Toilet that won't stop running: how bad does it score?

A running toilet sits in that gray zone between housekeeping, plumbing deficiency, and water waste. Whether it scores depends on whether the fixture works as intended — flush, fill, shut off. Share how inspectors on your properties have treated it, and the two-minute flapper fix versus the full rebuild.

A running toilet is a two-minute diagnosis: flapper not sealing, chain too short, or a fill valve that never shuts off. The scoring question is whether the fixture 'works as intended,' and a toilet that fills all day arguably does not. It is also the kind of thing residents live with for months without ever calling it in, so turns and pre-walks are where it gets caught. How are inspectors treating running toilets on your properties lately — cited, mentioned in passing, or ignored?