cmac2012
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I took this out for a client yesterday and installed a nondescript Kohler. He said this one running a lot and he didn't want to try to fix it.
I have mixed feelings about this model, he has one in each bathroom. But it might look stylish to some, and the one piece construction makes cleaning easier.
I'm thinking to try to sell this toilet plus my install, maybe $200 or $250. Otherwise I pay to dispose of it. But first I need to make sure I can get it working. The fill valve is likely funky - old looking float ball - and the flapper definitely needs changing.
All easy enough, I'm thinking a Korky would be short enough to work and the flapper is a standard unit. The fill valve on this is weird - has a large diameter length of tubing going into a hole at the front of the tank, no doubt to fill the bowl after a flush. I'm guessing I can just rout the Korky line into it, using some other different sized tubing to take up the slack between the smallish Korky line with Sikaflex in the mix to prevent leaking. Anybody ever replaced the valve on this model?
I'm not even sure who made this unit. — scratch that — just now saw Kohler in faint letters just above the seat area. Armed with that I looked again at the stamped letters, figured out K3402, it’s a Rialto.
I've seen/worked on maybe ten in my long and storied career. Hard as hell to place on the wax. I like to put the wax in place on the floor and drop the toilet onto it. Finally with one of these I used a few strips of 3/4 ply as blocks in the front and back and positioned it over the bolts and wax ring and removed the plywood gradually and lowered it down. Why didn't I thing of that before?
I have mixed feelings about this model, he has one in each bathroom. But it might look stylish to some, and the one piece construction makes cleaning easier.
I'm thinking to try to sell this toilet plus my install, maybe $200 or $250. Otherwise I pay to dispose of it. But first I need to make sure I can get it working. The fill valve is likely funky - old looking float ball - and the flapper definitely needs changing.
All easy enough, I'm thinking a Korky would be short enough to work and the flapper is a standard unit. The fill valve on this is weird - has a large diameter length of tubing going into a hole at the front of the tank, no doubt to fill the bowl after a flush. I'm guessing I can just rout the Korky line into it, using some other different sized tubing to take up the slack between the smallish Korky line with Sikaflex in the mix to prevent leaking. Anybody ever replaced the valve on this model?
I'm not even sure who made this unit. — scratch that — just now saw Kohler in faint letters just above the seat area. Armed with that I looked again at the stamped letters, figured out K3402, it’s a Rialto.
I've seen/worked on maybe ten in my long and storied career. Hard as hell to place on the wax. I like to put the wax in place on the floor and drop the toilet onto it. Finally with one of these I used a few strips of 3/4 ply as blocks in the front and back and positioned it over the bolts and wax ring and removed the plywood gradually and lowered it down. Why didn't I thing of that before?
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