Toilet Repair FAQs:

Questions & answers about how to diagnose and fix a toilet: how to fix a clogged toilet, slow flushing toilet, or a noisy or leaky toilet? How do toilet valves & controls work? How do I fix a toilet that is loose or wobbly. These replies to reader questions help diagnose and fix most toilet troubles.

This article series discusses the cause, diagnosis, and repair of toilet problems (water closet problems) such as a toilet that does not flush well, clogged toilets, slow-filling toilets, running toilets, loose wobbly toilets, and odors at leaky toilets. Here we explain how to diagnose and repair problems with toilets, leaks, flushes, odors, noises, running and wasted water.

Toilet Fill, Flush, Drain, Odor, Noise, Problem FAQs

Questions & answers about how to repair toilet problems, posted originally

at TOILET REPAIR GUIDE - home - be sure to review the toilet trouble diagnosis and repair advice given there.

Also see our index to all toilet troubleshooting and repair questions and answers at TOILET REPAIR FAQs

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• FLUSH VALVE FLAPPER LEAK FAQs - toilet runs, toilet flushes itself

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Toilet Valve Flapper Leak or Self-Flushing Toilet FAQs

Tip: See details at TOILET RUNS CONTINUOUSLY

Why is toilet flushing itself repeatedly?

A toilet in our daughters home flushes ok, but when the water comes back up into the tank it goes back down, then fills again.

This is constant and they have to shut off the water at the toilet to get it to stop. What is going on and what do we do to fix it? On 2017-03-01 by Susan

by (mod) - Flush Valve / Flapper Valve Leak

Sounds as if the flush valve or flapper is not sealing in the bottom of the toilet tank.

Try replacing the flapper valve and if that doesn't work you'll have to replace the valve seat as well.

Be sure to read our detailed discussion of this problem

at TOILET FLUSHES BY ITSELF - toilet flushes itself even when not in use

and at TOILET RUNS CONTINUOUSLY we describe all of the various reasons that a toilet runs or leaks, including a bad flapper valve

 

Water streams constantly down the back of my toilet bowl and it flushes itself every 2 minutes

My toilet is running water/a steady stream constantly in the back of the bowl. then every 2 minutes it sounds as though it's just beginning to flush every 2 minutes and I hear and see even more water flowing into the bowl. then the clang clang of the pipes/whatever.

then it goes back to just the steady stream of water running in from the back of the bowl and repeats this process OVER AND OVER AND OVER.

i wish i could fix it myself, just don't know what to do. please help me b/c it could be days before i can get someone who might be able to help and this is driving me nuts as well as a terrible waste of water. i'd at least like to know what is wrong.....and thank you so much in advance!

i might also add that when i actually do go to flush the toilet, it does feel the same like a definite flush used to. like the flapper is not sealed to begin with or something. it used to just feel like you pushed down and it definitely flushed now it's just so weak, i don't know if it's going to flush or not but it does.

i just wanted to add this to my question b/c my problem might be two-fold. thank you so much. (Mar 2, 2014) chentell

Reply:

Chantell,

Either the toilet fill valve is overfilling the toilet and sending water into the bowl through the overflow tube in the flush tank

or

The flapper valve that opens to send water from the tank to the bowl when you turn the flush lever is leaking and needs replacement.

In the links at CONTINUE READING just above you can take a look at

• TOILET OVERFLOW EMERGENCY
• TOILET RUNS CONTINUOUSLY

 

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