Newly installed toilet slowly loses bowl water, and can hear an intermittent trickle after it stops filling.

Trying to determine next steps to figure out what is going on. This is a kohler gleam toilet, which if you look at the installation docs has a large plastic piece that bolts onto the flange and the toilet fits on top. This was the first toilet I've installed so I was very careful with installation and ran water thru the plastic bracket and found no leaks out of the wax ring. (I simply pointed the supply line into the opening and ran water thru it for at least 5min). So after flushing, the bowl will refill, you can hear the water flow stop but then a trickle afterwards. Every now and then you can hear it sometimes too. And today I marked with a sharpie the water line and found the bowl is losing water. Whats my next step? I hope the wax ring isnt leaking. I see no water around the toilet. (Its sitting on one flange riser on tile) I'm reading it could be a flapper? How would I check that? submitted by /u/ryanppax [link] [comments]

Apr 1, 2025 - 21:16

Trying to determine next steps to figure out what is going on. This is a kohler gleam toilet, which if you look at the installation docs has a large plastic piece that bolts onto the flange and the toilet fits on top.

This was the first toilet I've installed so I was very careful with installation and ran water thru the plastic bracket and found no leaks out of the wax ring. (I simply pointed the supply line into the opening and ran water thru it for at least 5min).

So after flushing, the bowl will refill, you can hear the water flow stop but then a trickle afterwards. Every now and then you can hear it sometimes too. And today I marked with a sharpie the water line and found the bowl is losing water.

Whats my next step? I hope the wax ring isnt leaking. I see no water around the toilet. (Its sitting on one flange riser on tile) I'm reading it could be a flapper? How would I check that?

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