Jesus
loves you more than you will know
Ms. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
D
Vautier
9/2016
We
have four toilets so I'm quite familiar with how they work. The
tank is the only complicated part consisting of a fill valve and a flush
valve. That's about as simple as it gets other than leaks and
sticking handles. Toilets have been around a long time and the
engineering by now should be perfect. Not so.
For
the last few months one of our toilets got haunted and would
mysteriously start flushing once in a while. No dogs or cats or
little kids. No chain or debris blocking the flapper. No
sticky handle. I changed the
flapper. Still haunted. I changed the entire flush valve
assembly. Still haunted. I then examined the flapper and
found that it was incorrectly seating every so often because the arms
were made of soft rubber and the connection had a lot of free play. So I
installed a flapper that had plastic arms which eliminated incorrect
seating.
The ghost went away.
As you can see from the flapper the seating was not regular every time.