Saving Money with your Toilets

I just wanted to pass this idea along. I'm not trying to make this sound disgusting. If you have ever taken your tank cover off of the back of your toilet, you probably have seen the fill line marked on the back. Did you know that you don't really need the toilet to fill to that line? I adjusted my toilet to a lower level, flushing it after each adjustment, allowing it to fill, then flush it again until it was just enough to make the water go down. I also put toilet paper in to make sure it would take everything. After a couple of days, I finally got it to where it flushes everything down with less water. The water level in my toilets is now 3 inches below the fill line. I found that by lowering the water level in the tank to a level where the toilet takes all of its contents down, I was able to save about 20 to 30 gallons of water a month. This adjustment meant a lower water bill.

One other thing. Stop using those automatic cleaning tablets in your tank. They are so harsh that they eat away at all the rubber seals inside your toilet eventually causing a leak. Its cheaper to clean the toilet bowl by hand rather than calling in a plumber to fix a leak. If you want to use an automatic toilet cleaner, by one that connects to the water supply line that fills the toilet bowl. Kaboom has one of these. The unit that contains the cleaning agent hangs on the back of your toilet inside the tank. It works through the line that fills the toilet bowl, (That little tube going from the filling mechanism and into the overflow pipe, that tube that sticks up out of the water.) These automatic cleaners have 2 tubes, one comes from the float mechanism and through the cleaning unit with the cleaning agent. The other comes off the other side of the automatic cleaner and into the overflow pipe. If you use this, it will keep the cleaner out of the tank water saving the rubber seals. The nice thing about them is they only apply the cleaning agent when you flush, unlike the tablets that always release their cleaning agent. They can last for about 3 to 4 months depending on how often you flush your toilets.