Bill The Plumber
Ssssss, that is the sound of water running. Not a bad sound when you are having a shower or filling a glass of water, but a miserable sound when it is coming from your commode. That is what happened to me yesterday. I shut the water off and took the lid off the commode.
Our toilet has one of those big black balls, and the tank fill valve was allowing the water to run. I did some fidgeting with the ball and the fill valve, and it seemed that the water stopped running. Then I fidgeted some more, and that’s what did the fill valve in. It has an adjustable plastic screw that I screwed too hard until, well you guessed it, it broke. Now the water started running fast. They don’t call me Mister Force-it for nothing!
Now, I started mumbling about having to call a plumber and spending probably $100 for a service call. Then I thought, I can do this. So, I went to the store. The fill valve piece I needed was only $7. All I needed was a wrench and a scissors to cut a tube; and after carefully following the directions, bingo, it was done. This new kind of fill valve doesn’t use the big black ball; so I not only fixed the toilet, I modernized it!
It is very satisify being able to be Mr. Handyman, after I had been Mr. Force-it and Break-it man.
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