/diy/ - Do It Yourself

idk if it's really an abomination because it was a quick, simple, cheap working solution to my problem.

Problem: Toilet tank is filling too much, leading to water flowing down the overflow tube.
Adjustment screw on fill valve is old and stuck in place due to corrosion.

What I did:
>Take a pair of vice grips
>Put them on the adjustment screw on the filler and try to adjust it
>it's corroded so it's stuck in place and I end up breaking it off
>take a quarter and a penny and jam them on top of one another into the space where the screw used to be.
Now when the toilet refills, the float lever presses down on the coins which shuts the filler valve.
Has worked perfect for a month now, the toilet fills to the proper amount and has zero leaks.
picrel is the screw I broke and replace with 26 cents.