August 25th, 2005 - Toilets
Earlier this summer, our first floor toilet started leaking (not on the floor, but within the tank). The flapper (I think) we’d replaced last year no longer sealed. I hadn’t thought the sealant stuff was very good in the first place and turns out I was right. It’s what came with it, however. I looked and looked and looked and finally thought I’d found what we needed to fix it. So two weeks ago, we took the tank off and started to fix it…only to find that the part was too big.
Long story short: Our only solution was a new toilet. Which we installed ourselves last Saturday. It was easier than we thought it would be! And we now have a 1.6 gallon flush toilet, which utterly delights me. Our old toilets always had 2 20oz bottles in them to reduce the water, but now not even one bottle will fit in the tank! I’m so thrilled I want to replace the old upstairs toilet, too!
December 11th, 2006 at 3:20 pm EST
[…] The toilet we installed ourselves 16 months ago has ended up not be quite so frugal. Last week, Eric flushed and water came out around the base. Cost $109 for the plumber to come and reseat the toilet. Turns out we missed some bolts on the flange (don’t actually recall replacing the flange but maybe Eric did that on his own?) and the toilet was attached solely by gravity. It was only a matter of time before this happened. […]