odSteve
New Member
Hi,
Recently purchased my first house - small 2 bedroom one bath house. Today I noticed a large puddle on the bathroom floor. Turns out the toilet tank has a crack top to bottom in the back. I live in a very small town and had to take what ever the only plummer had available. Turns out to be an entire Gerber 1.2 toilet.
My house was built in 1929 and the old toilet had a good, strong flush with lots of flow - kept the toilet sides clean and sewer flowing well. My new Gerber toilet is the most pathetic toilet I've ever seen - wimpy flush, requires several flushes just to clear the toilet. Looking inside the tank, it only fills about half-way! And its necessary to hold the lever down on each flush just to get the last couple inches of water out. What a waste of $300. Unfortunately I can't afford another replacement.
I'm hoping a bit more water volume will make this toilet work better. What other taller or adjustable water valve float assembly can I use to replace the short Gerber assembly with? The plummer told me there is nothing else that will fit - but I don't understand why. Seems like float valve assemblies look rather self-contained to me with only the hole in the bottom of the tank to be concerned with. I'm sure I can glue a short piece of plastic pipe to the overflow to raise that up a few inches. But aren't there any universal, adjustable water float valve assemblies that would work?
I was also told I cannot just order a new tank for my old toilet as every tank is made for a specific base. And because there is no model number on my old toilet, I'm out of luck. Is it true I can't order a tank by dimensions and hole locations?
Thank you for any help and suggestions you can provide. I just feel like I made the worse decision I could have made, because I needed it done right away. And now I'm stuck with a semi-functional piece of junk for the next few years.
Recently purchased my first house - small 2 bedroom one bath house. Today I noticed a large puddle on the bathroom floor. Turns out the toilet tank has a crack top to bottom in the back. I live in a very small town and had to take what ever the only plummer had available. Turns out to be an entire Gerber 1.2 toilet.
My house was built in 1929 and the old toilet had a good, strong flush with lots of flow - kept the toilet sides clean and sewer flowing well. My new Gerber toilet is the most pathetic toilet I've ever seen - wimpy flush, requires several flushes just to clear the toilet. Looking inside the tank, it only fills about half-way! And its necessary to hold the lever down on each flush just to get the last couple inches of water out. What a waste of $300. Unfortunately I can't afford another replacement.
I'm hoping a bit more water volume will make this toilet work better. What other taller or adjustable water valve float assembly can I use to replace the short Gerber assembly with? The plummer told me there is nothing else that will fit - but I don't understand why. Seems like float valve assemblies look rather self-contained to me with only the hole in the bottom of the tank to be concerned with. I'm sure I can glue a short piece of plastic pipe to the overflow to raise that up a few inches. But aren't there any universal, adjustable water float valve assemblies that would work?
I was also told I cannot just order a new tank for my old toilet as every tank is made for a specific base. And because there is no model number on my old toilet, I'm out of luck. Is it true I can't order a tank by dimensions and hole locations?
Thank you for any help and suggestions you can provide. I just feel like I made the worse decision I could have made, because I needed it done right away. And now I'm stuck with a semi-functional piece of junk for the next few years.