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  2. How to Fix a Running Toilet and ZERO Plumbing Skills ... - AOL

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    Fixing a running toilet is a task that if you put your mind to it, you can do all on your own (without professional help). We have a step-by-step guide to DIY.

  3. Backflow - Wikipedia

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    In most cases, they replace mains pressure with the pressure of that from a raised gravity cistern. Common examples of an air gap in domestic plumbing are: Taps above washbasins; Cold water cisterns, where the float valve outlet must be above the overflow water level. The previous practice of taking a "silencing tube" from the float valve to ...

  4. Sanitary sewer overflow - Wikipedia

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    One of the main problems of a decentralized line failure is the difficulty of defining the location of overflow, since a typical urban system contains thousands of miles of collection pipes, and the central treatment plant has no way of communicating with all the lines, unless expensive monitoring equipment has been installed.

  5. Raw Sewage in Your Apartment: Repairs Your Landlord Can't Ignore

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    When that was seemingly fixed, an even worse problem arose: Feces began to seep from the toilet and sink -- and even from the walls and floors of her home, Shepherd told WXIA-TV in Atlanta ...

  6. Ballcock - Wikipedia

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    As the tank water level drops, the float descends and actuates the fill valve. Water is fed to the tank to replenish its supply, and a smaller flow is directed into the overflow tube to refill the bowl. Once the flapper valve closes, the water flow from the fill valve continues until the tank level again reaches the fill line.

  7. Toilet overflowing? Just send a text. - AOL

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  8. Drain-waste-vent system - Wikipedia

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    Generally, a toilet outlet has the shortest trap seal, making it most vulnerable to being emptied by induced siphonage. An additional risk of pressurizing a system ahead of a waste stream is the potential for it to overwhelm a downstream trap and force tainted water into its fixture. Serious hygiene and health consequences can result.

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