How to Tell If Your Toilet Is Leaking
Some signs are obvious like water on your toilet floor, after eliminating the obvious – bad aim. Other signs are not so obvious.
- Stains around the toilet
- Dampness on the floor, or on the ceiling in room beneath a toilet
- Leaking base
- Toilet making noise
- Sewage odour from old accumulated water
- Toilet flushing on its own without handle
Let’s be honest, the toilet is the most important seat in the house. You may think your choice would be the recliner, but if you could only pick one, the toilet wins.
Constantly being in contact with water, it is common for these parts to wear out, rust and become damaged. Water is the softest thing, yet give it enough time and it will penetrate the strongest of materials.
A leaking toilet can cost you an extra $500 a year, on average. The worst case we have encountered so far cost the client an extra $1,900 compared to the previous year. That’s a lot of money and water wasted – a minor leak wastes 20L a day. Australia is in drought – every drop of water is precious!
Often a leaking toilet isn’t a difficult problem to fix. However, correctly identifying the main source of the leak is; especially if you don’t have the expertise, let alone know and understand the different components that make up a toilet, and their functions. DIY is almost always the best and cheapest solution, however, if you improperly diagnose the cause of the leaking toilet, buy materials, install them, and discover the toilet is still leaking. Not only have to lost money by replacing parts that didn’t need replacing, you’ve also lost a far more precious commodity often overlooked, time. You can never replace time.
Plumbing trade specialists, such as One Stop Trade Service, are able to quickly identify and fix any problem efficiently and fast! We don’t like a dragged-out process, and neither do you, we understand this well. It took decades of our team’s collective learning and experience to cultivate the skills to become specialists in plumbing. Our team are all equipped with vans, tools and know-how to fix any problem they encounter.