Leaking Toilet Repairs

leaking toilet repairs

What Are Leaking Toilets and Cisterns?

For many people, the first sign of a leaking toilet is a pool of water on the floor. On closer inspection, you may find moisture on the side of the toilet bowl or the toilet cistern.  Although it may, at first, look like condensation, a leaking toilet bowl or a leaking toilet cistern can be a serious problem that prevents your toilet from flushing or refilling properly and can cause water damage to your bathroom floor. In fact, the water may be escaping from the cistern from a number of places. The inlet or outlet valve may be dripping.

The cause of the leaking toilet might be problems with the toilet bowl itself. The flush pipe may be cracked and leaking. Tears or holes in the rubber of the flush cone can also be a problem, as can a leaking pipe or stainless steel hose. In some cases, you may even find a crack in the body of the toilet bowl itself.

What Causes Leaking Cisterns?

A toilet is a deceptively complex appliance and a leaking toilet may be suffering from a number of ailments. In many cases, deterioration is unavoidable due to the toilet’s constant exposure to moving water. Many small rubber washers and other rubber components may begin to break down over time.

Plumbing parts, such as a flush value, toilet tank and the flapper, suffer similar deterioration and may become brittle and prone to breakage. Debris in the water will also eventually wear down the plastic seats. This can be a particular problem if your water is rich in calcium and minerals, which may become the cause of your leaking toilet.

How Can A Homeowner Avoid Getting Leaking Cisterns or Leaking Toilets?

There are a number of things you can do to prevent the deterioration of your toilet cistern. While filtering hard water and cleaning your toilet regularly can help keep it in top shape, it is important to replace the small parts regularly.

Any part that is prone to wear should be replaced every five years. You should pay particular attention to the rubbers on the inlet and outlet valve, the flush cone rubber and the stainless steel hose. Having an expert service your toilet, and offer general advice, can also stop a leaking toilet before it becomes a problem.

What Are the Conventional Ways of Fixing Leaking Cisterns or Leaking Toilets?

In most cases, a repair technician is not called until after the toilet is already leaking. Most repairs focus on fixing the current leak. While this is great in the short term, it does not prevent future leaks and can result in the need for costly repairs not far down the road.

How Does Jim Paris Plumbing Go About Fixing Leaking Cisterns or Leaking Toilets?

Like a conventional repair technician, we will first fix the leak at hand. Unlike other plumbers, however, we will look over your whole appliance and offer advice that can help prevent a leaking toilet in the future. We will tell you if the other rubbers are getting too old and will advise you on which parts will soon need to be replaced.

We can also give you advice if you are interested in additional features. A new tank, for example, will fill up quickly and will run quietly. We will provide you with a comprehensive list of the work that you need done, and we will provide price quotes as well. In the end, however, the choice is yours and we will do nothing but your cistern repair until you say the word.

We give you all the options on repairs and use parts that we have tested and we know will work, are of good quality and will last.

Some plumbers turn a leaking toilet into a big job… we don’t! Our aim is not to create a big job, but to serve your interests.

We are cheaper than many other plumbers because we:

  • Do not charge a callout fee.
  • Carry nearly all the parts we need in our trucks, so the job is completed then and there.
  • Have over 20 years experience in fixing leaking toilets and leaking cisterns, so we know what to do
  • Have rates that start from just $44 plus parts, in our service suburbs of St George and the Sutherland Shire.

 

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