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Halfunit
Moderator
09-02-2001
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 3:41 pm
Calling all plumbers! I have a one year old toilet that has started to run for a very brief duration, ONLY when another source of running water is turned off. For example, if you fill up your drinking glass with water from the kitchen sink and then turn off the faucet, the toilet runs for 4 seconds. Finish your shower and turn the water off, the toilet runs. Wash your hands and turn the water off, the toilet runs. It flushes normal when the handle is used. Is there some sort of back pressure going on or an adjustment I need to make? And why would this start suddenly? Signed, Whiney Water Woes
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 3:52 pm
Dear Whiney Water Woes, It sounds like you may have goblins or poltergeists in your plumbing? Just kidding ya. lol Good luck figuring this out. Sorry, I am not a plumber. Sincerely, Rosie, The Riveter
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 4:08 pm
Dear Whiney Water Woes! It does sound like a psi issue. I don't have the answer, but there is a plumber website where you can ask those questions and get expert answers from more than one plumber! Click Right Here! Hope I'm Half-right! Grace the tipster
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 4:09 pm

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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 4:20 pm
Dear Whiney Water Woes, Where are the kitties when this happens? 
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Halfunit
Moderator
09-02-2001
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 4:57 pm
I'll tell ya... you two put a smile on my face. This is just not my day with water. I have a 5 gallon water cooler in the kitchen. Unbeknownst to me, it leaked 4½ gallons all over the kitchen floor, down the basement steps and right into the litterbox. Do you know what happens when that much water enters a tub of clumping cat litter? It turns into paste! It took 2 hours, but we're all cleaned up now and the cats wrote their names in the paste before it hardened... like cement! That's where the cats are, lol! Thanks for the link - I'm off to educate myself!
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 5:18 pm
Gee that must have taken a while. Bet the furbabies didn't like their box being used that way. Disgusting! They must have been trying to track the guilty party
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 5:29 pm
Lol Gracie. We just knew the kitties would be involved in this caper. No pictures?
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 7:51 pm
Hey Half? You do know that kitty litter is made out of good ol' Georgia clay, right? You could make a vase out of it, one that holds water, and it would last you forever.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 9:18 pm
Gracie, would it hold leaking kitchen jug water? Bwahahahaha!!! Hey, Half, be sure to post what you find out. Our toilet that Bigdog put in occasionally decides to mysteriously put in a little water. I am sure he secretly knows what it is all about, but we have not really discussed it other than for him to say the mysterious water running when nobody is up running water is the toilet and not to worry about it.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 5:21 am
Well they make some newer toilet models to 'refresh' on purpose, but Half's model must either be that kind and only just started doing its job, or it's not that kind and has a psi effect going on! They put in all new water piping in our neighborhood a couple of years ago, promising better water pressure for everyone, but I swear it hasn't improved at all. Even in the middle of the night when no one is using water there's not enough pressure. Do you suppose they've found a way to put it on a timer?
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 5:26 am
Whiney, This site has your exact question asked and answered by a plumber: http://www.terrylove.com/wwwboard/messages2/49622.html Good luck!
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Halfunit
Moderator
09-02-2001
| Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 7:47 am
Dang, Hukd! You're good! I ended up asking the same question on the site that Grace provided a link for. 1/2's Question The guy there said it's the check valve, so I'll start from there, I guess. 
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 7:49 am
Wow, I'm happy you got such a quick response from Grace's site! Sounds like a pretty easy fix! I'm proud of you for becoming a "Junior Member" on that website, hee hee
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 7:56 am
Half...I'll tell you this...you have my ultimate admiration...because I would start with the yellow pages 
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Halfunit
Moderator
09-02-2001
| Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 8:07 am
lol, Scoot - I'm actually mad because the toilet was installed in August of last year. This shouldn't be happening, but if it was going to happen, why didn't it happen while it was under that one year warranty period??!!?? Actually, I think I may have been the one to aggravate the situation. I started using bleach tabs in the tank a few months ago, and I've been reading that it might not be a good idea to do that with newer toilets and all of their plastic parts. Whoops.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 1:57 pm
Yippee on the quick response! Good luck Halfixinit!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 4:42 pm
Way to go, halfunit, the plumber's little helper.
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