What causes a toilet to run or a recurrent sound of water filling up in the tank? Does anyone know a quick fix?

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Sometimes it's that arm inside with the hollow ball on it. (I don't know the plumbing terms! ).

The gasket that the ball is attached to isn't closing up the drain hole at the bottom, I think it is. Try shaking the flusher handle, or wiggling that arm, and see if you can stop it from running that way. Here is a video about it (a nasty termite commercial is first!

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Sometimes you can twist the thing - whatever its called - and tighten it since it's worked loose from repeated flushing. There's a little notched rubber apparatus on the understand of the tank - try twisting it. That's just a temporary fix though and eventually you'll going to have to replace the float valve.

If you follow directions, you can do it yourself. And you don't need any tools to do it. They run about $10 at Wal-Mart and it takes about 10 - 15 minutes to do it.

Choice #3: Often the problem is a leaky black gasket inside the tank that covers the hole where the water rushes into the bowl to flush. Pull up on the wire holding the gasket and let the toilet flush itself. Feel around the bottom of the gasket to see if there are grains of minerals.

You hand will get black, but it is just rubber deposits and washes right off. Put a thin coat of vaseline around the bottom of the gasket where it will improve the seal over the hole leading into the tank. Let the tank refill; flush; listen to see if you hear the leak or it seeps out enough to need to refill.

This will work for quite awhile. Plan to replace the black flapper gasket with a similar whole new piece when the problem recurs and you get tired of adding vaseline.

Lift the lid and look at the water level in the tank. I have seen a lot where the fill valve was not adjusted correctly; and so it would overfill, and water would escape down the overflow tube. Usually, there was a simple adjustment that fixed this.

After that; the next place to look, as I think someone has already said, is whether the flush valve is leaking.

" "My toilet tank is slowly losing water. The water isn't coming out of the tank. I replaced the flapper, not fixed.

" "My toilet hums when I flush it. What do I do to fix it?

The tank fills up, then it starts to drain, the ball drops and it starts to flush again.

My toilet tank is slowly losing water. The water isn't coming out of the tank. I replaced the flapper, not fixed.

My toilet hums when I flush it. What do I do to fix it?

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