Recent content by sylvia

I have a heavy duty Maytag washer/dryer set which I bought around 1987. Never had a problem with them, but I moved to a place where I have to use a longer drain hose. I bought three generic "fits 1 inch to 1-1/4 inch" so far, and none of them fit (first two at Lowes, third at Ace). The first...

Success! Toilet is quiet and still Oh, well, I replaced everything already. I didn't like the way that other flapper was seated anyway. I thought that pulling the tank up and placing it back down would be hard but it was lighter and easier to handle than I thought it would be. Tightening the...

Thanks, I'll head for Lowes tomorrow morning and get a pressure guage, shut off valves and a new fill valve. Are both kinds of shut off valves standard? If not, what do I measure? I was going to buy the whole Korky Universal Toilet Repair Kit and replace everything while I'm at it, but I...

Can't shut off water Thanks for the response. I flushed the tank and then I trimmed the refill tube. I opened the shut off valve, but I had to close it again because the water was just pouring out of the refill valve until it overflowed into the overflow pipe. The water you see coming out of...

Water has been trickling into the bowl in little streams. The whole fill valve assembly is less than a year old. I noticed the water level (see Pencil Mark in jpg) was higher than it had been and started to work on adjusting the fill valve to see if that was the problem but realized that the...