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Originally Posted by DeanFL
Been in our TV house for 4 years now. Both toilets have begun to occasionally 'run to fill' for a few seconds. Kohler toilets, very good quality with a very nice flush mech with the vertical canister valve and rubber seal. I have cleaned the seat around the rubber seal in the tank, but did little good. Seals needed replacement - $6.99 @ at Lowes. Just installed and both original rubber seals were somewhat brittle and certainly the cause.
1. why are they not made of silicone and available? And last almost forever would assume, and only a buck or so more...but they make money on us/plumbers, so...
2. why did they deteriorate? Googled - probably due to the bleach cleaner tablets my Lady puts in now and then.
This is a no-no, may be common knowledge, but not really here. She has now been "informed".
Here's the dope via Google>
Given the dirty nature of bathrooms, and toilets in particular, all homeowners want to find fast and easy ways to clean in these spaces. That’s why many choose to use the drop-in toilet cleaners that often come in the form of bleach-chlorine tablets. These tablets may seem like simple solutions, but they are often more trouble — and damage-causing — than they are worth.
If you use drop-in toilet cleaner tablets, we recommend you change to a different method for keeping your toilet bowl clean. You may like the fresh blue look of the water when using in-tank tablets, but you are actually damaging your toilet — and the long-term cost of repairs and replacements to your toilet far outweigh the short-term ease of dropping in a cleaning solution.
This makes sense when you consider that bleach tablets are alkaline. Many of your toilet’s parts and materials corrode in high-alkaline water, which is why the rubber pieces become brittle and other portions of your toilet begin to age before their time when the drop-in tables are in use.
The Places Where Tablets Attack Your Toilet
Plastic and rubber parts, such as the gaskets and washers, were highly susceptible to corrosion and wear. Eventually, toilets leaked or didn’t flush properly due to the damage caused by the in-tank tablets.
The longer a tablet sat in a tank without a toilet being flushed, the quicker the damage to parts occurred. While homeowners would drop in these tablets and leave, assuming the tablets were doing good work, those tablets were actually slowly destroying the toilets they were meant to clean.
How should you proceed then? It’s better to clean the toilet manually on a regular basis, directly in the bowl, with cleansers and a brush. If you have especially hard water that leaves a dark ring in the bowl, a spray-on anti-lime cleanser will further help keep the bowl clean — but don’t put cleansers in either your tank or bowl and let them sit.
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Our home like yours is four years old. We do not use toilet tablets and our seals failed in about a year.
There is an issue with the Kohler seals. The original ones we had were pink in color. The PROPER QUALITY from Kohlaer will be YELLOW. When, I bought the replacements some stores were still selling the PINK ones. Some stores hand OFF BRAND parts. For me not worth the trouble to try off brand stuff.
Replacing the seals was very easy. JUST DO NOT FORCE ANYTHING-IT IS ALL PLASTIC.