If the toilet is about to overflow here is what you do to prevent sewage from running over the toilet bowl and onto the floor:
· Take off the toilet tank lid – Quickly but carefully, remove the lid from the toilet tank and set it aside. You can place the toilet tank lid right across the toilet bowl. Don’t knock the lid on the floor – they break. Don’t waste time moving towels and stuff – we’re in a rush to stop the toilet from overflowing.
·Reach inside the toilet and push down the flapper valve that is letting the tank empty water into the toilet bowl – this will stop water from entering the toilet and if you’re quick enough, prevent sewage from overflowing onto the floor. This will be a rubber valve in the center of the bottom of the toilet tank. This will stop water from flowing from the toilet tank into the toilet bowl. Don’t be afraid to touch the water in the toilet tank – it’s sanitary.
Stop the toilet and its tank from further filling by lifting up the float that operates the toilet tank fill valve. This will stop water from entering the toilet tank from the toilet supply line. If the water level in the toilet bowl is dropping slowly, keep holding the toilet tank float up in its highest position so that water stops flowing into the tank and into the toilet bowl.
Wait a minute – if in the next minute or two the water level in the toilet bowl slowly drops down to a normal level, you’ll be able to release the toilet tank float and let the tank and toilet bowl refill without danger of overflowing onto the floor.
If the water level in the toilet tank is not dropping, after a minute or until you can’t bear standing there any longer, continue to hold up the toilet tank float while you close the toilet supply valve near the floor or in the wall behind the toilet. Still holding up the float so that the toilet tank stops filling, reach down and carefully turn off the toilet fill valve. Turn the handle clockwise to close the valve. If you can’t do both, let the float drop and quickly close the valve.
If you cannot close the toilet fill valve, or if there isn’t one, remove the little flexible rubber or plastic tube that is sending water into the toilet bowl through the vertical standpipe.
Aim the flexible little bowl-fill tube into the toilet tank instead. Now you can let the float drop and let the toilet tank fill. The reason for this step is that that little tube is sending extra water into the toilet bowl even when the main toilet tank flapper valve has shut. You’re trying to avoid filling and overflowing the toilet tank.
Voila, you’ve prevented the toilet from overflowing onto the floor. For further assistant and more information call us.
