What causes a ball-cock type toilet valve to release water in a short spurt sporadically?

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either you have something caught in your angle valve or your float isn't adjusted properly. try turning off the angle valve, disconnecting it and turn it on and off a couple of times with a bucket to catch the water. If that doesn't work try adjusting the screw on top of your float. or you can just bend the rod.

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The gasket on the flapper may also be damaged or corroded, causing the toilet to leak slowly until it reaches the point that the ball drops enough to release more water into the tank.

This is especially likely if you use a chlorene tablet or other cleaning agent in your tank, which can easily corrode the soft gasket that plugs the hole in the bottom of the tank.

To fix, simply replace the gasket, or the entire flapper.

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It can happen if someone in the house uses another fixture (let someone else use the water in another room and or same room, take tank lid off stool and look at the float ball and see if it does it when you use another fixture, you might have to try all fixtures (one at a time) even washer and dishwasher.

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