Ballcock Assembly

Posted by Robert on the 6th of September, 2006 at 8:50 PM GMT0. Permalink.
Tags: Home Improvement, Personal, Toilet

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When I posted this, I was listening to: Howie Day - Collide

No, it's not some perverted club. It's a toilet part. Mine broke. I've never done anything as questionable as write something like, "My ballcock assembly shaft is split," on a maintenance report.

I came home today to the sound of water gushing inside my toilet. I popped open the top to see swirling water. I flushed it and realized a plastic pipe was gushing water. I turned the water off to the toilet and hit the Internet to see what the problem was.

I found out that the part was broken was part of the ballcock assembly, the shaft. It's basically a hard plastic pipe. Mine's old. It split.

For a brief moment, I thought I'd rather fix it myself than have to worry if my apartment manager's wife would thing I was a pervert. In addition to the How Stuff Works article, I found a video and another article about replacing the ballcock assembly. While it didn't seem very difficult, it looked time consuming and it's really my manager's job. If his wife thinks I'm a perv, oh, well. I tried, however, to make the request sound as professional as possible.

Apparently it is also called a supply hose bone. Unfortunately, Google knew more about ballcock assembly than it did supply hose bone.

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