Starting Out Savvy » toilet http://www.startingoutsavvy.com Life in Sensible Bites Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:04:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Replacing a Toilet Arm http://www.startingoutsavvy.com/2010/02/replacing-a-toilet-arm/ http://www.startingoutsavvy.com/2010/02/replacing-a-toilet-arm/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:00:37 +0000 Jamie Lee http://www.startingoutsavvy.com/?p=1003 This isn’t the most exciting topic that Peter and I have ever talked about, but its good to know. A couple of weeks ago our downstairs toilet was having trouble. We (Peter) opened the top to figure out what was going on and figured out that our hard water had eaten through the arm on the toilet.

Hard Water Effects on Toilet Arm

(Look at all that dust!)

With a few quick steps we had a brand new working toilet arm. All we did was attach the new chain to the rubber suction like this:

Toilet stopper

Then bring the new arm through the hole where the flusher goes.

Toilet Flusher

Finally, attach the chain from the rubber suction to the end of the new toilet arm.

Fixing a Toilet

There you have it. Make sure that when you attach the chain that it isn’t too tight where the rubber suction never closes or that it isn’t too loose so it doesn’t flush it all.

Have you completed any useful but boring projects lately?

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