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Replace toilet in CA due to mineral build-up??
There is a much simpler solution. Take a coat hanger, and cut the
curved top off. use the hanger to reach up under the rim and poke it through the holes. Give it a good wiggle and move to the next. I had to do this at my house, and it worked great. dave Eric Lee Green wrote: In article , F/B Ehrhardt ruminated: Hello, My brother-in-law lives north of San Diego. One of his toilets doesn't flush "vigorously;" it won't empty out the solids. Yuk. A plumber diagnosed the problem as partial clogging of the slots just under the rim, that direct water from the tank into the bowl. He chalked this up to urine (?) and/or minerals in the water. Credible. I have seen this happen with the low-flush toilets in particular, in extremely hard-water areas. What experience or credibility do you give to this theory? Have you had to replace a toilet for that reason? Is there a workaround that someone quite UN-handy could attempt? Usual solution: 1) Turn off water to the toilet (generally a knob to the bottom left of the toilet). 2) Flush toilet to empty tank. (And verify that no more water will be coming in). 3) Holding the flapper thing open, pour a whole gallon jug of vinegar down the hole at the bottom of the toilet tank. The vinegar *MAY* dissolve the mineral deposits. Or maybe not. I've read where someone else thickened vinegar (perhaps with corn starch) and applied it into the holes using one of those little orthodontic dental brushes and a dentist's mirror (both of which you can get at a drugstore). No word on whether that succeeded. If all your tricks with vinegar fail, it just may be too darned clogged up to save. Invest in a water softener, and *THEN* upgrade the toilet. (Doing it the other way around will be a waste of money, because the hard water will just clog up the holes in the toilet again). BTW, the reason the low-flush toilets are so succeptible to this problem is because their holes are smaller in order to get better velocity out of the smaller amount of water that they're given to work with. I've seen a 40 year old high-water-use toilet in a hard water area that worked fine, and a 4 year old low-water-use toilet only a half-block away where the holes were already too clogged to work well. -- Eric Lee Green EMAIL: WEB: http://badtux.org There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. - Mark Twain |
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