My toilet knowledge is 50 years old. This is my girlfriend's modern toilet in her rental house.
The flush handle kept falling off. I bought a new handle close to the length of the old handle and hooked the chain to the end of the actuating rod.
What happens is the flush cylinder turns clockwise after several flushes and the chain repositions itself so that it does not have enough leverage to lift the mechanism to start the flush.
Directly above where the cylinder rotates to, the flush rod has a groove. Is the chain somehow supposed to be attached there? It is not a hole, just a groove.
I think there is just something about these modern toilets that needs to be explained to me.
Here is a picture: you can see the chain going around to the left edge of the cylinder, directly below the hard-to-see groove in the rod
While we're at this, the handle has already fallen off. There is no set screw. The square hole in the handle just pushes on to the square end of the rod. If it just pushes on, a little pull and it comes right off.
What am I missing in all of this? Until now my girlfriend thought I knew everything.
flush levers have a square hub that fits a square indentation in the tank.
What I have found is often the square handle plug fits very loose in the square hole in the tank. You might need to put in a very slim shim to hold the handle in place.
Is the chain too long? I have had to shorten some in the past.
Also, when you say, 'rental,' I have inferred she is the owner and renting it out. If she is the tenant, this is all moot as the landlord should be contacted to take care of it.
As I recall, most toilet flush levers have a square hub that fits a square indentation in the tank. That's what keeps it from rotatating. So take it apart and see if the plastic square hub is stripped. It works like a carriage bolt, and should not allow the hub to rotate when the nut is tight... just the handle and arm should move independently.
Hi - I have an Insinkerator model SST instant hot water faucet on my sink. It was installed about 12 years ago. It's been pretty spitty for a while but useable. Recently it's gotten a little worse, so I'm looking into how to fix it. The Emerson website mentions potentially needing to change the filter on models with a filter, but I feel like the older model doesn't have one (hopefully not, since I've never changed it). It also talks about clearing the aerator (diagram shows it as a piece next to the faucet, but I don't see that either. Finally it says turn the temperature down - ours was set to the max, so I did that but it only helped a little. Before I tear the thing open, any potentially easy fixes I could try?
Thanks,
Andy
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I think I need to say that in my 74 years I have replaced many wax rings. But this one has me stumped. I bought this house a few years ago and discovered water on the floor under and around the toilet. I pulled the toilet and found that the PVC flange was cracked where the right side bolt fit. So I installed this part:[img]https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.doityourselft.com-vbulletin/1500x1500/image_bcc8c2fffee06c39c619a4a1f71b83bf216fc9f3.png[/img]
Using a wax ring under the part as instructed. That was two years ago. Three days ago it was leaking again. I pulled the toilet and everything seemed right except maybe the outlet on the bottom of the toilet may not have been centered in the blue rubber funnel thing. It wasn't far off and it seemed the water should have all passed through it.
I did some more inspecting and found that maybe the outlet didn't go far enough into the blue funnel because of some ridges formed into the bottom of the toilet. They could have held the toilet above the funnel.
So I replaced the wax ring under that part and then put another wax ring on top of the part so the toilet should form a seal to the part.
Today it is leaking again.
Any ideas why? To tell the truth, I don't understand why wax rings are needed. Why doesn't the water from the toilet just shoot down the drain? But they are defiantly needed...I'll concede that.
10-03-22, 03:16 PM
