StrawberryBlonde
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Ok, I'll try to keep this short and simple.
I needed to replace a 1976 brilliantly blue toilet in my guest bathroom last week.
It had a cracked tank, but other than that, no noticeable problems.
I headed to my only local plumbing/hardware store (American Standard) and purchased the least expensive model, since my plans are to gut this lovely blue bathroom and redo the whole thing in 6 months.
Welp, I got my $150.00 toilet home, along with new flange bolts and a super duper wax ring and completed the job in record time (minus the gagging because the toilet had been sitting unused and gathering mold for 18 months whilst the house was on the market).
All looked fine that night and I headed off to bed happy. Next morning I noticed a leak around the tank at the floor. Time to redo the ring, right?
Bought a new ring, carefully scraped off the old one, checked the flange for cracks, etc.
Everything looked fine, no rocking toidy, nothing.
Installed the new ring on the tank, plopped the toidy carefully onto the bolts, tightened it down and voila...no leaks.
Next morning....leaking again.
Pulled the bowl yet again and noticed that the plastic ring that comes with the wax ring was crimped as if I hadn't seated it properly. Soooo, I assumed that it was user error (cuz I admit that I'm new at this...even if it does seem pretty simple and straightforward to replace a wax ring!).
Off to the store to buy my third wax ring. Scraped old wax, double checked the flange for cracks, checked the height of the flange, did everything by the book.
No wobbles, no wiggles, sat on the toidy (with pants on of course) to be sure the ring squished nicely and that the toilet made contact with the floor before I tightened the bolts. It all looked hunky dory to me.
Sure enough, woke up this morning and the danged thing is leaking again!
It seems to take about 8 hours for the leaking to start, and it's a slow leak...not a flood.
So what could I be doing wrong? What have I missed? I hate to have to call a plumber for this. Dang it, I might be "just a girl" but I'm a whiz at doing my own home projects and I hate to be beaten by a danged crapper!
Could it possibly be a faulty toilet? If so, where would I look for defects?
Any help or ideas will be gratefully accepted.
Strawberry
I needed to replace a 1976 brilliantly blue toilet in my guest bathroom last week.
It had a cracked tank, but other than that, no noticeable problems.
I headed to my only local plumbing/hardware store (American Standard) and purchased the least expensive model, since my plans are to gut this lovely blue bathroom and redo the whole thing in 6 months.
Welp, I got my $150.00 toilet home, along with new flange bolts and a super duper wax ring and completed the job in record time (minus the gagging because the toilet had been sitting unused and gathering mold for 18 months whilst the house was on the market).
All looked fine that night and I headed off to bed happy. Next morning I noticed a leak around the tank at the floor. Time to redo the ring, right?
Bought a new ring, carefully scraped off the old one, checked the flange for cracks, etc.
Everything looked fine, no rocking toidy, nothing.
Installed the new ring on the tank, plopped the toidy carefully onto the bolts, tightened it down and voila...no leaks.
Next morning....leaking again.
Pulled the bowl yet again and noticed that the plastic ring that comes with the wax ring was crimped as if I hadn't seated it properly. Soooo, I assumed that it was user error (cuz I admit that I'm new at this...even if it does seem pretty simple and straightforward to replace a wax ring!).
Off to the store to buy my third wax ring. Scraped old wax, double checked the flange for cracks, checked the height of the flange, did everything by the book.
No wobbles, no wiggles, sat on the toidy (with pants on of course) to be sure the ring squished nicely and that the toilet made contact with the floor before I tightened the bolts. It all looked hunky dory to me.
Sure enough, woke up this morning and the danged thing is leaking again!
It seems to take about 8 hours for the leaking to start, and it's a slow leak...not a flood.
So what could I be doing wrong? What have I missed? I hate to have to call a plumber for this. Dang it, I might be "just a girl" but I'm a whiz at doing my own home projects and I hate to be beaten by a danged crapper!
Could it possibly be a faulty toilet? If so, where would I look for defects?
Any help or ideas will be gratefully accepted.
Strawberry