{"id":33,"date":"2008-08-17T20:28:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T01:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absoblogginlutely.net\/irl\/2008\/08\/17\/the-toilets-fixed\/"},"modified":"2008-08-17T20:28:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T01:28:20","slug":"the-toilets-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absoblogginlutely.net\/irl\/2008\/08\/17\/the-toilets-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"The toilet’s fixed."},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago I finally decided to investigate our phantom flushing toilet. As the toilets in the US are nothing like the UK (really they are not!) I looked on youtube for some help. The first answer was to brush the rubber flapper seal<\/a> to get rid of the crud that had gathered on the seal.  I tried that, but all that happened was that my hands got covered in black stuff due to the rubber disintegrating – so if you try this and get black hands, you might as well stop as it’s not going to work.<\/p>\n

So the next stop, two weeks later (today) was to take the old flapper off and get a replacement<\/a>….Took me a while, but I eventually snapped the flapper attachment off the base unit, wrapped it in a bag and went to Lowes. I’m glad I took the old unit with me as I didn’t realise there were so many different types of flappers. It didn’t help that there were two versions of the American Standard (which is a bit of an oxymoron if there are two standards) flapper – it turned out I had type number 5 – but only by comparing the units shape and size.  However I then found that I could buy just the flapper seal itself. So risking this not solving the issue I purchased it, took it home and pulled the old seal off – note to anyone else looking at doing this – when the seal pops off it will spray water and rubber everywhere….I think I cleaned it all up…<\/p>\n

Couple of seconds later the new seal was on and the toilet hasn’t flushed itself since. Saved me a plumbers bill, water and a new toilet – thanks to Kristen for putting up with the tank lid off for so long!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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