Toilet repair? I have a toilet that will not flush. It turns, and...
I have a toilet that will not flush. It turns, and the tank empty and refills, but the bowl never flushes, leaving some of the dribble away still in the toilet. I have be reading some help sites, and alot say you call for to clean out the little holes in the toilet bowls. Can anyone pass me a quick way of doing that. Is at hand some kind of chemical that I can get that will help yourself to care of that. Please let me know. Thanks.
I usually buy one of those bleach tablets that are as big as a hockey puck and drop it within the tank in the support. I dont have any problems that consist of all that. Just get hold of a giant pipe cleaner, I'm not sure the exact name I'll get pay for to you on it later tonight
the toilet should hold a production date printed inside it if its pre 1996 its not a water saver and not really worth fixing. if its post 1996 after i would check the water level. most of the time the cistern should fill to about 3/4 of an inch below the over flow tube. when you verbs the handle the flapper (or what ever type of flush valve) should go up and remain start until the water reaches the flapper. if this adjectives happens i would bend a "J" in a coat hanger and verbs the holes around the rim. after that id assume the toilet has an stumbling block in the trap way and ego try a plunger then a toilet aguer. if the toilet flushes most of the waste, (but not completely) consequently the tank may not be filling up plenty, you may need to adjust the float inside the tank, some population hang a little shipment on the float to save water, hence it one and only half fills.
Answers: in that can be multiple problems here. i used to check the "weep holes" with a "elevate wire" (the wires used in old toilets in the past flappers were invented that used to attach to the rubber ball).
also check the "jet" at the bottom "IF" it has one.
subsequent, you could have a bad wax stamp. when the wax seal is broken, the venturi effect is lost and the toilet will not "suck" down the waste as it should.
thirdly: some toilets be poorly manufactured. they never did flush right. these were built before the invention of the flapper so if you own a flapper it probably doesn't apply to you.
so in a nutshell, things to check are:
1) tank hose down level
2) amount of water flowing into the overflow tube during a flush.
3) wax trademark
4) date of toilet manufactured.
one last note. do you use those blue tablets within the tank? sometimes those dissolve prematurely and get sucked down the flapper hole and clog the bawl holes you are talking about. this will result in exactly what you are talking about. a chain probably won't help this. you'll need to continuously flush "warm" dampen through and melt all the driftwood out.
good luck and email me if you need to!
You have a partial clog. Go acquire you an auger.