23
Took me 3 hours to fix a $12 leaky toilet flapper
I heard a faint hissing from my bathroom for weeks and ignored it. Finally checked the water bill and saw it jumped $18 from last month. Figured it was the toilet flapper, easy fix right? I went to Ace in town and grabbed a generic one for $12. Took it home, installed it in 10 minutes, but the toilet kept running. Spent the next 2.5 hours taking it apart and putting it back together three times. Turns out the chain was too long and getting caught under the flapper. Trimmed it with scissors and it worked perfect after that. Has anyone else spent hours on a simple home fix that should have taken 10 minutes?
3 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In3 Comments
the_amy28d ago
The funny thing is, this kind of thing happens all the time in life. We assume the easy fix will be the quick one, but reality always throws in one extra step you didn't plan for. It's like how changing a lightbulb can turn into rewiring the whole fixture if you're unlucky (or stubborn like me).
9
clairen8528d ago
Three hours on a flapper is insane, I would have given up after the first try.
3
Three hours on a flapper? That's a rookie number. Try three hours on a toilet handle that turns out to be a completely different model than what the internet told you. Then you get to drive to three different hardware stores. By the end you're just hoping the thing flushes itself out of shame.
6