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In determining a leak in your system, the only absolute sure way for a decision to be made here, is to go straight to the source. The water service meter to your house monitors every drop that passes the gauge. When pouring a concrete slab foundation, the plumbing lines are trenched and placed in the ground prior to the concrete pour, as time progresses there is often several things that may have to occur or end up going wrong.
A visual inspection of the outside of your residence may aide in any abnormalities IE., wet areas near the exterior perimeters, higher than usual water bills, interior mold stench, warm places beneath the flooring etc. If you are experiencing any of these common issues, then before calling a plumbing contractor and getting invoiced for the trip, a final DIY leak test can be performed.
Turn off any and all appliances, dishwasher or washing machine. Check any and all the sinks faucets to be sure they are 100% in the off position. If any toilet is running because of needed repairs, then shut off their angle stop or (supply line) and if you are not alone then tell everyone else to please wait on flushing any toilets or washing any hands.
It is now time to find your water meter, typically on or near the street or curb. In the front of the property and in the ground. If you are absolutely positive that all fixtures/machines and spigots are off then the meter should not be moving/counting or digitally calculating the city or counties water passing through it. Chances are that this has assisted you in DIY leak detection.
How many times in or life times will we have to repair running toilet, hey does it really matter? The point is nobody really wants to deal with this stuff but all of life’s burdens are kind of a blessing in disguise. Even the most important man of his time ended up getting sucked into something he did not want to do, and with that being said the real only other alternative is having to be no longer here! Seriously though, if it’s not a toilet maybe it’ll be something with the car or possibly a conflict with another country on a much larger scale. I’m saying our coping mechanisms, as humans do most of the work and to put into perspective, our perceptions of truly just how horrible a little out of the way trouble is’nt mostly that bad at all. At least you still have your brain to aide in most predicaments good or bad, some lesser fortune individuals only dream they had the gift to solve anything, let alone a more often time’s than not, simple toilet that won’t stop leaking! Be grateful and persevere and dream of way better tomorrow’s….
How to repair a running toilet, reasons are they run because they leak water out of the tank and down the drain, or the floor. This automated invention has been improved upon many times over for efficiency and has tremendous longevity. But for some reason or another the porcelain substance used will sometimes get a hairline crack and slowly drip to lose water.
When a single piece toilet gets a crack the whole toilet will need replacing. Where as a two piece toilet, the tank can be unbolted and removed to be replaced. Sold both ways although and neither is superior to the other, height restriction or the lower profiled single piece toilet may have this going for it, depending on the DIYer’s personal preference. Most manufacture’s will sell you the tank alone down the road someday if want or need takes precedence. Do your homework and pull the trigger on your choice.
On a recent call to repair a running toilet the owner had said “all the sudden it’s like one day it would’nt shut off” so of coarse we went to have a look? After discovering everything was in order 
on the fairly new loo, the procedure went straight to flush. And flush after flush, on every third maneuver the handle stuck just enough to hold the flapper valve ajar to leech.
The tank has a square hole in which the handle protrudes and locks down on the inside with a plastic nut, the pivot points quarter turn and then return in waiting it’s next duty. This plastic assembly though is produced from a man made mold, and still had an over pour nub in just the right spot that caused it to not allow the proper return. Disassembled, with a sharp utility blade I shaved the nub a shaped the over pour in which disallow no more undo friction. Reassembled and tested several times aided by the visual inspection of a new efficient working order. Hey, things just happen, and the DIYer sometimes has to make them not happen.
If you’ve had a recent need to repair a running toilet, chances are the last entity that set the toilet in reference did not get it just right. Likely if the wetness is around the base area and only at the floor (no drips coming from above either the tank nor the supply line) where the probability would be the wax seal is letting water pass somehow.
Once supply has been turned off, flush enough too remove as much standing water in tank, undo supply line at tank, now unbolt toilet at base (x 2 nuts) and any caulking needs to be cut around base at the floor. Lift toilet with a pressure that’s continuous, this will detach the wax ring from the floor flange. It will look pretty gnarly there but mostly just wax, use gloves, and inspect that the wax ring for the running toilet has been placed so the plastic funnel has been installed down into floor flange. Now if by chance the height differs in relation to top of flange and bottom of toilet, the wax ring can be doubled for this problem some stores offer thickness options as well.
Standard toilets all have a holding tank for reserve water at the ready for flushing, and inside all of them, contains an apparatus that has moving parts that as well as wear out just get discomboobulated to a point of non- function. Inside every tank there is also a water level line, in many cases issues arise from a heavy handed flusher.
Lift the lid to get familiarized with the components involved, when flushing the handle lever rises the tank flapper with the lift chain, the ballcock drops as the tank water lowers until the flapper closes and water refills the tank again. As the ballcock rises it hits a adjustable stop point, and shuts the internal fill water off. If the adjustable level is too high then the water runs down the overflow tube hence one way to repair running toilet, adjust the fill level.