Toilets: Green Bath

Before we moved in we knew that our toilet situation needed help. As my dad so gently put it, we desperately needed a better place to put all our crap. We guessed that our master bath toilet needed to be re-seated and the family bath (aka green bath) toilet needed some new inner parts. Here's how it the green bath toilet got fixed and updated.

As you can see, "Green Bath" is an appropriate name

The problem was that the toilet would continually fill until the tank overflowed. Then it would keep overflowing. There also was a small leak somewhere that we couldn't identify. Finally, the whole toilet seems to be original to the house, meaning it was a far cry from low flow.

We bought an all in one flapper kit from our favorite hardware store, OSH (Orchard Supply Hardware.) We also bought a 1flush/2flush retro grade kit. Mark replaced the flapper, float, chain, valvue and pretty much every working part inside the tank. After a few adjustments, we had a working non-overflowing toilet!

Then he installed the low flow flusher, which is a pretty cool thing. It fit right into our old toilet (I feel certain Mark made an effort to buy one that would fit) and you calibrate it for how big of a flush you want for your big and little flushes. Now we can flush without wondering if we're losing 5 gallons of water per flush!

Modern plumbing meets original charm!

However, after replacing all of those parts, there was still a small leak. Mark turned off the water to the toilet, took the hoses that attached to the wall to OSH, got some local friendly advice, and replaced them. Voila! The green bath now has a non-overflowing, water saving, non-leaky toilet. Winner!