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sameter12 (MD)
Toilet leaks are said to be progressive with water loss increasing with time. Would you agree it would take some time for a toilet to go from where there was no leak to a worst case running leak. The water meter shows a water loss of hundreds of thousands of gallons in a quarter when just the previous quarter it was less than a usage of just a few thousand gallons. Would you say this is a progressive toilet leak or should the meter be tested for possible malfunction?
The water supplier came out to inspect due to above and the bill that we'd not been told of until supposedly hundreds of thousands of gallons had been wasted in a short time and a toilet that made no noise before that day and the usage on all previous bills for years showed no loss of water but only the normal usage and then on that one day a fairly new flapper was out of position and there was a great deal of noise and obvious water loss of say a gallon per minute or so.(described as running leak) The flapper could be put back into position to stop the noise and water loss though it was all changed. What do you think was going on here? I'd never heard of a toilet leak just starting out as worst case. Nothing one day and you could hear it from another level of the house suddenly.
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Plumberpalmer (MA)
If you where losing 1 gallon per minute that means 1,500 gallons a day where being wasted. But it is more likely that it was more like 2 to 3 gpm I would replaced the flapper with OEM and also get the water department to check the meter.
In my area if you had a leak and with an invoice from a licensed plumber they may adjust the bill.
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North Carolina Plumber (NC)
Its the same way here also, if you have an invoice from a licensed plumber stating the reason for such a large water usage the town will adjust the water bill.
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