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DIY & Home Improvement

Paper Roses

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6. Thanks as always for your great advice.

Reply to Wash. state Desk Jet (Reply #5)

Sun Oct 26, 2014, 05:38 AM

Oct 2014

My son-in-law will be coming within the next couple of weeks to tend to this. Meanwhile, there is always downstairs. What a pain in the pa-toot. When these old bones were about 20 years younger, I would have done this myself. Now, if I can't get family to help, it is a big bill out of a small income.

How life changes before we even think much about it.

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Exciting Toilet question, can you advise? [View all] Paper Roses Sep 2014 OP

omg I had the same thing. CurtEastPoint Sep 2014 #1

Replace the flapper on the bottom of the tank too. calikid Sep 2014 #2

The flap valve dies frequently relative to the other guts. Warpy Sep 2014 #4

You may have to replace the flapper. JayhawkSD Sep 2014 #3

Given the age of the toilet Wash. state Desk Jet Sep 2014 #5

Thanks as always for your great advice. Paper Roses Oct 2014 #6

Had that problem with our old toilet Wash. state Desk Jet Oct 2014 #7

Whn draining the tank to do work on the parts inside: Thor_MN Nov 2014 #8