Lithnights
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We have 6 month old toilet. It uses the newer type of floating mechanism.. I'm not sure how to describe it, but it's not the old type that uses a float ball. This is a plastic piece attached to a vertical piece on the left side of the toilet and it moves up as the water rises, and drops down as toilet is flushed. Hopefully that description is good enough.
So here is my problem. Quite often, way too often in fact, the floating mechanism rises nicely with the water until about an inch or so away from where it should stop. And there it gets stuck. Meanwhile the water keeps running since the floating mechanism hasn't reached the top. Bye bye water until I take the top off and tap it free. Then it pops up.
1) What can I do here? I emptied the tank and let the vertical piece and float mechanism dry out, then sprayed with wd-40, hoping that would unstick whatever is causing the stick. But I doubt wd-40 does much good sitting in water.
2) Three months ago, we used an "in tank cleaning product" (2000 flushes or something like that). 2 days ago while trying to fix this problem, I noticed the tank state that such products shouldn't be used. I did see lots of gook and pieces of the product floating around so I'm wondering... could this contribute to the sticking of the float? I have since cleared out the remains of the product, but the float still sticks. Not every time, but often. Very inconsistent.
Any thoughts?
Thank you in advance.
So here is my problem. Quite often, way too often in fact, the floating mechanism rises nicely with the water until about an inch or so away from where it should stop. And there it gets stuck. Meanwhile the water keeps running since the floating mechanism hasn't reached the top. Bye bye water until I take the top off and tap it free. Then it pops up.
1) What can I do here? I emptied the tank and let the vertical piece and float mechanism dry out, then sprayed with wd-40, hoping that would unstick whatever is causing the stick. But I doubt wd-40 does much good sitting in water.
2) Three months ago, we used an "in tank cleaning product" (2000 flushes or something like that). 2 days ago while trying to fix this problem, I noticed the tank state that such products shouldn't be used. I did see lots of gook and pieces of the product floating around so I'm wondering... could this contribute to the sticking of the float? I have since cleared out the remains of the product, but the float still sticks. Not every time, but often. Very inconsistent.
Any thoughts?
Thank you in advance.