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I want to go ahead and replace the guts on all 3 of my toilets, but I replaced one of them about a year ago and it has gone bad again. I know that electricians shouldn't mess with water, but I don't think I was at fault here (honest!) and just want recommendations for a good brand.
One toilet will flush, but the gasket will not seat correctly when it goes down again. I have to take the lid off the tank and manually reset it so that water will stop pouring and pouring into the bowl. This uses up enormous amounts of water. Another has a slow trickle and I can get it to stop if I jiggle the handle, but I feel like I shouldn't have to come back after flushing and do this, especially if it's the last thing I do before leaving the house and I don't notice it. That's a lot of water wasted.
Anyway, I'm just wondering what brand I should use. I want something that WORKS and works well (and that might also be a little easy on the install). I don't mind paying a little extra for products that are going to last me for a decade or more.
I utilized the "Korky" brand before and would prefer to avoid this, and I'm wondering what take some of you plumbers might have on that brand.
I have used the water-saving dual flush conversions for the last five or so. (Flip the lever up for a small flush, down for a big one; both levels adjustable.) They mount and operate a little differently than the flapper models, and fixed poor sealing problems on at least one.
No problems or failures on any of them in up to three years. Brand eludes me, it's the red and green ones.
You didn't say which toilets you have. If you have certain of the low-flow Totos with a flapper, they just don't work very well; Toto has made a "flush tower" replacement that works much better.
May not be the case here but in one house I've found sediment in the tank from the water which occasionally gets on the rim and keeps the flapper from sealing. Vacuuming out the tank and wiping the rim and flapper clean keeps it working until the next time .
In other houses sometimes just replacing the flapper was all that was needed.
May not be the case here but in one house I've found sediment in the tank from the water which occasionally gets on the rim and keeps the flapper from sealing. Vacuuming out the tank and wiping the rim and flapper clean keeps it working until the next time .
In other houses sometimes just replacing the flapper was all that was needed.
In that case they might need a sediment filter on the water line where it comes into the house? I have that problem and I have to keep changing the filters.
However; it almost sounds as if toilet flappers might have the wrong shape? They make them in many different sizes and if you don't have the right size (make) for the right toilet; they will leak. I have had that problem in the past. The outlet that they fit in is angled and if that angle is not right on the flapper it will not seat properly.
Flapper seal problems (in rough order) are typically:
hinge holes messed up -improperly set/deformed/sticking/hinge pins dirty
pull chain at an angle or influencing how flapper falls
tank water corrosive from in-tank scent blocks etc. Get rid of those.
top of drain passage messed up dirty/damaged
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