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TOILET FILLS TOO SLOW!!...QUICK AND EASY FIX!

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This video demonstrates how to fix a slow-filling toilet by cleaning the Fluidmaster fill valve. The steps include turning off the water supply, removing the valve cap, lifting and turning the valve to remove it, cleaning the valve and its body, reassembling the valve, cleaning the fill valve hose, turning the water back on, and observing the water flow and shut-off function after the fix.

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Hey folks, that picture guy here and today we are going to be working on this toilet right here. So you can see this toilet tank is pretty long. This is a Devin Shire 4619 toilet and it has a fill valve in it that is barely dripping out. Like check this out. Okay, so what we're going to do is we're actually... I'm going to show you how to take a fluid master fill valve apart. Alright, we're going to take it apart. I'm going to show you how to clean it and hopefully that thick is our issue. If not, then I'll change it out, but I think we're going to have some success. So come along, let's get the face in you. These old school fluid masters, they are awesome, man. This is the best fill valve. These guys, they really know how to do it. I mean, this is an older model, but I bet if we clean it out, it still ends up working awesome. As you can see, this toilet, it's taking a while to fill. Like, I could let it sit here, it's going to take almost five minutes. This is a big tank, right? This is that Devin Shire 4619. I just replaced the flapper on here. I'll put a link right up here. You guys will be able to see that video. And we're just going to go ahead and we're going to try to see if we can get some better flow coming out of this thing. So let's just go ahead, we're going to shut the water off. We're just going to come right down here to the shut off valve. This particular style is a quarter turn style, quarter turn on, quarter turn off. Very easy. And we just go right here. This cap right here, it just pops off. A little difficult sometimes, but you just kind of get one hand under, pry it there, and then you can just try to pop it off right there. So now you've exposed this. Okay, so if you take this and you, if you lift this up and then you turn this, kind of clockwise. This whole thing pops off right here. So what I want to do here is I just want to put my hand over this and I want to turn the valve on. So you're going to put your hand over this and you're going to turn the water valve on. Try to get it on full blast without getting any water everywhere. You can put a cup over it, something, just to see if you can clean any debris out of it, right? I didn't really fill anything, but that doesn't mean there's not something there that something didn't get unlogged. So then you just take this, you pop it back on that way, and then write it tidy. Just go until it goes, it clicks in place. You'll feel it, you'll feel when it rolls, and plus you can look at it and say, oh, that's in the same place that it was. So I know that it's good. Take the cap, pop the cap back on, just does a little click, make sure that it works. Get whatever that is off of there, and you can see this right here is a little bit dirty, this hose. Well, just needs to be clean, that's it. It still works well, functions well. Let's go ahead and pop that off. And so just go ahead and clean this off right here. Let's see what we can do, see if we can get that all cleaned up. Look at that, that's a night and day difference. Look at that side of the hose and that side of the hose. Just a little bit more in the water. It's looking pretty good, not 100% but it looks a lot better than it did. Okay, and then we're going to blow this out again. You just want to cover your hand right here. Okay, so you can see it looks like it's working a little bit better than it did before. And let's go ahead, put this back on here. Put this back in its tube, and let's turn the water back on. Let's go ahead and pick this up, look at that. Oh man, look at that, that's definitely going way more than it had in the past. It's got a low flow on it, so it's not going to go super hard, and there we go, it actually shut off. Let's try to get it hooked up again here. Okay, well that seems to fill a lot better than it did before. It seems to be a little bit quicker, and we'll let that rock and roll. That should be good, this is a quick little thing. Remember, pop the cap off, check it out, there could be something blocking that. You can also just pull this out, blow that off, you got a good little flow there, and ready to rock and roll. Alright, so that's how you take apart a fluid master fill valve. Really easy to just clean that out and test it. It's a good little troubleshooting tip that's going to save you a little time and a little trip to the store, right? And if you have to change it out, that's not a big job either, but to shut the water off, pop that apart, turn some water on, see if you get it good flow through it, it's quick, it's easy. I really hope it helped. If you guys can please subscribe to the channel, click the like button, it would be greatly appreciated. We're just trying to help you out, and I really hope we're doing that. Thank you very much, and we'll see you again real soon.

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