This may sound stupid, but the toilet in my apartment always has too much water in it, and I think there is supposed to be a way to change how much water is in it, but I don't know how! Can anyone help me figure out to make it have less water in the bowl all the time?
2006-08-14 08:53:50 · 22 answers · asked by Deja Entendu 4 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
bricks in the tank
2006-08-14 08:57:28 · answer #1 · answered by Padme 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depending how much water you want to take out, filling empty bottles with water works great as a quick fix.
Bricks tend to be to heavy and can break the toilet, not too mention they fall apart in the standing water and can clog plumbing.
The real adjustment depends on the specific type of toilet you have, but most have a floating system, which by loosening or tightening a screw controls where the floater sits, and when water rises to the point of the floater, it shuts off, thus leaving a lower amount of water in your tank, and thus less water in the bowl with each flush.
2006-08-14 08:59:59 · answer #2 · answered by Mick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bowl water cannot be changed...it is governed by the built in trap of the toilet. You can put a brick in the tank to make the tank hold less water, but you have to make sure there is enough water to flush the toilet...experiment. Most people have the opposite problem with the newer toilets not having enough water in the bowl. I assume you mean the water that you can see when you lift the lid to use the toilet...no that cannot be changed. Good luck
2006-08-14 08:59:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most have adjustable floaters.. the lower the floater is, the lesser the amount of water that flushes the toilet and refills the bowl. If it isn't adjustable do as some of the others have suggested by using somethin to displace the water in the tank such as a brick or a keep sake from a ex-boyfriend that doesn't float.
2006-08-14 16:07:00 · answer #4 · answered by George A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use a straw and drink some of the water or get a big dog and he will lap it up. You cannot change the weir (the top of the water seal) level. It's part of the design. If it bothers you so much buy a new toilet or close the lid.
The tank is a DIFFERENT story. Just bend the float arm, or adjust the float level if you have a Fluidmaster.
2006-08-18 03:17:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put a plastic bottle filled with water into the tank. That should keep the volume of water draine for each flush down, but not the overall water level. It works in the same principle as a piece brick/other heavy stuff, but finding an empty bottle and adjusting the displaced volume are easier.
This method was in a save-water campaign a few years back.
2006-08-14 10:17:44 · answer #6 · answered by mcmurz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Open the tank, and look on the circulate pump. The water shuts of whilst flushed whilst the tank refills to a component the place the change, which floats on water, rises up and cuts of the water. There must be a fashion in which you would be able to the two elongate the pump itself, or greater the change so as that it demands greater water to push the change, maximum lavatories I relatively have seen might nicely be adjusted via twisting the pump, which ought to elongate the peak of the pump and hence reason the water point mandatory to push the floating change up, consequently increasing the water point interior the bowl as nicely.
2016-12-11 08:36:10 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put bricks or rocks in the tank. Or, use anything that sinks and takes up some space. The floater will still cut off the water running into the tank at the same time, but there will be less water once its done filling up. Thats what most people do. Good luck.
2006-08-14 08:56:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you have too much water in the bowl there's nothing you can do to change it. It's designed to be at the level of the trap cast into the back. You have to replace the toilet with a more modern one designed to save water. Or learn to live with splash back.
2006-08-14 09:04:41 · answer #9 · answered by annchen121 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy a larger float. It will stop the water from filling up in the tank that much sooner.
It's easy to disconnect. The 'ball' or float usually screws off. Take the ball to the Home Depot or your nearest plumbing supply store and tell them you want a bigger float to stop the water from Filling up your tank.
Or you could bend the line on the float, downward. Just be very careful.
2006-08-14 09:00:10 · answer #10 · answered by marnefirstinfantry 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bend the arm of the floater so the float is closer to the bottom. That will shut off the refill valve with less water in the tank.
2006-08-14 09:00:06 · answer #11 · answered by cirestan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋