by "Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
Published 04/18/2017 at 22:47
by "Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
Published 04/18/2017 at 22:47
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Toilet wouldn’t flush unless you held the handle down. There is a hole in the side of the flapper, and one in the bottom. A little tape on the side hole and everything works fine. Yeah, it’s not a proper fix, but it’s cheap and it works and nobody has to see it.
And one weird thing about the flapper in my toilet - it was made in Colombia. I rarely see anything in the US that was made anywhere in South America, and I wouldn’t have assumed that you’d be able to find plumbing parts here that were made there, but there it is.
"DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
04/18/2017 at 23:09, STARS: 0
A cheap fix also would’ve been going to Home Depot and getting a new flapper for $2 :)
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
04/18/2017 at 23:40, STARS: 0
Pfffft... take time to go over there, spend money, wait in line, disassemble the toilet after removing three years of Hemming’s Sports and Exotic Car from the top of the tank, etc. so on and so forth. My solution set me back two minutes and cost a fraction of a cent.
Yeah, the tape was just a proof of concept, and at this point I’m just waiting to see how long it will last. I had plans to get a new flapper, but on the way home from Costco with a car full of perishables I forgot why I needed to stop at the hardware store...
"XJDano" (xjdano)
04/18/2017 at 23:58, STARS: 1
My chain broke on the downstairs toilet. So much so that it wouldn’t be repaired. Perhaps it was the actual arm attached to the handle. I bent a wire hanger and attached to the flapper and made my wife use it like that for a few days.