Martian

Confession: I'm not much of a handyman. I can do wiring and automotive stuff, but I'm pretty clueless when it comes to plumbing. Beyond replacing an aerator on a faucet or other comparatively simple tasks, I really don't know much about it.

So about two months ago our toilet broke. The handle refused to make it flush, and when I opened the tank I found that the arm had snapped cleanly in two. It was cheap plastic and I guess it's a pretty common thing; the superintendent didn't seem particularly surprised by it, at any rate. He replaced it with a metal one and for reasons that weren't entirely clear to me had to replace the chain and the flapper too. He told me at the time that the flapper would need to break in and that the toilet might 'stick' during this period, which I accepted without question.

Two months later and the toilet still sticks. It often requires us to play with the handle quite a bit before the flapper falls into place, and we frequently have to remove the tank lid to see what's going on. I'm hesitant to call the super again for something so seemingly minor but it's a bit of a pain and I'm not entirely opposed if that's what it takes.

My question is, before I go to the trouble of having him come in here to repair/replace it, is there an easy fix for this? I've tried moving the chain to a different hole on the arm, thinking that perhaps it had too much play, but that brought no joy. Is there an obvious solution here that I'm missing?

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