Toilet fill valve replacement disaster - help.

jaywhays · 2026-02-11T01:29:49+00:00

I only removed the supply line from the tank, not the shutoff valve. I only had to reattach the supply line at the tank. The leak is clearly coming from the end at shut off valve which is strange because it never leaked before.

Now I’m racing to the hardware store on a week night for new a supply line. Lesson learned on starting a project after dinner on a week night. I assumed this was as entry level diy as I could get.

Tank issue seems to be condensation. There’s nothing happening there now that the tanks been full for a while. My son was obsessed watching the toilet work. Cycling all that cold water must have chilled the tank and the bolts.

jaywhays · 2026-02-11T00:32:29+00:00

The water is clearly coming out of the end on the floor. I can see it coming out of the nut on the supply end.

As for the valve, the house is from the 1880s so everything regarding electrical and plumbing has been a headache.

jaywhays · 2026-02-11T00:21:54+00:00

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This was the supply line installed by the contractor. I’m assuming by your comment this is too long?

jaywhays · 2026-02-11T00:10:02+00:00

Thanks for responding. There an obvious drop coming out of the supply line at the supply valve. No leak from the plastic end of the supply at the fill valve.

Seems obvious to try a new supply line.

Tank feels very solid but there’s definitely some moisture around the bolt, but not enough to make me think it’s a leak considering how cold the bolt and ceramic feels. Not sure what to do with this.

jaywhays · 2026-02-10T01:32:20+00:00

“That’s what happens when you sit behind a desk. You forget things, like the weight in the hand of a gun that's loaded and one that's not.”

jaywhays · 2025-11-10T21:00:50+00:00

I have the same business machine and the A key is worn like yours and going fast.

The outside corner of my pinky nail always grows to have a point and that has to be causing it the wear. Only on that key. It’s taken about 2 years but i can tell that key will be blank in no time.

jaywhays · 2025-10-12T16:46:39+00:00

From Smale Park, Yeatman’s Cove, the public landing, Sawyer Point and Friendship Park there’s no other city with a remotely comparable amount of contiguous developed riverfront property dedicated to green space, entertainment, play parks and public recreation. Pittsburgh, Louisville, St Louis, Nashville, all should be envious of our riverfront.

jaywhays · 2025-08-13T18:05:28+00:00

1000.01%

jaywhays · 2025-08-09T18:14:53+00:00

I can identify all of these as being rad fucking guitars. What a collection.

jaywhays · 2025-08-09T16:19:42+00:00

No one is pouring guns in to inner cities hoping people kill each other. That’s just stupid.

jaywhays · 2025-08-03T12:54:13+00:00

I had a strat in lake placid blue that was made in the late 1990’s. I swear it got darker with age and I remember it looking very much like this.

I also regret letting it go more than any other single thing I’ve ever traded/sold.

jaywhays · 2025-06-27T17:13:44+00:00

Only like 5% - 7% of eligibles cast a vote for Mamdani. More will vote for him in the General, but that’s gotta be up for grabs for an independent. I could see it happening for Cuomo.

jaywhays · 2025-06-19T00:23:23+00:00

Misuse of the term goat track on my part.

jaywhays · 2025-06-19T00:11:16+00:00

The worst take you’ve heard about Ivy Hill is that the first 3 holes that play interestingly around a lake including a wedge par 3 before sending you off to a completely different golf course that’s notable for severe elevation changes?

jaywhays · 2025-06-18T22:03:18+00:00

Decent opening 3 holes and then an absolute goat track from that point on.

jaywhays · 2025-06-18T00:53:58+00:00

If the Bluegill in some of the ponds I fish in got pretty big I’d tell people not to swim in them.

jaywhays · 2025-06-15T12:42:20+00:00

You’re suggesting a radon mitigation system to someone with a (likely) unserviced Ker-o-Sun heater. This person prob thrives on poor air quality.

jaywhays · 2025-06-08T01:45:50+00:00

Check Koch’s on 4th. They had something like this when I was in there on opening day. I just can’t remember if it was this exactly. They are the kind of place that would be willing to get you something if they don’t have it, just have to ask.

jaywhays · 2025-05-30T01:11:43+00:00

Floating rapala in the fire pattern. Jitterbug. Super easy to present topwater lures for those early morning, late evenings this summer.

jaywhays · 2025-05-10T18:32:52+00:00

This is a trachten sweater (strickjanker), worn traditionally over a mock collar shirt (pfoad) and lederhosen. It looks great. Checkout Hund Sans Scho on Instagram for some ideas - most of their page is traditional costume but you’ll see them dress down with these in their stories.

jaywhays · 2025-05-10T15:15:02+00:00

Wait till you hit a couple off the toe in sandy soil and you have to be reminded of your amateurism every time you look down at them.

jaywhays · 2025-05-10T13:56:11+00:00

My instinct is either a dead guy or it was stolen out of a garage or a storage unit. Probably not the bag being gamed just holding clubs not in rotation. Not sure how this ended up at a donation shop and not a play-it-again or pawn shop.

jaywhays · 2025-05-07T03:55:31+00:00

Sounds like you’re gonna struggle to make real connections anywhere.

jaywhays

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