Thanks Tim! My toilet wouldn't stop running. When I opened the tank and saw this weird contraption, I almost panicked. After watching your video, I realized what a simple fix it was. Saved me some money and a trip to the hardware store!
Agreed. Here’s how: Turn it clockwise a quarter turn, adjust it downwards (towards the ground) a bit, then turn it back counter-clockwise to lock it in position.
As seen from the comments alot of people are having overflow problems where the water wont stop. The height of the piece in video is what turns off the water. U can open it up just 2 taps on the side of it u hold then lift up. U can then see the piece move up and down. The korky video that they have says to keep it level but mine was overflowing like that but once i lowered it the ovwrflowing stopped. U can leave the top piece off while u change the height and check when it starts turning the water off.
just watched this again to troubleshoot why my toilet is running... and fixed my issue, again. It was my bad this time... the last time I installed the Korky everything was perfect... until a couple of months ago. Tunes out the height was see too high. As most of you can probably agree, fixing the toilet has been on the "to do list (in my case inspired by my wife lol)" Being a MAN means taking the time to UNDERSTAND how things actually work... and then FIX THEM when they don't work. This video gives you all of the foundational knowledge you need regarding Korky. Great for $20.
Excellent video Tim. I have a Korky fill valve. I did not know how to adjust it. I would flush toilet and the tank would fill up over the "stained" water line inside the tank and the water was way over the korky valve hole! Then during the day, the darn tank would fill with water and water was all over the floor where it had seeped out through the handle hole. I turned the water off, emptied the tank and adjusted the fill valve by turning it gently. Now the water level stops where the stained water line is and at the korky valve hole. I'll keep an eye on it today. Hope this works. Thank you for your sharing your knowledge.
It’s very hard to adjust the height when installed already because you have to unlock counter clockwise and slide up are down but the tank wall gets in the way before you fully unlock. Mine was spraying water out the side when I flushed the toilet and refilling the tank. I turned off the water. Popped off the white cover and pinched the flapper valve off and twisted the seal valve 1/8th turn counter clockwise and the red seal was broken and that was causing my spraying water through the top of my valve. Picked up a replacement seal cap for $6.25 and put it all back together. In the process of doing all that my height adjustment slipped and had to re adjust the height. At one point thought I was gonna have to take the entire valve out. After 10 minutes I rotated the valve counter clockwise but had to bend it hard against the toilet bowl to unlock and then got it to slide back up to the height I needed and locked it in. Very difficult to adjust the height when it’s fully installed.
Videos like these are why it can be such a pleasure to view DIY repairs. Direct, to the point, satisfactory audio and nothing said that's not pertainent to what I need to know. Thank you!
This thing is JUNK! I won't buy another one. This was one (really 3) items I'll regret buying from Home Depot. All of them failed in about 7 months ... at the same time! It's garbage 🗑! 🤬
Hey man, not going to argue with you about whether or not the product is junk, but I wonder if maybe the water pressure entering your home is maybe way too high. You may want to check with your municipal water department to do a check. If your toilet valves all failed around the same time, it's probably excessive pressure.
I will say that the Korky "fill and flush" kit I just installed is not quiet and the little metal piece that connects the rubber hose to the water fill pipe isn't well designed. I feel like these kits are designed to break down once every two years and they almost seem designed to leak. A plumber's job is secure, I suppose? Sanitation just like our power grids could probably use an update. Good vid, regardless.
You mention a video showing how to adjust this Korky toilet flush system, but I cannot find it anywhere looking through all your videos. A link to it here would be great.
These DIY videos are very helpful. We have a fill valve like this, and ours has been constantly trickling water into the overflow pipe even after the water has stopped flowing. I picked up another one of these earlier today and used the float and diaphragm from the new valve to replace the pieces from the one currently in the tank, and it seems to have resolved the problem.
Hey Tim! its December and this video is still helping people! My fill valve wouldn't stop the water off and was just emptying into the bowl. Never seen this type of fill valve before, so after some research I came here and was able to easily adjust it and now it shuts off when it's supposed too. thanks mate!
Good video, it helped me take the korky apart. My issue was that the toilet wasn't filling back up. I would flush and the flapper would stay up. I took it apart and cleaned everything. Except for the little hole at the bottom of the bucket. The hole at the bottom allows for the water to leak out. And this allows the flapper to lower for the toilet to fill back up. Just incase there is a person that has the same issue I did.
This explanation of how it works is good. AND knowing the place where the fill-height is and overflow goes was VERY helpful. HOWEVER, Korky has its own, not very extensive page about their similar style valve that shows how to take it apart. And clean it. There's a strainer "straw" within the innards of the valve, after removing the float and fill valve, you pull up on the part beneath and a black tube comes out, at the bottom is a strainer, a white/translucent plastic part. When I pulled that out debris came out. The Korky video also shows instructions on how to clean the diaphram and another part (pink/red rubber) with warm water. After doing that, I replaced all the parts and no more runon toilet. People, look for the Korky Toilet Repair RU-vid page, and there's a video called Korky Quietfill Toilet Fill Valve Maintenance. That shows exactly how to remove and replace ALL the parts that might be causing your valve to continue to fill. The fill-height and overflow area was NOT covered in the Korky video.
I swapped out two valves for korky. There is a quick hiss once it shuts off (on both). It doesn’t hiss while filling, just at the very end. Is that normal? If so, is that the valve closing, water escaping, air escaping, or something else? I checked my meter and the water is not running.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.....your video is excellent and guided me on repairing my toilet. Its Saturday night 1145 pm all of sudden i hear loud nouse coming from my bathroom. Water was running heavily and would nit stop. I could not figure out what to do. Knowing a repairnan would be extremely expensive at the hour, i hit the.you tube videos for help. Thats when i learned from your video that i had a float issue. Your information helped me resolve the issue immediately. Somehow the float went several inches above the water line. Again thank you!
Just got one of these, but it takes very long to fill the reservoir, my model, Korky 818BP QuietFILL, doesn't have the little valve on the top hose that regulates the water that fill the toilet bowl. Question: Where does the water come out to fill the reservoir, because the little black hose on the top fills the toilet bowl? Is it thru the bottom between the inner and the outer shell of the "apparatus" leg? Not sure how to make it fill it faster. Thank you!
Excellent video. I have the silver valve with the ball valve on the tube. For some reason sometimes a small amount of water keeps coming out of the fill tube and flowing into the bowl after the fill valve has shut off. It's almost like a reverse siphon. If I pull the tube out of the pipe, the flow shuts off and stays off when I push it back into the pipe. What would be causing that?
Once my tank fills and stops right where it needs to be for some reason about 5 min later the water in the tank starts to lower any reason why it would lower ? So far its not triggering to fill the tank again and the part seems to have a little trickle of water coming from the back top of the device . I have replaced 2 now and they do the same thing.
There are some good points made here. I just installed one and the water wont shut off. As another writer said it keeps filling til the water in the tank overflows through the flush lever hole.. Too bad Tim can't be bothered to answer the questions on here.
Little late but the height of that piece in video is what keeps it from overflowing to the other piece. If u take off the top like he did(2 taps u just grab qnd lift on) u can see the piece inside move up to turn it off. My still has a very small amount of water coming out from the tube part but not enough to cause it to overflow. I would take the back off and watch it at different heights to see when it's stopping.
I have installed one (the last of the three toilets in the house here ) and could instantly see a problem, the water is spraying out the back side of the silver cap on top, the piece you removed to show the float. while it is running water through the refill tube it's spraying out the back side as well, its very loud . no other one I have installed does this , I wrote to Korky through their web site explaining the problem and they just keep asking ridiculous questions that are already answered in my email previously. It;s starting to piss me off actually. this is the 4010M universal and they ask, for instance, what toilet I have after I have already told them I have two installed already and have done others i other houses. there is obviously something WRONG . lol anyway, I just got a third email from them stating that what I described is normal. LOL wtf? no it;s not... im about to go back to the store. they are acting like I am bothering them! LOL wow hu?
It is normal, its all going into the tank, some gets pushed into the flush valve to fill the bowl and can leak from that hose as well. As long as it stops filling when it reaches the hole under the silver cap, everything is working fine
I have one of these . My valve is wide open but it takes my toilet like 2-3 minutes to fill up the tank. Is there a way to adjust? My water level is barely just below the water level indicator on the Korky. Thanks in advance
When I flush, it will take about 30sec - 1min before it starts filling back up. It used to start filling Immediately. Do I just need to clean it? Also, can it be cleaned with out taking The whole thing out?
Mine has worked well for a while. The big complaint that I have is the plastic parts ie. inner cap could have been made a bit sturdier, plus it stuck bad when I tried to unscrew it. I wound up breaking some of the plastic on it. I need to replace the cap. Fortunately the float still operates for now.
If you want the tank's water level to be lower, adjust the height of the fill valve to be lower. To adjust the height, turn the top counter clockwise to unlock, then push down to lower the height, and then finally turn clockwise to lock the height.
But how do you adjust the water height once the fill valve is installed? No room to turn the device in order to lower the water level as far as I can tell without taking the device completely out.
Our plumber installed a Korky in our toilet and after a day, it made a very loud sound (sounded like a motor) while the toilet was filling. I called Korky. They sent me a replacement and had me send the loud one back to them. So the plumber came back and switched out the loud Korky to the new Korky. After a week the new Korky is also making a loud sound! I call it the outboard motor running in our toilet. It is maddening to hear that terrible noise everytime you flush the toilet! Any solutions to fixing the Korky or do we just replace it with something else.
Tim, the little valve in the fill line is to adjust bowl level. You close it a bit and flush until the bowl stops filling at the desired level at the same time as the tank is full.
This comment right here! This is exactly what I needed help with. For over a week I was planning to return this korky until I decided to come on youtube to double check why the bowl itself was not filling with water. Read through the comment sections and thank GOD I read your comment. I jumped up right away, took the lid off the bowl and saw the valve. Did exactly what u said and lo and behold the bowl filled up with water! So thank you thank you thank you! This comment should be pinned.
Can anyone help me understand this comment better? My toilet bowl isn’t filling though the tank is filling. So I close the little valve in the fill line and flush until the bowl stops filling at the desired and the tank is to the fill line then do what? Leave the little valve closed? Play around with how much to close the little valve? Thank you for any help.
Just fixed my toilet by taking out the float and cleaning it. The water would keep going and now it stops like it should. Didn't even have to adjust the height.
That's the same issue I'm having. It had gotten to where the flush wasn't performing well so I decided to tinker with the fill valve. As things often do, this lead to the unit not wanting to stop running now. Only way I was able to make it stop was removing the different colored lid on the fill valve and manually pressing down the float to stop the flow. Have some hope I might be able to simply do what you did rather than buy an entirely new one. I'll post if it worked or not.
