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Toilet dripping noises.
Most often times it’s a flapper ball that deformed. Time to change the flapper. This is a regular maintenance item. Sometimes the chain gets trimmed too short. This one the front of the flapper has begun curling up.
These are supposedly a five year flapper but if people use additives and what not than they won’t actually last five years. Because of the additives. Especially in a toilet where people go on vacation or out of town for periods of time or don’t use like a second bathroom very often. The additive will become concentrated and can eat the seals. Especially the flapper.
Change the flapper. We should be all set. Sometimes the fill valve itself can wear out. The seat can get a little ridge in it. There is a kit I have for replacing that. It sticks on the existing ridge.
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Okay. Got a new flapper. You probably noticed all the cloudiness. How white the water turned. What happens is the tank gets built up with calcium and mineral deposits. They just build up and get built up.
So what I am going to do is as I’m changing this out. Trimming the new chain down to size. We don’t want the excess chain there because it can get bound up and hang up.
You can see how cloudy the water is. That’s because of the calcium mineral deposits that just get built up every time this thing is flushed for however many years old this is. What we are going to do is rinse all that out as we change this flapper here. Here goes. Unclip the old one. Unclip the chain off the handle. Before I put the new one in I am going to pull this off and rinse all the sediment off of the bottom. Just direct that into the drain. Using a wet dry vacuum works good to. This will get a lot of it. As well as off the sides. That’s just going to minimize how cloudy the water is.
Alright, here goes our new flapper. Put it back on the chain. Test it out. We’re good. But if we need to we can bend the handle a little bit. Here we go. Bend it either way. We have enough slack in the chain. We also get a full lift. Perfect.
Alright. It’s still going to be a little bit cloudy. It’s not perfect but it is better than it was. Let’s see if that is going to stop the dripping sound that we had going earlier.
And here is our old flapper. I usually just take this and put it back in the case. But these just get rippled over time. And the question is. Is it going to stop? Answer is. Yes it is.
Alright. Good to go.Got cleaners coming to clean. So just getting everything ready.
A quick search of my Youtube channel you should be able to find a bunch of material that will be helpful to your maintenance needs and links to tools and parts can be found in the descriptions below.
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Plunger http://amzn.to/2lIm7eV
Toilet Bowl Cleaner http://amzn.to/2mxWQDm
Plastic Standard Size Toilet Seat http://amzn.to/2kYddNe
Plastic Elongated Size Toilet Seat http://amzn.to/2miTCrh
Nice Channel Locks Set http://amzn.to/2mc5IhS
Nice Adjustable Wrench http://amzn.to/2mc4we8
Toilet Supply Line http://amzn.to/2kY6pix
Flapper Plus Fill Valve http://amzn.to/2lWHSdo
Tank To Bowl Gasket Kit http://amzn.to/2lHCGsO
Toilet Wax Ring http://amzn.to/2mxFKWe
Nice Ratchet Set Standard And Deep Sockets http://amzn.to/2kYetf6
Plumbers Sockets Set http://amzn.to/2lYWzwT
Terry Cloth Towel Rags http://amzn.to/2lZaFOM
Get the screwdriver used in so many KFM videos here http://amzn.to/2kHFoOF
Get the multi tool pliers used in so many KFM videos http://amzn.to/2kWTjPp