- Nehmo - If this were a problem in my house, we would just clamp on a miniature set of alligator-mouth (flat) vice grips. If that's too heavy and causes the lever to stay in the down position, then also clamp in a counterweight, like a butter knife, with the handle of the butter knife going to the right (over the pivot of the lever).
If I were correcting this "problem" for a customer, I would buy and install a longer flush handle. Home Depot might not have a large enough selection.
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Where are you located, OP? Maybe I could direct you to a store.
Actually, many older or fancier flush handles are composed of two parts, one of which is the outside leaver. You could buy the two-part kind and custom make your outside lever.
- Me or Blake -
On the final walk-through of our new home today, I noticed all of our
> toilet flush handles are rather hard to get to.
>
> Could somebody that knows more than me take a look at these pictures
> and see if these look installed correctly with the correct parts? I'm
> talking about how the handle is obscured almost completely by the lid.
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> Here's the labels of the toilets (Made by Vortens, Seat by Bemis) and
> how it looks with the lid down:
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> And here's a toilet in the model home which shows much more clearance
> (I think due to a different tank model):
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> So, is the seat too big? Is the handle placed incorrectly? Does the
> smaller tank not match the rest of the toilet? Am I crazy for even
> thinking about this?
> I'm going to stop by Home Depot tomorrow, but I figured I'd get better
> answers from you guys.