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canuckguy · 09-16-2005, 05:55 AM

I have an old toilet in my laundry room that I would like to make run on less water. The toilet is barely used and I would like to make it run on less water for the savings in cost and its just a waste of water. Its an older style toilet so I tried adjusting the float so it was allow the lowest rise of water in the tank. It still fills up a ton of water in the bowl. So next I tried adding filler to the tank, bags of sand. That worked in one sense, the water now is very low in the toilet, but when you go to flush the crapper it takes two flushes to empty the bowl.
When you flush the first time it fills up the bowl but does not empty, the second time you flush it then empties the bowl. Kinda defeats the purpose of low flow.
Is it possible that the toilet just needs a high level of water to operate or does anyone know of any tips for this? thanks again.

09-16-2005, 05:55 AM	#1 (permalink)
canuckguy I read your emails. Location: earth	making an old toilet low flow I have an old toilet in my laundry room that I would like to make run on less water. The toilet is barely used and I would like to make it run on less water for the savings in cost and its just a waste of water. Its an older style toilet so I tried adjusting the float so it was allow the lowest rise of water in the tank. It still fills up a ton of water in the bowl. So next I tried adding filler to the tank, bags of sand. That worked in one sense, the water now is very low in the toilet, but when you go to flush the crapper it takes two flushes to empty the bowl. When you flush the first time it fills up the bowl but does not empty, the second time you flush it then empties the bowl. Kinda defeats the purpose of low flow. Is it possible that the toilet just needs a high level of water to operate or does anyone know of any tips for this? thanks again.