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As I was driving to work today, a friend called me to ask for some advice on fixing his toilet. He told me that it wasn't flushing very well and that all the waste was not going down the drain. I thought of a couple of problems: a partial blockage, a blocked vent, or a flapper problem. I asked him if he could hold the toilet handle down and not let it up. He said it was a good flush and everything went down the drain.
It sounded to me like a toilet flapper problem and that the flapper was not staying up long enough to allow enough water to flow out of the tank and into the bowl. I told him he could try to shorten the length of the chain between the flapper and the handle by 1 link. He said he tried this but that the flapper became cockeyed.
The answer is a "dial-a-flush" toilet flapper. This product allows you to control how long the flapper stays lifted off of the tank, and so you can control how much water goes into the toilet bowl, giving you a good flush. It is simply a replacement flapper with a small dial on the top of it. This flapper operates by allowing a bladder on the flapper to fill with air and, depending on the setting of the dial, allows air to escape from this bladder for a quick flush or large flush. Simply attach it, adjust the dial and flush your troubles away.
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