How to Fix a Running Toilet by Yourself

Who hasn’t had a running toilet in their house? I think we all have. We all have fallen short of knowing what to do more than likely and have called someone out to fix it. Well, don’t waste anymore money. Now, you can have an idea of where to start looking for that pesky thing going wrong with your toilet and take care of it yourself rather than wasting the money getting someone else to fix it.. It is quite simple to do this by yourself and we have the steps to teach you how to do it. So, if you want to save yourself some cash and fix it yourself keep reading.

The first thing you need to check would be the guide rod on the tank stopper. This can be found when you lift the lid of the toilet. It could be bent or twisted and that’s all you have to do. Normally, a toilet will have either or. It might have a chain or it might have a guide rod. If that doesn’t do it you proceed to step two.

Step two consists of checking the floating device. Sometimes the flow arm isn’t bent enough and the buoyancy isn’t right. So, try lifting the ball. If this stops the water then there is your problem. If the ball happens to have water in it, then this tells you that it is time to replace the ball on the toilet. It’s easy to replace. You just unscrew it from what is called the arm and put the new one on. Something else you might have to replace is the stopper and the valve. Sometimes this gets damaged by the buildup of debris. Last, when all else fails. You move on to step four if it is yet still running. This might mean that you have to take the valve and assembly and maybe even the whole shaft into the store with you so that you can replace it.

While all this might seem confusing and you might not know where those things are located, you can find a diagram of a toilet and everything in it as well as where all those things are located online. Don’t go and hire someone when it might be a simple task that you can handle yourself. With the economy ever going up so did the price of the calls to make house visits to fix things.