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Hit 10 years in my Alpharetta house and realized I've replaced the same toilet flapper 8 times
I just hit a decade in this house and counted up all the toilet flappers I've swapped out. Eight of them. Eight. That's like $40 in rubber just from one toilet. Anybody else deal with this or am I buying the wrong flapper from Home Depot?
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the_oscar9d ago
Eight flappers in ten years... that's like a rubber retirement party every fifteen months. I'm convinced my water softener is secretly waging war on all flexible parts in this house. Had a Fluidmaster in there that was giving up the ghost every eighteen months, switched to a Korky and got a solid two years before it started letting water trickle past at 3am. Now I just buy three-packs from Lowe's and keep a spare in the tank lid compartment, gives me a sad little sense of control over the chaos.
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gibson.mark9d ago
@the_oscar I'm gonna push back here. Eight flappers in ten years sounds like a water chemistry problem, not a flapper quality problem. You said yourself you've got a water softener doing weird stuff. That's the real enemy, not the rubber. I've got hard well water, no softener, and my original Fluidmaster in a Toto toilet from 2014 is still sealing tight. Zero trickles, zero midnights surprises. My neighbor runs a whole house softener and he's replacing fill valves and flappers every 18 months like clockwork. Maybe those Lowe's three-packs are just a bandaid.
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