it's going out around here you want to be sure you figure out why it's not seating itself properly down there. Now that was a pretty simple repair, wasn't it?
Episode 006 1995 - 96 Season
| Plumbing Top Out | Window Treatments (design) | Electrical Rough-In | Toilet Repair | Steel Frame Rough-In | Dimmer Switch Installation | FHA Loans | |
To order a Video Tape, call 1-800-TO-BUILD and ask for Episode #006.