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High tank toilet issues
I have an 1856 house with a jerry-built high-hung toilet in a second-floor bathroom. It looks like a previous owner took at Standard "Modernus" and extended the pipe through the wall and hung the tank four feet above the bowl and surrounded it with a wooden box. He then created a handle out of one piece of metal and attached a pull chain. He rigged an elaborate system of wires and bolts around the handle inside the tank for the perfect balance. All was well until the wires rusted and the bolts fell off. Since then the stopper has never properly closed. Despite having three different plumbers work with it, I can not get the toilet to stop running unless I climb a step ladder and physically place the stopper in its place.
Should I try to re-work the innards? Or should I rip the whole thing out of the wall and put in a new pull-handle toilet?
I have an 1856 house with a jerry-built high-hung toilet in a second-floor bathroom. It looks like a previous owner took at Standard "Modernus" and extended the pipe through the wall and hung the tank four feet above the bowl and surrounded it with a wooden box. He then created a handle out of one piece of metal and attached a pull chain. He rigged an elaborate system of wires and bolts around the handle inside the tank for the perfect balance. All was well until the wires rusted and the bolts fell off. Since then the stopper has never properly closed. Despite having three different plumbers work with it, I can not get the toilet to stop running unless I climb a step ladder and physically place the stopper in its place.
Should I try to re-work the innards? Or should I rip the whole thing out of the wall and put in a new pull-handle toilet?
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