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New Guts

My toilet filler-upper thingy stopped working. After each flush, I was having to take the tank lid off, jiggle the little arm on the thingy, and put the lid back on. It was way too much of a hassle.

Yesterday I got new toilet guts. Since I was getting a new filler-upper thingy, I also decided to get a new flapper thingy. I was going to have the tank drained and my hands dirty anyway – I might as well just have all new parts. I accidentally bought some kind of fancy filler-upper that had some sort of water-saving something or other on it. I pulled all those parts off. More parts just means more that can go wrong.

The change in parts was pretty uneventful. I’ve learned to put something under the hole in the tank to catch water when it runs out. You live and learn. While I had the tank empty, I swished some water around in it to wash out the debris. I like using toilet-cleaning tablets in the tank, and they leave a kind of sandy residue behind. Now my tank is sparkling clean! (except for the brown rust stains, but what’re you gonna do?)

As clean and fresh as a winter morning.

3 Comments

  1. Lauren

    *sigh* I admire that. Our upstairs toilet has had trouble for quite some time, but I’m just too lazy to work on it. The problem is that all my toilet repairs only make the matter slightly better because while fixing one thing, I’ve messed something else up.

    Happy evacuating!

    • Carol

      Glad to read I’m not the only one with the win-lose results on home repair…

  2. Peggy

    Oh if only replacing our guts were as easy! To start with, I’d love a brand spankin’ new hold-it-thru-the-entire-night thingy!

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