I fixed the toilet!
I'm not naturally inclined to fix things around the house, but today, I fixed the toilet! For the past 5 days, our one and only toilet has been flaky about refilling itself after a flush. About half the time, it was working, and the other half, it didn't. Every time the toilet wouldn't refill itself, we had to fill a couple of buckets of water and poor the water into the toilet. Isn't that annoying?
Today I went to the hardware store and explained the problem to the owner. He told me exactly what to do. I purchased a new toilet fill valve (an anti-siphon model) for $14.39. When I got home, I shut off the water to the toilet, flushed it, sponged out the remaining water, then unscrewed the old valve and removed it. I simply swapped in the new valve and installed the water overflow rubber tubing. The only tool I used was scissors to cut the tubing to the right size.
Voila!!! It worked!!! I might be good with computers, but home repair always intimidates me, and I'm happy to know that I'm less useless around the house :-)
Today I went to the hardware store and explained the problem to the owner. He told me exactly what to do. I purchased a new toilet fill valve (an anti-siphon model) for $14.39. When I got home, I shut off the water to the toilet, flushed it, sponged out the remaining water, then unscrewed the old valve and removed it. I simply swapped in the new valve and installed the water overflow rubber tubing. The only tool I used was scissors to cut the tubing to the right size.
Voila!!! It worked!!! I might be good with computers, but home repair always intimidates me, and I'm happy to know that I'm less useless around the house :-)
posted by Steven | 4:29 PM
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