How to Replace a Toilet Flusher Handle

These nifty gadgets are what make toilets so utterly convenient for us. However, not all toilets are created equal, and when you have one (like the one in our bathroom) that just won't fit correctly, it's nice to have a DIY to refer back to.

In accordance with the rest of the bathroom parts that we're replacing to update the bathroom, the brass flusher/handle/thing on our toilet didn't fit anymore, so we had to replace it with a matching brass-srcatched black one. These, by the way, I'm fairly certain, are called 'Venetian Bronze' accessories, should you care to look for some yourself.

 So, without further ado- the final product.

 You start out with a package that will look rather like this- a handle on a long metal rod of some sort or another.

 This is a close up of the handle.. you can almost see the brass scratches in this one.

Well, our toilet is a bit weirdly shaped, and this is what the old toilet handle's rod on the inside looked like.

See that white thing on the other side of the handle? That's a nut. It's the only thing keeping the handle on.

 This picture is sideways for some reason, but the point is, detach the chain at the end. This chain flushes your toilet, so don't be surprised if you flush it on accident. I clipped my chain to that white tube there, but if you don't mind fishing through the water for it, more power to you.

  As you can see, directly out of the package, our new handle was not going to fit.

However, after quite a bit of bending, we managed to make it fit. As you can see, there are quite a few scratches on the metal from this, on the inside. Due to the heavy duty nature of this metal, actually bending it required both hands of two people. We bent it as closely as we could to the other toilet handle's rod. This required both hands, and another person helping, along with pliers. The real trick is to make sure that you put the handle on in the right orientation, or flushing may be difficult. Oh, and any scraping the nut does against the side of the toilet is fine. Just make it tight.