This was one of the first home fix-it projects I took on, and it was so empowering to do it myself! Thank you, Mercury, for your shame-free (née joyful) tutorials!!
Ty so much for all your advise and help!! My husband dave passed away 4 months ago and I have had to navigate a 32 year old house with lots of repairs. ❤ you have saved me lots of time and money. My name is Cori and I'm so glad for you and your beautiful smile and your priceless knowledge.
My maintenance guy replaced my fill valve entirely because my original one broke, and no matter what we do the bowl doesn’t fill with the replacement, and the water pressure has ultimately vanished, and honestly it’s stressing me out because I have gastrointestinal issues and having a faulty toilet is my worst nightmare.
Edit: looking at it again, I think he replaced the entire inside?? Like the flap and fill tube and everything??
so i found this completely randomly, and this was the problem we were having 2 months ago. but its okay, the landlord had to pay for the plumber, not us….
Course if we'd known it was this easy we wouldn't have had to wait a month, and turn the toilet's water off every time we left the house so that our water bill didn't skyrocket… (which is how we found the problem in the first place.)
uh… yeah that valve type has a gasket you can replace under the cap, but often the needle is worn out. You can't replace the needle now days…or the valve seats like you used to could… but it only takes about 10 minutes to change out that valve body and its less than $20. Meanwhile, cut the water off, grab a 2 gallon bucket and flush the toilet 'manually' dumping 2, 2 gallon buckets of water down it. Works good enough until the hardware store opens. Try the replaceable gasket first, its like $3, when that don't work, replace the whole valve stack.
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This was one of the first home fix-it projects I took on, and it was so empowering to do it myself! Thank you, Mercury, for your shame-free (née joyful) tutorials!!
You know what else? I’m smart enough to know how awesome Mercury is!!! Thank you being for being my go-to handygenius.
You are the BEST
Ty so much for all your advise and help!! My husband dave passed away 4 months ago and I have had to navigate a 32 year old house with lots of repairs. ❤ you have saved me lots of time and money. My name is Cori and I'm so glad for you and your beautiful smile and your priceless knowledge.
You and Scotty Kilmer should do a pod cast together! Good maintenance advise
My toilet is filling slow, wonder if this would fix the problem? Would any brand work? Are there more than one brand??
You're always so sweetly dressed while you're bringing us this amazing information. Thank you so much for sharing yourself and your knowledge with us.
My maintenance guy replaced my fill valve entirely because my original one broke, and no matter what we do the bowl doesn’t fill with the replacement, and the water pressure has ultimately vanished, and honestly it’s stressing me out because I have gastrointestinal issues and having a faulty toilet is my worst nightmare.
Edit: looking at it again, I think he replaced the entire inside?? Like the flap and fill tube and everything??
Amazing, positive, inspirational, informative.
Four words to perfectly describe you.
I remember doing this using Google 5 years ago. I felt so proud when I did it.
Fun fact: first home fix i did myself. cost me $6 and i felt like a GENIUS!
so i found this completely randomly, and this was the problem we were having 2 months ago. but its okay, the landlord had to pay for the plumber, not us….
Course if we'd known it was this easy we wouldn't have had to wait a month, and turn the toilet's water off every time we left the house so that our water bill didn't skyrocket… (which is how we found the problem in the first place.)
Good grief I know where I'm coming when I can't just ignore something. I hope the videos are easy to search for
Your makeup today is IT
uh… yeah that valve type has a gasket you can replace under the cap, but often the needle is worn out. You can't replace the needle now days…or the valve seats like you used to could… but it only takes about 10 minutes to change out that valve body and its less than $20. Meanwhile, cut the water off, grab a 2 gallon bucket and flush the toilet 'manually' dumping 2, 2 gallon buckets of water down it. Works good enough until the hardware store opens. Try the replaceable gasket first, its like $3, when that don't work, replace the whole valve stack.
I absolutely admire you! Thank you for all you do!
The fucking chair flip at the end
Ong i love your energy, i am definitely subscribing
Did you just kick a stool with such immense panache that it spontaneously defied the laws of gravity