help me fix my toilet

[rm]

It won't flush. According to the diagram here (http://www.hometips.com/hyhw/plumbing/88toilet.html) and our inspection of the thing the line from the trip lever to the flapper or seat ball, which in this diagram is shown as two things hooked together in our toilet was just a long plastic strip that has now snapped off.

I don't trust the management company to deal with this in a timely way, and I clearly need to get more than just the line as I need a new flapper since the line broke off the flapper. But I can't figure out how many parts I need to buy or how to unconnect and connect things.

Um, so what do I buy? How do I do this? Should I just call a plummber? I don't need a new toilet do I?

ETA: if I pull up the flapper manually, it does work.

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

sometimes they wear and break which would require a new kit.

bing bing bing

[melebeth]

It's not a hard fix but just to second what someone said above... BRING THE BROKEN PART WITH YOU. Having relied on my brain in the past to get "something that matches,"I know it's very easy to end up with the wrong part when you get home... leaving you even more frustrated than you began with.