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Episode --> This episode opens with Rich Trethewey, discussing
the most used plumbing fixture in the house: the toilet. Inside
the toilet must flush water from the storage tank, which causes
it to drain into the flush rim and then into the bowl. It must
also eject waste from the bowl through a “P” trap formed from
the ceramic of the bowl and into the waste plumbing. When the
storage tank finishes draining, a valve must close and a
regulator must operate to properly refill the tank for the next
flush.  Richard walks down the table, and through history,
showing a copper float (one of the first he worked on), a
plastic float on an arm, and finally the modern integral
arrangement, where the float rides up and down the fill column,
and operates a lever that opens or closes the fill valve.  The
most common problem people have is the constantly running
toilet. This happens when the flapper doesn't