Attention PLUMBERS!

[grandma]

My dang toilet water won't stop.

The water holding thank never fills up, so the bobber thingy never goes up and thus the water never shuts off.

Save me a plumbing bill and help me out please!

Grandma

[Knothead]

Hi, Grandma,
Just take the lid off the tank...at the bottom, you'll see a flapper-kind of thingy...push this dowm so it seals against the bottom of the tank.

[nunyadam]

the flapper at the bottom of your tank probably bad.

and knots faster than me.

[grandma]

Thanks guys. Now The water keeps pouring down this thin tube and never stops.

and the water tank never fills.

Modern plumbing. Geez!


Grandma

[fyxxer32]

Try here: Do it yourself forums

[Knothead]

Originally posted by grandma
Thanks guys. Now The water keeps pouring down this thin tube and never stops.

and the water tank never fills.

Hmmm? I dis-understand....the thin tube from the wall to the underside of the tank?

That's the water service...that's where the water comes from.

There's only a couple of things can go wrong w/a toilet, they're pretty simple things...

[grandma]

Inside the back of the toilet, the water comes out from this tube and down into this thin tube. It's like a bottomless pit. lol

[Gomer]

did you push the flap at the bottom down?

[nunyadam]

that hose refills the bowl when you flush. If the flapper is leaking the tank will never completly fill and run water down the drain.

[grandma]

OK, here I go. Nasty ol' rusted out toilet. Probably 100 years old. Hand will probably rot off by morning.

I'll do anyyhing to save a buck. Thanks people.

Grandma