By Dad, How Do I
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This is how you fix most toilets that won’t stop running.
It is more than likely that the flapper isn’t sealing properly. It gets a little more complicated (and the video would be a lot longer) if it is the float valve, so you should start by swapping out the flapper.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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okay so I get a call from my daughter
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the other day and she says dad my toilet
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won’t stop running and I thought for a
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second well it can’t be that fast when
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did she catch it that didn’t really
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happen they just it was a dead tuna T
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and if I would’ve missed it you might
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have wondered about me
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so anyway so I’m going to show you how
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to fix a running toilet that just means
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that the water just can is trying to
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fill back up and it doesn’t have a good
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seal and so you’ll need what’s called a
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flapper and all that is is it’s the
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flapper flips up when you flush the
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toilet and then it flips back down and
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tries to seal the toilet so that the
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tank can feel fill back up and if the
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seal isn’t good then it will just keep
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trying to fill keep trying to fill and
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then it’s irritating and plus it can
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cost you some money so I’m going to show
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you how to fix that okay so this is what
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I’m talking about when you go ahead and
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flush the toilet
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and that right now it’s filling back up
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and so it’s running right if that
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doesn’t shut off I’ll show you what
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causes that okay so we’re looking over
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the back of our toilet here so here’s
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the the tank that we’re talking about
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right I’m gonna lift off the lid and set
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that somewhere where it won’t get
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damaged and then now we’re looking down
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and you can see the flapper down inside
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there right it’s kind of a pale pink
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color so I’m gonna go ahead and replace
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that mine’s currently working but they
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eventually wear out anyway so let’s
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we’ll just go ahead and replace it and
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so I’m going to show you what happens
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when you flush the toilet right I’m
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gonna go ahead and flush the toilet when
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I flush it that flapper is gonna lift up
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the water is gonna go out flush the
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toilet and then it’s gonna want to fill
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back up but I don’t want it to fill back
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up because I need to get down to my
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flapper so once I flush it I’m gonna
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actually shut off the water over here
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right so let’s go ahead and do that let
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it drain down okay and then we can just
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let the rest of the water out okay there
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we go and then so it’s just attached you
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can see it’s attached to this handle
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it’s got this chain here and my new
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flapper comes with the chain as well so
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I’m gonna go ahead and swap those out
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okay so I’m just gonna unclip the old
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flapper the old flapper has clips that
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these bliss black piece here is may
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actually made a plastic and it’s just
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clipped on on both sides there so I’m
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just gonna snap those off okay so we’re
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gonna pull that one off that one off and
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then we’re gonna remove it from here
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it’s got a little clip that clips on to
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the handle that flushes and it actually
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looked like that okay
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that’s the old one okay okay and then
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the new one is actually a little bit
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different we want to make sure that’s
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pointing down and then it’s these are
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just rubber
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there’s
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gonna slip right over the top of those
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things okay so we’re just gonna slip
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them on there and then you write it’s
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just gonna go right back down where that
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one was and then you just take this and
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clip this one on I usually just start in
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the middle it’s just a metal piece like
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that it’s just right down there that’s
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gonna love that and you may have to
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adjust this later but we’re just gonna
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start there start in the middle and work
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from there if you need to it’s probably
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fine okay and I’m just going to turn the
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water back on and I’ll let that fill up
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and then we’ll pick back up okay so it
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just got filled back up it looks like
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it’s sealed properly because the that’s
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when it stopped running if that wasn’t
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sealed and just keep running keep them
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trying to fill that tank
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okay so we’re basically good to go all
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right you got this
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