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Still have black crystals floating around in toilet
I took the advice of someone on this forum and unscrewed the line at
the bottom of the toilet and flushed out the line into a bucket. I probably flushed out about 20 gallons of water. With each fill of the bucket there were black rocks{iron sulfide?} although less as i flushed out more water.My original problem was the toilet wouldn't stop. I discovered these rocks were under the rubber seal in the Fluidmaster,preventing the toiulet from stopping.I have copper lines so i don't think it could be a corrosion problem. Could these rocks be coming through the city pipes? If so, how would they be able to keep it from coming through my lines? |
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Still have black crystals floating around in toilet
Take a sample to the city water dept. or call them to come
to your house to analyze the water. Frank wrote in message oups.com... I took the advice of someone on this forum and unscrewed the line at the bottom of the toilet and flushed out the line into a bucket. I probably flushed out about 20 gallons of water. With each fill of the bucket there were black rocks{iron sulfide?} although less as i flushed out more water.My original problem was the toilet wouldn't stop. I discovered these rocks were under the rubber seal in the Fluidmaster,preventing the toiulet from stopping.I have copper lines so i don't think it could be a corrosion problem. Could these rocks be coming through the city pipes? If so, how would they be able to keep it from coming through my lines? |
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Still have black crystals floating around in toilet
Thanks Frank- I didn't think of that. I will call the city and tell
them about the problem. . Frank K. wrote: Take a sample to the city water dept. or call them to come to your house to analyze the water. Frank wrote in message oups.com... I took the advice of someone on this forum and unscrewed the line at the bottom of the toilet and flushed out the line into a bucket. I probably flushed out about 20 gallons of water. With each fill of the bucket there were black rocks{iron sulfide?} although less as i flushed out more water.My original problem was the toilet wouldn't stop. I discovered these rocks were under the rubber seal in the Fluidmaster,preventing the toiulet from stopping.I have copper lines so i don't think it could be a corrosion problem. Could these rocks be coming through the city pipes? If so, how would they be able to keep it from coming through my lines? |
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Still have black crystals floating around in toilet
wrote in message Could these rocks be coming through the city pipes? If so, how would they be able to keep it from coming through my lines? Perhaps you did not seem my original post on this. Yes, it can be from the city water. Yes, they are easily stopped with a filter in the line. |
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