Water leaking from a toilet is not only a drain on the pocketbook but can also lead to premature wear of your toilet’s internals.
To check to see if your toilet might be leaking:
- Open the top of the tank and add some red food coloring to the water.
- Come back an hour later and open the toilet seat to see if the water in the bowl has a pink/red tinge. If it does, then you’ll need to replace the flapper in your tank.
Replace the flapper in your tank:
- Shut off the water valve into the toilet.
- Take off the tank lid.
- Flush the toilet to drain the water from the tank
- Soak up any excess water as necessary.
- Disconnect the flush chain from the lever and slide the old flapper up and out over the overflow tube.
- Replace it with a new flapper.
- Reconnect the lever.
- Turn the water back on.
Some toilet internals differ slightly.
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