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Note to Self: Repair Running Toilet Already, because It Constantly Runs, Well, Almost (LeakBird)

Because no matter what I seem to do, my toilet always seems to find a way to run for a few minutes, I often think about all of the ways in which a toilet can run or leak. When you get down to it, there are two main ways the water can outflow.

Down the overflow [...]

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Top Ten Ways to Repair a Running Toilet (LeakBird)

Last year property management and real estate behemoth CitiApartments purchased my 17-unit-or-so Victorian apartment building, which is kitty-corner to the upper east end of Dolores Park in the Mission in San Francisco. Lately my toilet, which must be from the 80’s (built some 30 years ago, in a time when natural resources seemed infinite), [...]

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An Uncaring Tenancy: Is There Any Hope for Water Conservation and Leak Detection in Rental Properties? (LeakBird)

I’m a property manager for a mom-and-pop company that owns several residential buildings in San Francisco. In April of 2007 one of our buildings, a twenty-one unit, early 20th century Victorian in the Lower Haight, saw its water usage more than double over a two-month span, going from approximately 70,000 gallons to 168,000 gallons of [...]

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