Home Projects & Repair

How often have you thought how great it would be to have a tool belt and then immediately thought that you don’t carry enough tools to justify getting one?

Tool belts are great because they allow you to carry all of your tool around with you allowing instant access.  However, a lot of people only need to carry around just a handful of tools.  For example an electrician doing finishing work only really needs a screwdriver or two, a pair of pliers, and some electrical tape.  Or even the do it yourselfer doing home improvements who needs to carry around a screwdriver, pliers, and a utility knife.  In these cases a tool belt is not only too big and bulky, but also a lot more expensive.

Gatorback Online Tool Belts introduces the pocket pro series of tool carriers.  These tool carriers act just like tool belts, but are small, offer just a few places for tool, and are inexpensive.  With a pocket pro you no longer have to worry about where you left your pliers or screw driver, they are always right there attached to your side.

Using a pocket pro is easy!  Simply slide the padded flap into your pocket, attach the belt flap, place your tools and you are ready to go!

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There are two things that most people don’t know about their toilet which can actually save you a little bit of trouble.  These two things have to do with the two screws on top of the ballcock.  The ballcock is the long tube that is to the left of the tube in the middle of the tank.

The first screw is usually metal and is located near the rod coming out of the ballcock.  This screw controls how quickly the tank fills up.  A clockwise twist slows down the water and counter clock-wise lets the water in faster.  You may ask, why do I care how fast the tank fills up?  Mainly this is to do with noise.  If the running water noise is too loud, then give the screw a twist and your toilet will be quieter.  Never deal with a loud noisy toilet again!

The second screw is generally a larger plastic screw.  This screw is located right in the center on top of the ballcock.  It controls the water level inside of the tank.  Most people resort to bending the float rod to adjust the water level often leading to inconsistent results or even a broken float rod.  A simple turn of this screw will adjust the float level.

A lot can go wrong with a toilet, and toilets are probably the last thing in your house that you want to deal with.  In this article we will discuss the various different places where your toilet can leak or run and give you some new vocabulary words so that you can solve the problem.

1.  Leaks around the base of the toilet.  

  Leaks around the base of the toilet on the floor are generally due to a bad seal of the wax ring on the closet ring.  The wax ring is a wax ring that seals the toilet to the closet ring.  The closet ring is the part of the piping that coming out of the floor that the toilet sits on.  A leak hear is not pleasant, especially since the leaking water is going to be dirty.

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Help! My ballcock is leaking!

Toilets can leak for a variety of reasons and nothing can be more annoying than a toilet that runs forever.  The first step to solving any problem is to determine what the problem really is.  In this case, your toilet is running, and it runs forever!  This much is obvious, but we need to know specifically what it is that is leaking.

In order to find out what the problem is we need to take off the top cover of the toilet’s tank.  Once removed we can start investigating.  

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