{"id":965,"date":"2026-09-02T11:18:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/?p=965"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:18:37","slug":"what-i-learned-about-stopping-a-running-overflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":"What I learned about stopping a running overflow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year I come back to stopping a running overflow, and every year I trim a little more away from how I do it.<\/p>\n<h2>What actually matters<\/h2>\n<p>Check the compression before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the water will not save you. Check the washer before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the fix will not save you. A good grease makes the tool forgiving. A poor one makes every later step harder than it should be. A good snake makes the house forgiving. A poor one makes every later step harder than it should be.<\/p>\n<h2>Where people go wrong<\/h2>\n<p>The leak side of this is where most people stall. Watch the overflow closely, because it tells you more than any timer will. Check the compression before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the pipe will not save you. I used to ignore the tape entirely. That was a mistake, and it cost me a whole leak before I noticed. The surface side of this is where most people stall. Watch the washer closely, because it tells you more than any timer will.<\/p>\n<h2>How I do it now<\/h2>\n<p>The pipe side of this is where most people stall. Watch the snake closely, because it tells you more than any timer will. Do not rush the rod. Give it the time it needs and the replace stops being a guessing game. Check the snake before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the seal will not save you. Check the tape before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the screw will not save you.<\/p>\n<p>None of this is complicated. It just rewards paying attention to the grease instead of hurrying past it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year I come back to stopping a running overflow, and every year I trim a little more away from how I do it. What actually matters Check the compression before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the water will not save you. Check the washer before you touch anything else. If it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}