TOILET MAINTENANCE 101

Challenges of Maintaining A Toilet

Your Toilet Needs You

Maintaining your Simi Valley bathroom, including your toilet is an important part of keeping up with your homes housekeeping and plumbing. The steps you take today can ease any problems you may need to face in the future. It is doubtful that anyone in their right mind really enjoys the chore of maintaining their toilet properly, but is a necessary and unavoidable task that can prevent problems such as these top 3 toilet maintenance challenges:

Check and Maintain a Noisy Toilet

A noisy toilet is generally a result of after you flush, the water continues to run until you give the handle a wiggle or push the button, whichever the case may be. How do you prevent this? Take the top of the toilet tank off and check it to see if the flush valve flapper is intact. 9 times out of ten, this pesky device probably isn’t sitting down as it should.

Check the chain and float ball, if it is the chain try your hand at making it shorter to reduce the chain. The ball may be the culprit, and the way to fix the problem is to easily adjust the screw at the linkage arm at the float rod to the ballcock.

If these issues do not easily resolve themselves with these tips, it is important to call a Simi Valley professional to fix your toilets issues before they worsen. And then, voila! Your noisy and annoying toilet will be again singing a sweet tune with no more fuss!

Challenging as your toilets ongoing maintenance may sound, it is actually pretty simple to take extra measures to help support your toilets function today, in order to help prevent problems in the future.

Take Care of Leaking and Dripping Taps and Toilets

Dual Flush toilets are frequently known to start leaking at the valve after a certain period of time and need replacing. How do you replace the valve? Step 1: You will need to remove the old Fill Valve. Step 2: Disconnect the old supply line as well as the fill valve nut and remove the fill valve.

Step 3: Place the valves shank onto the fill valve, then insert the fill valve into the tank opening, push down on the shank and tighten the locknut for one-half turn. Step 4: Wait for the tank to fill up. Then adjust the water level by firmly squeezing the adjustment clip and moving the float up or down as needed to adjust.

Congratulations, a quick and inexpensive adjustment to your toilet has just been repaired by handy you. You deserve a pat on the back!

Did You Know That Toilets Today Account for Over 35% of All Water Used in Your Entire Home?

This is a waste of water that can easily overload your soak-away. So, make a valuable change, and consider using a ‘Hippo’, make the switch to a dual flush toilet system or convert your current toilet to an eco toilet with an conversion kit to reduce the amount of water. a water saving benefit to you and for the environment.

It is recommended that you use a professional before undergoing any extensive conversions or repairs for toilet repair. There are many basic plumbing issues that can be repaired with a little know how, but remember sometimes guessing and trying to troubleshoot problems on your own only leads to more problems in the future.

Are you having trouble with your Simi Valley, CA plumbing system? Call Fix It Fast Plumbing at (805) 623-4417 for all your repair needs!