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Posted by Nick Hull on July 28, 2005, 11:09 am
> Sasha wrote:
> > I have 2 years old high end Kohler toilet with Flushmaster flashing
> > system. The toilet is in basement bath pumped by a sewage ejector pump.
> > The water from the toilet tank drips to the bowl, ejector pump triggers
> > every a couple hours or so. The problem is that it is almost impossible
> > to see water running into the bow, I wouldn't even know that if the
> > pump didn't run or bowl didn't refill. Maybe when water level drops or
> > rises to a certain level in the tank water starts running down the
> > bowl. To me the flashing system looks OK, I didn't find any problem. I
> > turned the toilet water off and later I saw that the water level was
> > about 4" below the regular water level. What can be wrong and how to
> > fix this?
>
> It's probably leaking through the big flapper valve in the bottom of the
> tank.
> Clean around the porcelain edges and feel for defects in either that surface
> or
> that of the flapper itself. If it is the flapper, you can buy a replacement
> at
> any borg or hardware store for a couple of bucks. There's nothing to
> replacing
> one.
It wouldn't hurt to turn the toilet completely off to make sure the
problem isn't somewhere else ;)
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