Flush the toilet to empty all the water from the tank. Bailing out whatever water is left with a small cup, or sop it up with shop rags. Unscrew the bolts connecting the toilet tank to the bowl.

That’s because the toilet is a big water guzzler, accounting for more than 26 percent of all indoor use, says Lenora Campos, who works for TOTO USA, which makes water-smart plumbing fixtures ...

Seat Disk. T he seat disk predates the Korky flapper, so your toilet must be really old if it has a flush valve that uses one. It’s a flat rubber disk that fits over the valve opening, held in ...

Learn the best way for setting a toilet after removing your old one. ... Some older toilets use as much as 6 gallons per flush—close to four times the federal standard.

Switching over to a high-efficiency toilet, or HET for short, is one of the easiest ways to save a lot of water. New HETs have been redesigned to flush with increased power, but use less than 1.3 ...

Depending upon how old your master bathroom toilet is, it may use either 3.5 or 5.0 gpf (gallons of water per flush). The average family can save up to $100 per year in water costs by installing ...

Q:I am having a problem with one of my two 20-year-old toilets. Most of the time when I flush (holding the handle down for the entire flush cycle) the water swirls and swirls but very little of ...