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From the way largish chunks are floating, I'd guess its a piece of expanded polystyrene that was put in there years ago and has got broken up. Perhaps a DIY water-conservation measure? Was the last owner of the house a bit of a DIYer?
Not polystyrene then. Is the 'clear' cistern fed with softened water and the 'white stuff' one fed with unsoftened water? (Or vice versa.)Plus it's hard to see in the pictures, but the floating bits were kind of flat on the surface of the water. More like pond scum than chunky.
I went to flush the toilet and nothing happened. I figured the chain had come detached from the lever arm, so I took the lid off of the tank and found all this white stuff floating in the tank water! And the lever arm failed because it appears to be corroded through and dropped the chain!
I checked the other toilet in the house and there's NO weirdness there, although I did observe the normal toilet appears to have a plastic arm while the weird toilet has a metal arm.
We got a water filtration system almost a year ago that includes a salt tank to act as a water softener. I'm paranoid that this may have contributed to this issues, but I'm pretty sure the salt is not supposed to come through to the water that comes into the house. (The tap water doesn't taste salty anyway!)
I've never seen anything like this. Any idea what is going on here, and why it's present in one toilet and not the other? Will try to include pictures of floating gunk, corroded lever, and normal toilet for comparison.
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The time delay with your posts being cleared first makes this thread disjointed however it was Ric`s post that got me thinking.
Aug 2021. I have one tank with white flakes. They refuse to empty from the tank, tho some swirl in the toilet and cluster in the center of the swirl until I put a tablespoon under the patch and remove it. However the quantity in the tank seems to remain the same! And to float, not mix. My question is, did a true answer get found? Or has the original reporter accepted metal corrosion as the answer (‘cause I am not finding that). So far, I’ve tested samples with vinegar, Clorox (at 50%), with Peroxide (really made the flakes “blossom” wildly), but haven’t found anything yet to decompose the flakes, or make them fall down INTO the underlying water. Sadly, I don’t know high school chemistry.The time delay with your posts being cleared first makes this thread disjointed however it was Ric`s post that got me thinking.
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