jacoby75
First time homeowner
Hi guys,
I am new to the forums, and am a first-time homeowner. After years of renting homes with my wife and having someone else come fix everything that breaks for us, we are now trying to figure everything out on our own when things inevitably break around the home. It has been quite the eye-opening, exhausting, overwhelming, neverending experience. On the plus side, I have enjoyed the tremendous sense of satisfaction that fixing something myself brings, even when it takes 5 trips to Home Depot to do it (literally).
Most recently, we noticed that our toilet is quietly, slowly running. I have dealt with running toilets in the past, but never one like this. The house was built in the 1890's, approximately, and I have no idea how old the toilet is. It's a "Wellworth," if that tells you anything. It doesn't have the traditional bobber inside. It has a Delta "Anti-Siphon" valve. I've never seen one of these before. On the white cap of the valve it says "raise" and "lower" with corresponding arrows in different directions. But I'm not sure what I'm supposed to turn to raise and lower it. The whole white thing? One of the screws? And what would raising or lowering it do? I'm not sure why they chose to use this kind of valve. Maybe it has something to do with the age of the toilet, or maybe it was just personal preference.
Regardless, the valve appears to be slowly leaking. But it's weird. No water is running into the toilet bowl itself. There is no perceivable movement in the water in the bowl. It is just constantly running out of the little hose into the fill tube, very slowly. It never overflows, and we have left it all night to see what would happen. I don't know why it's running, or where the water is going.
Should it be doing that? Is that part of the "anti-siphon" process? Keep it running just a little bit so that it never backs up? I have googled the anti-siphon valves, including a search for "Delta anti-siphon" and "running anti-siphon", and have found no help online. Any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I am new to the forums, and am a first-time homeowner. After years of renting homes with my wife and having someone else come fix everything that breaks for us, we are now trying to figure everything out on our own when things inevitably break around the home. It has been quite the eye-opening, exhausting, overwhelming, neverending experience. On the plus side, I have enjoyed the tremendous sense of satisfaction that fixing something myself brings, even when it takes 5 trips to Home Depot to do it (literally).
Most recently, we noticed that our toilet is quietly, slowly running. I have dealt with running toilets in the past, but never one like this. The house was built in the 1890's, approximately, and I have no idea how old the toilet is. It's a "Wellworth," if that tells you anything. It doesn't have the traditional bobber inside. It has a Delta "Anti-Siphon" valve. I've never seen one of these before. On the white cap of the valve it says "raise" and "lower" with corresponding arrows in different directions. But I'm not sure what I'm supposed to turn to raise and lower it. The whole white thing? One of the screws? And what would raising or lowering it do? I'm not sure why they chose to use this kind of valve. Maybe it has something to do with the age of the toilet, or maybe it was just personal preference.
Regardless, the valve appears to be slowly leaking. But it's weird. No water is running into the toilet bowl itself. There is no perceivable movement in the water in the bowl. It is just constantly running out of the little hose into the fill tube, very slowly. It never overflows, and we have left it all night to see what would happen. I don't know why it's running, or where the water is going.
Should it be doing that? Is that part of the "anti-siphon" process? Keep it running just a little bit so that it never backs up? I have googled the anti-siphon valves, including a search for "Delta anti-siphon" and "running anti-siphon", and have found no help online. Any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks