donatella,
The chain replacement is pretty straight forward.
Buy the flapper which comes with a new chain.
Make sure the flapper says STANDARD so it fits most any toilet.
Turn off the water supply to the tank then just reach in with a pair of rubber gloves and slide the flapper off it’s two hooks.
Replace with new flapper with chain attached and put the new chain on the metal handle piece inside the toilet.
The chain should be under enough tension so that it does not pile up near the flapper and obstruct the flapper from it’s normal opening and shutting.
*note: with most flappers you need a scissor to cut off a small portion of the back flapper to fit properly. They only sell it with the attached rubber portion because some ancient toilets use the extra piece, but it is usually just cut away and this is indicated on the rubber flapper itself with two little imprinted scissor marks.
good luck.
PS:if the flapper is functioning ok, you could simply replace the chain itself which is takes about 2 minutes instead of the 5 minutes for the flapper with chain.
How about that Boehner? wasting money hiring some big hotshot lawyer to fight for DOMA. Wasting taxpayer money much? Talk about throwing money down the toilet.
The kitchen-sex organ posts were initiated, rather inadvertently, by Slopey, at 4:02pm, by posting: “OK, who’s gonna appraise the market value of each of our logins? (And what ever happened to I_haz_two_toilets and is that name up for sale?)”.
A bidding war then ensued between Snappy and ET for the log-in bowl_of_dicks, and it was all downhill from there.
Ironically, Slopey was too embarrassed to post, so he emailed me and made me surrogate post for him.
What’s all this muddler talk? Are you people drinking already?!
So dibs, are to planning to muddle with it, or what?
“Who wants to take this one? CGar? ET?”
Are you insinuating that I have experiences with ancient things possessing strange shapes and unusual hole spacings?
It might be true, but a true gentleman does not talk of such things.
pix, dibs! I have a set of antique sterling muddlers.
donatella,
The chain replacement is pretty straight forward.
Buy the flapper which comes with a new chain.
Make sure the flapper says STANDARD so it fits most any toilet.
Turn off the water supply to the tank then just reach in with a pair of rubber gloves and slide the flapper off it’s two hooks.
Replace with new flapper with chain attached and put the new chain on the metal handle piece inside the toilet.
The chain should be under enough tension so that it does not pile up near the flapper and obstruct the flapper from it’s normal opening and shutting.
*note: with most flappers you need a scissor to cut off a small portion of the back flapper to fit properly. They only sell it with the attached rubber portion because some ancient toilets use the extra piece, but it is usually just cut away and this is indicated on the rubber flapper itself with two little imprinted scissor marks.
good luck.
PS:if the flapper is functioning ok, you could simply replace the chain itself which is takes about 2 minutes instead of the 5 minutes for the flapper with chain.
How about that Boehner? wasting money hiring some big hotshot lawyer to fight for DOMA. Wasting taxpayer money much? Talk about throwing money down the toilet.
Strange holes aren’t usually difficult to deal w/, it’s when the screws are seized.
WELL DONE, LEGION!!!!
The kitchen-sex organ posts were initiated, rather inadvertently, by Slopey, at 4:02pm, by posting: “OK, who’s gonna appraise the market value of each of our logins? (And what ever happened to I_haz_two_toilets and is that name up for sale?)”.
A bidding war then ensued between Snappy and ET for the log-in bowl_of_dicks, and it was all downhill from there.
Ironically, Slopey was too embarrassed to post, so he emailed me and made me surrogate post for him.
What’s the difference between normal ketchup and fancy ketchup?