When ensuring a complete sanitation to your home, plumbing assignments such as replacing a broken toilet flush valve, cannot be left pending. This would completely hurt the sanitation schema of your toilet and bathroom. Instead of availing the services of a plumber straightaway, take the assignment in your own hands.

Before you start to remove the old flush valve and install a new one in place, make sure that the flush valve cannot be restored to it’s normal condition anyhow. If the replacement of the flush valve seems to be the only option left then move ahead with the task.

Beforehand, keep abreast all the required plumbing tools that would assist you in the proceedings of this plumbing project. Most commonly employed tools include the screwdrivers, wrenches, Teflon tape, hammer etc. Also a first-aid kit must be available as well.

Flush the toilet tank and if it doesn’t flush properly then open the lid of the tank and take out water with the help of a small container. Use a wet or dry rag to to clean out the tank completely. Once tank is emptied, locate a valve chain that is clipped to a trip arm. Detach the valve chain from the trip arm and expose the underlying setup.

Now move to the actual task of detaching the old or broken flush valve from the toilet fixture. Simply lift the valve or the flapper from the flush valve seat by detaching the clips (on the side) from the overflow tube. The method of detachment of the flush valve varies depending on the type of flush valve you’re using. Once the flush valve is completely detached from the setup, make way for a new flush valve. Make sure that the new flush valve is similar to the old one in terms of the flapper style and the adjoining clips.

Place the new flush valve on the flush valve seat and bind the clips to the fixture on both sides of the overflow tube. Once clipped, check the flapper to make sure it rests flat on the flush valve seat.

Clip the valve chain back to the trip arm in such a way that the flush flapper makes a good seal with the flush valve seat.

Turn off the water supply valve situated at the bottom of the tank. Examine the flush valve and the affiliated setup for it’s normal operation.

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