Why your toilet keeps running: the myths people believe
A toilet that keeps refilling after it has already flushed is one of the most common plumbing complaints, and a few myths make people leave it longer than they should.
A running toilet is just a minor inconvenience, not worth fixing quickly.
It can waste a genuinely significant amount of water over a year, and is a common cause of a mysteriously higher metered water bill.
If the cistern isn't visibly overflowing, nothing is actually wrong.
A worn flush valve lets a slow, near-silent trickle leak into the pan continuously, invisible unless you check with the food-colouring test: colour in the cistern, no flush, check the pan after 15-20 minutes.
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