Questions tagged [toilet]
For questions specifically regarding sanitation fixtures designed for removal of human waste, generally referred to as toilets but also including urinals and bidets. Topics include designs, installation, repair, plumbing supply and drainage, and sanitary concerns including cleaning.
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Maneuverable Toilet spray pipes like kink free collapsing Garden hoses?
After my travels and stays across the Globe I have realized that a Toilet Spray followed by Toilet paper is more hygenic than only one of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet_shower
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Flush lever for toilet
How do you fix a flush handle that will not push down? It will not move. The toilet will flush if I remove the lid and pull up on the chain.
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Screwing down toilet flange spacers with metal flange still on
After raising the floor and tiling the original waste line and toilet flange is well below the top of the new floor surface. Home depot told me to use some 1/4" souix chief flange extenders / spacers. ...
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Is this what a leaking toilet looks like?
The last couple of weeks I have noticed a stale urine smell in my washroom. I scrubbed the washroom top-to-bottom, but the smell persists :(
Today I noticed that the grout at the "corners" of my ...
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What might be causing our cistern to fill very slowly?
We have a toilet cistern with a concentric float valve fill mecanism. Earlier this week, it suddenly started to take much longer to fill after flushing (ca. 15 minutes instead of less than 1 minute ...
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How Do I Connect PVC Pipe to a Toilet Waste Pipe? [duplicate]
I'm renovating a bathroom. How do I connect a PVC pipe and toilet flange to the existing steel or cast iron waste pipe?
Should I use PVC/DWV foam core pipe?
(I think that the existing pipe is steel, ...
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Toilet water leak - water tank types
I'm just experiencing an issue with water tank in our 20-30 old years old house (Czech rep. for location reference). I have studied type of expansions on Internet for (few hours) + visited shop with ...
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Minimalistic toilet setup in a traveler's trailer [closed]
Planning to build a traveler's trailer from a cargo trailer and was thinking about various toilet setups. I don't care if the trailer looks awful as long as it's cheap and easy to build.
I'm ruling ...
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Toilet water tank sometimes takes hours to fill and sometimes it fill up right away
As stated above, sometimes the tank takes hours to fill and other it fills up in a minute or less. This has been happening now for weeks and I had no changes made recently, it started all of a sudden. ...
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Water supply to toilet is off
Water supply is off and toilet tank is empty. The bowl keeps filling up with water and is overflowing. Where is this water coming from?
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Toilet leaking - is it the washer?
My toilet cistern is leaking water straight into the toilet, just as fast as the cistern is filling. I don't know all the terminology but the washer that forms a seal between the pipe that drains down,...
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How to I fasten this toilet flange down?
I'm redoing my bathroom and had to replace a toilet flange. The old one was rusted cast iron whose flanges had all but disintegrated, and I ground down what was left of it with an angle grinder. It ...
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One of our toilets refills VERY slowly - takes 15-20 minutes after flushing.
Note: Like another user's query, our bowl fills okay, but the tank refills very slowly - takes 15-20 minutes.
We can't detect any leaks. I've adjusted the water valve. I've put a brick in the tank to ...
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Does a toilet have to be level front to back if the toilet doesn't rock and the flange tilts too?
I am swapping out a toilet. The old toilet, a round bowl with a squared front, was shimmed like crazy to get it perfectly level. I dry fit the new elongated bowl toilet to the flange to see what I ...
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Filling up toilet bowl after flush to save water
My toilet fill valve was starting to act funny so I thought I would replace both the fill valve and the flapper since they are relatively inexpensive. I bought these two:
Fluidmaster 400ARHR High ...
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How do I deter drain flies?
I have a small garden and beside it there is a small toilet. There are always many drain flies stuck on the door and inside the toilet walls. Somebody gave me a suggestion to make soap water and spray ...
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How to stop rats from walking in plastic sewage pipe and damaging it?
A rat has scratched open a big hole in a plastic sewage pipe near the toilet. After closing the hole with a metal plate and taping it with power tape, the rat has started scratching again. How to stop ...
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Toilet not flushing after flooding
We have two toilets at home. One doesn't flush well (does this gurgling/bubbling thing) and one used to work. The city flooded for a couple of days and now neither toilets work. The water still "...
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What material is this toilet water supply line?
Photos of my toilet water supply line, which is the part below the valve:
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Based on the appearance, it only fits the description of galvanized iron (which is apparently the ...
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Bouncy Ball stuck in toilet
So I had some of my wife's friends over and one of their kids threw a bouncy ball down the toilet and flushed it, and I don't know what to do, anything will help at this point
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How do I replace bolts for my toilet that were concreted into the original flange?
This is a pic of one of the bolts. But I don't see a channel for it to turn/slip out of. The toilet I bought needs longer bolts.
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Need to fix toilet that moves?
My mom's toilet moves because one of the bolts in the floor is loose. It just moves a little and takes some effort to do it. We had a handyman come look at it and he can't fix it.
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should I replace slightly broken iron toilet flange or switch to new ABS
I'm replacing the sub-flooring and will be tiling. I know that the toilet flange will be low, and it is chipped on one side where the toilet bolts go. I see two options (there could be more...):
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Water flushes, but nothing else
What could be the problem. When flushing my toilet, the water flushes normally, it does not fill up and then drains slowly or anything funny. It flushes normally, but toilet paper and whatever else ...
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Toilet with what looks like 11 inch rough-in. Do I buy 12 or 10?
My current toilet is measuring at 11 inches even from the wall (not the molding) to the center of the bolts. Looking around I see a lot of people saying that they saw somewhere else that a 12 inch ...
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Why does my toilet randomly start running?
Sometimes my toilet starts running for a few seconds at a time, like it's just finishing filling up the tank.
Usually this happens when the bathtub is being drained, or when I turn on the facets in ...
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Sudden leak from toilet after years of no problems
Large stains suddenly appeared on wall and ceiling below second story bath which is unused. No previous problems in 20 year old house, with upper bath being unused for approx last 7-8 years. Wife ...
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Dealing with a toilet that doesn't have an air vent
We have a powder room on the main floor with a toilet that has a sluggish flush. It's not clogged. While investigating the issue I discovered that neither the toilet nor sink in the powder room is ...
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Installing outlet near toilet
In the middle of a bathroom remodel and I have the walls gutted. I'm considering installing an outlet on the far side of the bathroom which will be near a toilet.
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RV / Manufactured Home Toilets Adapter
Situation: I'd like to eventually upgrade my toilet from a cheap, manual flush (need to physically apply foot pressure) to an affordable one that has a "walk away" flushing mechanism. It doesn't ...
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Yellow tub inside toilet tank is leaking
A few weeks ago my toilet started running continuously. When I open up the tank, I see that a yellow tub (not sure what it is) seems to be leaking and allowing water to run continuously:
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Question about picking best wax gasket for toilet (specifically Toto)
I have a question about replacing wax gasket on a toilet. I hope my question is not too simple as this site is advertised as "serious DIY".My toilet is a Toto Aquia model ST464M, but I would think ...
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Water still circulating through toilet even after I shut off the water supply!
Full youtube video is here.
Basically when I turn all the water off to my toilet, water is still leaking out of a yellow tub from inside the tank, and circulating through the toilet.
I need to fix ...
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Toilet is not flushing properly
When I flush my toilet it does not flush with power. It's very weak. I'm constantly plunging it, and there are times when the bowl doesn't fill completely.
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setting toilet flange in concrete
i am trying to rough out a waste line for the toilet in concrete.. what I am not sure about is how do I get he pvc flange to sit straight and flush if I pitch the pipe 1/2 inch to the stack
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Overtightened tank bolts and caused cracks. What are my options?
In my case, the tank is intact, but the bolt hole in the base cracked off. The bowl itself is fully intact and water-tight. This is the bolt that holds the tank down to the base, not the bolt that ...
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Plumbing issue throughout house - gurgling coming from shower, bubbling in toilet, standing water in drain of shower
Update below: Main line snaked
For reference, images of the drain.
I'm going through the whole story in case any details might make a difference in prognosis. If you aren't interested in the ...
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Is there such a thing as Male and Female toilets?
HELP! (First, This question could be a Dementia issue.)
This is about a 100+ yo house in San Francisco,CA. Gerty-The 96 yo. feisty woman who owns it is from the UK originally and has reverted to her ...
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Toilet leaking around tank bolts
After several adjustments, there is still water leakage around the bolts on the underside of the tank. Any thoughts?
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How do I turn off the water flow to my toilet?
I have a leaky tank problem with my upstairs toilet. can I turn the water supply to the toilet? If so, how do I turn off the toilet water supply?
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Toilet bowl fills and overflows but the tank won't fill
toilet bowl fills and will overflow while my tank wont fill up , what is the problem? is this a plugged up toilet? I tried the plugger it but not doing anything
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Why is my toilet tank filling too slowly?
The inside of my toilet tank was just replaced. For some reason after I flush, the tank refills much slower than before. It looks like the person who installed it put the overfill pipe in a different ...
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replacing toilet wax ring seal frequency
I just got a new home (used home). A handy guy I have that does work around the place told me that the wax seals under toilets need to be replaced periodically. I am looking around online about this ...
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Toilet Sounds like it is flushing but it is not
2 or 3 times a day, my toilet sounds like it is filling up - you hear what sounds like water running into the bowl and then a shut off noise but it is not flushing. I've taken the lid off and checked. ...
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Should I replace my toilet's wax ring when I see moisture around the base?
I am noticing moisture around the bottom of the toilet, and can tell some moisture is staining the wood floor when viewed from the basement. The bolts holding the toilet are easily tightened.
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Why mix cooking oil with epoxy to repair a toilet drain pipe?
Today we called a plumber to repair a leak in the seal of a toilet drain pipe. He used metal-filled epoxy putty to seal up the area around the leaking joint, as actually disassembling the joint looks ...
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Does this flange seem like it needs replacing?
We just purchased a house that's about 30 years old. On the first floor a water mark developed on the ceiling, so I've been debugging the upstairs plumbing. My kids' bathroom toilet had some moisture ...
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Small trickle into toilet bowl, flap and valve seem fine
I have a small trickle into a toilet bowl that I'm trying to stop as it's causing rust lines and wasting water. The flapper is relatively new and I ran my finger along the edge of the valve rim to ...
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Can a toilet fill valve be properly installed entirely under the water line?
Most instructions I've found online and in books say that a toilet fill valve will have a Critical Level marker on it indicating that the top of the overflow tube should be 1" below it. In one of my ...
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Why does the shower get cold when I flush, and how can I prevent it?
When the shower is running and someone flushes a toilet, why does the shower get cold (or sometimes hot) in some houses, but not others?
More importantly, would fixing that require replacing the ...