How To: Replace a Toilet Flush Lever
Sometimes I don’t know my own strength and apparently sometimes I even flush the toilet too aggressively. So aggressively that I break the handle, or at least the plastic flush lever. This is what I did earlier this week.
Oh snap, is right.
The biggest problem in all of this is that I broke the plastic flush lever in the hub’s favorite toilet. Yes, you read correctly – he has a favorite toilet. We both do. Chad’s is the guest bathroom and mine is the new throne in our half bathroom – out of pride of course.
Like I said, oh snap.
Luckily repairing one of these guys is a 15 minute process. But it did take us a few days to get to Triangle True Value to buy the replacement lever – longest three days of his life.
One of these guys will run you anywhere between $4 and about $25. We opted for the $18 version because it was the only side mount model they had with a true chrome handle instead of a chrome toned plastic handle. That is tip number one, make sure you note where you current flush lever is mounted – in the side or in the front. Also decide if you want to go for plastic or not. These two options will determine which replacement lever you buy.
Then you can just follow the instructions to install it, likely printed on the back of the lever packaging.
Honestly, we didn’t even look at them until the end though. All you really have to do is, first, unhook the chain and flap from your current lever.
Then you unscrew the existing level inside the toilet and replace it with the new lever – reattaching the chain.
So easy a super strong cave woman could do it – after breaking it in the first place. Insert Tim the Toolman-like grunting here.
Have you guys tackled any mundane but absolutely necessary projects these days? Any one else have a favorite toilet?
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