I fixed my toilet
Jan. 25th, 2010 01:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pseydtonneIt's amazing how much it can get on your nerves when the toilet valve doesn't detect a low water level anymore.
When a modern toilet float fails, it will still float but it won't sink without pushing it. This means I've had to lift the lid and push it or the tank won't fill after a flush. This wasn't a problem in the days of bulb floats, but now our toilets are too small for those by law. This is an amazing pain when I'm still mostly asleep and want to stay that way.
I bought the replacement float and valve a month or two ago, when the valve was only failing half the time. Then it started failing all the time, but I was afraid to deal with draining the tank.
Last night the stick that connects the flush handle to the chain broke. It was a skinny piece of plastic. Today I went to the giant hardware store that now tries to hustle you on your way in (at least at its West Roxbury location on VFW Parkway) and got the parts for eight bucks. Since I had to drain most of the tank to fix the handle, I figured I would mop up the rest and replace the valve assembly while I was at it.
It wasn't as scary as I thought it would be. I don't fear computers, but plumbing seems like a land of mopping and messes. Now that I've tackled this, I am not as afraid. I didn't even wind up a mess.
Now I have a sane home again. I can get back to removing weird shit from my cousin's computer -- or backing up the files, wiping it and starting fresh. The evil on this box wouldn't even let me open the Task Manager, change the background or open regedit. I uninstalled a lot of evil thanks to an existing copy of CCleaner but I still think a fresh start will be best.
When a modern toilet float fails, it will still float but it won't sink without pushing it. This means I've had to lift the lid and push it or the tank won't fill after a flush. This wasn't a problem in the days of bulb floats, but now our toilets are too small for those by law. This is an amazing pain when I'm still mostly asleep and want to stay that way.
I bought the replacement float and valve a month or two ago, when the valve was only failing half the time. Then it started failing all the time, but I was afraid to deal with draining the tank.
Last night the stick that connects the flush handle to the chain broke. It was a skinny piece of plastic. Today I went to the giant hardware store that now tries to hustle you on your way in (at least at its West Roxbury location on VFW Parkway) and got the parts for eight bucks. Since I had to drain most of the tank to fix the handle, I figured I would mop up the rest and replace the valve assembly while I was at it.
It wasn't as scary as I thought it would be. I don't fear computers, but plumbing seems like a land of mopping and messes. Now that I've tackled this, I am not as afraid. I didn't even wind up a mess.
Now I have a sane home again. I can get back to removing weird shit from my cousin's computer -- or backing up the files, wiping it and starting fresh. The evil on this box wouldn't even let me open the Task Manager, change the background or open regedit. I uninstalled a lot of evil thanks to an existing copy of CCleaner but I still think a fresh start will be best.
