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> there’s no way to trickle a toilet If you have a tank toilet you might be able to adjust the floater (bend the rod upwards) so it never quite turns off the s
by jmkb 6y ago
> there’s no way to trickle a toilet
If you have a tank toilet you might be able to adjust the floater (bend the rod upwards) so it never quite turns off the supply valve. Failing that, you can just manually prop the flap open with something.
If you have a flushometer, remove the nut over the valve and adjust the screw underneath until the valve never quite shuts off.
Warning: Take careful note of exactly how things were before. A toilet that never stops running can be just as hard on the spirit as a toilet that doesn't work at all.
- hotsauceror 6y agoI guess that’s true. But the alarm on our septic starts screaming after about six hours of a trickling toilet. The alarm is pretty much there for that specific condition and the installer really hammered on the need to fix a leaking toilet Immediately. I guess in the grand scheme of things a new grinder pump and a visit from the honey wagon are cheaper than a condemned house, though...
- gnarlysasquatch 6y agoOtherwise there are folks who would let the toilet run for a year without fixing it.
- pas 6y agoDoesn't that simply means water and sewage treatment are also too cheap?
- mattacular 6y agoNo, it just means people act human.
- KMag 6y agoFor a couple of cents, couldn't the grinder circuit include a basic 555 timer de-bounce circuit to suppress multiple triggers within, say, 30 minutes? That seems a lot cheaper than an alarm. Alternatively, why doesn't the grinder have a higher minimum triggering flow rate? It seems it's falsely detecting potential solids arrival.