Housecleaning conversation:

[xiphias]

Me: Well, we have a toilet that flushes and the handle doesn't need to be jiggled to get it to stop flushing.
Lis: And it's not leaking?
Me: Nope. Not that I can see, anyway. Now I've got the toughest part of the chore.
Lis: Oh?
Me: Cleaning the mess I left in the bathroom after gutting the toilet. . .
Lis: Oh. Ew.
Me: I've been trying to think of some train of logic that would make it YOUR responsiblity to clean the bathroom tonight, but I've just been coming up.blank. Can you help?
Lis: No. Well, maybe if I have time to think, I could come up with something by tomorrow. . .
Me: Heh. I'm SO glad I've got you to help me.

Comments

[brooksmoses]

You two are deeply cute. And wonderful. Thank you for sharing, and giving me this small bit of happiness.

[mswae.livejournal.com]

Our toilet does that. How did you fix yours? We've bought a new thingy for the inside of the toilet like a dozen times and the fix never lasts.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I bought the complete Fluidmaster replacement toilet guts system and replaced EVERYTHING. I figured the flapper's probably going, or gone, but in order to get it to fit right, I'd need to replace the flush valve it connects to, and, in order to do that, I'm going to need to drain the thing and remove the entire tank anyway, so, as long as I've got to do that, I may as well replace the fill valve at the same time. Since, in the Fluidmaster system, the float is really part of the fill valve, at that point, you're really replacing everything, so you may as well replace the flush lever at the same time. So the only thing you're NOT replacing are the nuts and bolts and washers and gaskets, and since you need to remove all of those to get the tank off in the first place, it's less work to put the tank back on win new nuts and bolts and washers and gaskets, because that way, you're not fighting with corrosion while reassembling everything. And, anyway, the old nuts, some of them had siezed so badly I had to destroy them to get them off in the first place.

So, now the entire inside of the toilet is new, so I'm hoping it will last for a while.

I used this, which I bought at Home Depot.

[louisedunn.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the link! We need this. The one toilet in my house that we did not replace in the remodel has been nothing but headaches for the last year. We've replaced individual parts twice and it's still not behaving.

I really should have had that toilet replaced in the remodel. Unlike the other toilets in the house, it was not almond-colored and so I had no aesthetic issues and of course the darn thing didn't start misbehaving until after the remodel was over...sigh.

How did you destroy the old nuts?

[(Anonymous)]

I have wing nuts that have rusted and large screws inside the toilet. I don't have a lot of room to work either. How did you remove them without hurting the toilet? iscream459@aol.com

[lidiya6.livejournal.com]

I will come clean your bathroom if you come fix my toilet (I have been juggling the handle for years now...it doens't actually bother ME but guests can never seem to get the hang of it)

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I've cleaned it. But, you're Boston area, right? I could do that.

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

Now, see, I would just *assume* that if my partner fixed the toilet, I would clean the mess. Division of labor. Or something. Am I helping at all?

[cheshyre]

Yeah, but I didn't ask him to fix the toilet; he did that of his own initiative.

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

Do you both use the toilet? For me, his not being asked would be extra cause for goodwill and helping. (Which is not to say I think there's anything wrong with letting people clean up the messes they choose to make, but I'm just saying that I would feel almost obligated to pitch in.)

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I certainly hope so. . . although this WOULD explain why Lis is so insistent that I change the litterbox . . .

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

Heh. I have to say that when I moved in with cute-poet-chick and the wicked stepcat, I was careful never to take over the task of cleaning up after him, or it would've become my job. :-)