One of my toilet bowls fills too slowly  1-11-15 
I don't normally vent about clients at my Personal Training Studio, but one of them is driving me nuts. He's a nice guy...about 75 years old, but has a bladder the size of a walnut. For clarification and yet to disguise his true identity, I shall refer to him as Walnut Bladder. I have two small but very clean bathrooms in my fitness studio. They are side by side but neither is identified as belonging to any particular gender. Due to some drain configurations beneath the floor, you have to step up one step to access one of the bathrooms. For identification purposes, we call it the "upstairs bathroom." The upstairs bathroom toilet flushes slowly and refills much, much slower. There is a constriction in the line somewhere--it has been thus every since I moved in. I don't pursue a permanent repair because the owner of the building moves nearly as slow as the toilet and my lease is up soon. After a flush, the tank on the back takes about 10 to 15 minutes to refill, depending on the water pressure at the moment. When Walnut Bladder enters the building for his workout, he always visits the upstairs bathroom first. He takes his time, and then exits to update me on the status of the toilet. If someone has used it recently, he can't wait to inform me that the toilet won't flush! This has been going on for 2 1/2 years! On occasion, Walnut Bladder will perform a task in the upstairs bathroom that requires the use of the vent fan...and then ten minutes later will back in there doing something that does not. Sometimes he does this in the opposite order. Naturally he will come out and tell me that the toilet flushed a short time ago, but now it does not! The man's bladder fills faster than the toilet tank reservoir! I intend to solve the problem for him with a minor surgical procedure that I saw on the Health Channel, but first I must find a dead elephant that no longer needs it's bladder. To return to home page click here.