The toilet is taking too long to stop flushing, any help?
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flush the toilet then take the cover off there is a plunger style gasket on a chain that could be stuck in the open position or maybe the float is not lifting all the way
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you may need to shorten the chain on the dohicky that let out the water, the hole stays open too long try that
Try putting a gallon or half-gallon milk jug filled with water and sealed in the corner of your tank, away from the moving parts. Often the older tanks use too much water anyway. Also, check the bulb in your tank to see if it is allowing the water to rise too far before shutting off the water flow. It may need to be tweaked downward a bit to shut off quicker. And check to see if the chain is hanging up on something, not allowing the plug to set quick enough. Or you may just need to replace the mechanism altogether. The replacements aren't that expensive and fairly easy to replace.
You will need to do a little detective work. First, take off the Lid. Place it somewhere safe. Now, look at everything in the tank. you should see a plastic tube about a 1/2 inch in diameter in the center of the tank. At the bottom of this tube is a flapper. You should also see to the left a fill valve which when the toilet is flushed will activate the fill valve to fill the tank. Fill valves for most tanks come either as a brass ballcock piston valve with a rod and a copper float ball or a plastic item with a thin hose on it. the hose will feed into the plastic or brass pipe in the center of the tank.
Okay, flush the toilet. Is the flapper getting stuck? If it is, try to determine what it is getting stuck on and adjust or repair it. If that is not the problem, is the water level too high (Is the water overflowing into the tube or pipe in the center of the tank? If that is the problem, and you have a copper float ball, you need to adjust or replace the float ball of plastic fill valve. If neither of these are the problem, perhaps you meant that your tank is taking too long to refill. Check the shutoff under the tank (Coming out of the wall) Left is open.
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