2006-10-12 08:55:46 · 6 answers · asked by Soul Survivor 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
the top of the bowl is limed up. got to town and get some GOOD rubber gloves, some goggles some baking soda and a gallon of muratic acid.
turn off the water to the toilet, flush the tank, take off the lid, and take off the korky(flapper). get a drinking glass half full of water and put two spoons of baking soda in it and stir it up. this is in case you get acid in your eye. if you get it on your skin, just dump baking soda directly on it.
put on your goggles and gloves and open the window cause muratic acid eating lime smells like rotten eggs.
pour a quart or two of acid down the hole that the korky sits on.
let it set for five minutes or so and scrub the bowl with a bowl brush. especially the top of the bowl, where the water runs in from.
tale a nail or a piece of wire and "rod out" the holes.
pour the rest of the muratic acid down the hole
wait five more minutes and do the cleaning parts again
turn the water on and let it run for a minute. put the korky back in and the lid back on....your toilet is good as new for $5
Possum
2006-10-12 14:57:19 · answer #1 · answered by hillbilly named Possum 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What drains slowly, the tank into the bowl or the bowl into the sewer line? If it's the tank into the bowl (this is through the flapper valve), then you have one of two possibilities. One is that something went down the flapper hole from the tank and even though you can't see it, it's blocking part of the flow from the tank to the bowl. You might be able to reach down with something from the tank side and fish it out, or remove the tank and see if you can fish it out then. Second possibility is that you have soo much build up in the holes around the upper inside edge of the bowl that they are blocked off and not allowing water to enter the bowl. You can try to rod them out from the inside of the bowl, may or may not work.
If it's the bowl that is filling up and then draining slow, you either have a clogged sewer line (snake it out), a clogged vent line (snake it out too) or a septic system that is full (have it pumped out).
2006-10-12 10:27:28 · answer #2 · answered by Jeffrey S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the flapper is indeed up then only 2 things could cause slow darinage: the commode was poorly piped to drain, or the line is stopped up. If it has drained well in the past then you probably do have a plugged sewer line. Note, however, that the vent line could be stopped up above and not alloweing it to vent.
2006-10-12 09:57:43 · answer #3 · answered by daveduncan40 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check the length of the chain connecting the drain plug to the flapper. If it is too long, when you push the handle down, it's not short enough to lift the "stopper high enough to allow the water to flow freely down the drain. If it's not your chain length, I'm not sure what else it could be. Hope this helps!
2006-10-12 09:08:18 · answer #4 · answered by lil_rowdy1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Flappers wear out, usually you can see black at bottom of tank from flapper. Just change it, its not hard to do or expensive.
I cant beleive people tell you to flush chemicles to solve slow leak at flapper. Seems some people are from another planet.
2006-10-12 15:02:23 · answer #5 · answered by Stop NWO 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get those drain cleansers or call a plumber.
2006-10-12 08:57:53 · answer #6 · answered by Wite Out 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋