The Toilet Tank Trick

weiii

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David

Toilets are awesome.

PMeans123

I'e done extensive research on this technique and many more at the link below. Be for your try the bottle trick above, try adjusting how much water enters your tank before the refill valve closes. You can do this by a few methods depending on what's inside your tank. If you have a ball float on an arm, then you can adjust a screw where there rod is attached to lower or raise the float. The float determines your desired tank water level. If you have the other common type of refill valve, where the float is on a vertical tube, you can lower or raise the float by adjusting a spring clip on a vertical rod. Try those approaches first, then try the one above it that doesn't do it. For more see my article: http://doverprojects.blogspot.com/2009/01/toilet-tank-water-savers.html

ds7

I agree with Miles the Plumber. My toilet got blocked several times as a result of me putting a container of water in the cistern. As a plumber who eventually explained the problem said, it's both the 'wieght' and the volume of the water that's needed to flush older toilets. Use the dual system instead. The container in the cistern is a false economy - you'll end up with bills to get the plumber in to clear the blockages.

Cianmc1

Lol....americans and their water bills......Waters free here in ireland !!

fitnut

This is not necessary on most toilets. Most fill valves on toilet tanks include a tank water height adjustment which controls the volume of water in the tank. Adjust the height of water in the tank to reduce volume.

tektrek

Attention all the nay sayers who want to poo poo the idea of saving water - you don't know what you are talking about irrespective of your profession. In Australia we have been using dual flush toilets for over 40 years and before that we used to use a house brick in the cistern to reduce the amount of wasted water. If the idea of a dual flush toilet is so bad as some of you seem to think how come the utilities who supply and charge for water are encouraging people to use dual flush cisterns? From a business point of view it would seem silly but then in Australia we are doing perhaps more than our bit for the environment. How about you?

jeditracker

This is a great tip and one that I am telling my friends and family about

As Miles noted above, I would not recommend this trick either. Older toilets need the amount of water they hold in order to 'do the job'. If you try to use less, you just end up using more, as you may have to flush more often. I am a distributor for Caroma's Dual Flush toilets. Caroma, an Australian company, has developed the Dual Flush system more than 20 years ago. Caroma's dual flush toilets use an avg of 0.96 gallons per flush, based on 4/1 (liquid/solid) uses a day. For more information, please contact me at ecotransitions@earthlink.net

plumber: think of the overall energy cost involved with creating the new toilet, from design to production to transportation to installation to disposal of the old one. overall, fixing what you got is what you must do! good debate though