How do I easily stop the huge Bubble that forms everytime I flush the toilet?
Question:I installed a brand new toilet. It was a little complicated because the previous toilet was old and so the toilet flange was not in the right spot. It was 11" from the wall where as standard toilets are 12" now.
Even though the new toilet wasnt right, I had no choice but to try to install it anyways. I needed a toilet and couldnt wait to special order the smaller one. I didnt want to change the plumbing and couldnt move the wall either. So I installed it and shifted the bowl so that the tank fit on (The seal from the tank doesnt sit perfectly in the bowl tho)
I finished hooking it all up and the toilet works. It doesnt leak anywhere surprisingly. The only problem is that when I flush the toilet it makes a huge bubble before the water goes down. If the handle is pushed down very slowly, there will be no huge bubble (only a few tiny ones - which I dont mind) and it will flush just fine.
Anyway to easily fix this?
Thanks
Answers:
Go back to where you bought the pan and explain your problem. Failing that call a plumber, and he may be able to explain what went wrong without you having to pay call-out fees.
you may have not connected an air vent.
air vent will help the toilet flush smoothly without bubbles as you may say.
if you have connected it to an air vent, then, your air vent may have been clogged as you replace your water closet
clean the air vent, if you dont know how to do so, look for a plumber.
good luck
Well first ask your father to destr0y (with a zero, thank you very much) your cats dog house and use the splinters of wood too poke the bubble until it says, " ALRIGHT!!" and you then ,as quickly as you can, scream "Jigglezandwigglez" into a stapler. After that your toilet should make a turtle noise every 5 minutes or so. After about 1276 turtle noises sing "Stairway to Heaven" and dance with your hat on backwardz,...yo....
Take the toilet back off and set it in the correct position, even if that means moving the flange.
Anything else is asking for trouble down the road. Just take your time, and do it right. Your half-assed solution has produced a half-assed result. Now your toilet sort-of works, just like you sort-of installed it correctly. Sort of.
Sorry, but in the end, that's what has to happen.
They make offset toilet flanges that you can install. If you have a bubble, that means that you have air somewhere in the system. Since you did not center your toilet on the flange, chances are it is not sealed as it should be.
You will need to take the toilet back off, and line up the bowl the way it was when you brought it home. The alignment is not correct, and unless your previous toilet was doing the bubbling, I doubt it is a blocked vent.
Why did you replace the older toilet? Was it because it would not flush properly or leaked?
They do make off set flanges where you can get this new toilet to work, but I am wondering if you didn't have an underlying problem with the other toilet.
If your first toilet was acting if it was blocked, or was bubbling, then the root problem could be the vent. You didn't mention why you were replacing it, so I am just making assumptions.
The reason it doesn't make a large bubble when you flush it slowly is because you are allowing it time to vent, and flow.
Send me an e-mail if you like, or if you continue to have issues.
Good luck!
You are getting air in there somehow, so you could consider " hunting it down" and a silicon sealer.
Or a not so conventional fix would be to rig a pretty strong spring in the tank to prevent the handle from being pushed down to fast.
Did the original toilet get this air in it? If so then it could be something with the exhaust system's vent pipe...might be a partial block causing air to backup through your toilet...
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