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Apparently an internal sticker about not using tank cleaning products had fallen off the tank wall and gotten stuck under the flapper, leading to a leak.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it struck us as funny, at least.<\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-XTnKcrbPl4A\/T7CMj2TXFUI\/AAAAAAAAKhk\/psYnDaEYOOI\/s0-d\/2012-05-13_22-26-01_237.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-XTnKcrbPl4A\/T7CMj2TXFUI\/AAAAAAAAKhk\/psYnDaEYOOI\/s0-d\/2012-05-13_22-26-01_237.jpg' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Kjku4rpPrTo' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got nice, shiny, low-flow, high-seat, wonderful toilets with our remodel last year. They work like a dream, are comfortable, and, of course, are water-efficient Until I noticed, when I got home from my business trip, that the one in the master bathroom was leaking, in terms of the water periodically starting up and then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/13\/toilet-problems.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Toilet Problems&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-home-improvement"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1081,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/18\/you_know_whats.html","url_meta":{"origin":27903,"position":0},"title":"You know what&#8217;s amazing?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-Oct-01 6:17am","format":false,"excerpt":"Styrofoam. 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