I have a 4 month old toilet that will not flush properly. I have snaked it and plunged it but all the water will not empty from the tank. I have also adjusted the chain and ballcock but nothing seems to work.

On the newer water saver tanks at my house, I found some extended flush flappers. The flapper has a piece of styrofoam on it so it floats when opened closing more slowly. This lets more water go into the bowl. Adjust the water cock so that the tank is filling all the way to the full line. I sure hope this helps.

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Originally Posted by vigs

I have a 4 month old toilet that will not flush properly. I have snaked it and plunged it but all the water will not empty from the tank. I have also adjusted the chain and ballcock but nothing seems to work.

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When I was the service manager for a large plumbing company we used to get calls like yours. "The toilet does not overflow; the water reaches the rim and gradually subsides, leaving the waste and a small amount of water in the bowl."
As a rule in older toilets this would mean a blocked jet butI was getting these calls on toilets that we just installed in our new construction. So when we got a complaint that one of our new toilets was having a flush problem I went out on the call. After a few calls I found the trouble. When our installers set a toilet the wax ring would spread in instead of out. This choked down on the opening setting up a back pressure that stopped the siphon action of the flush.
The remedy was to pull the toilet and form the wax seal so it beveled out and would spread out instead of in blocking the drain opening. I would have this checked first. After our plumbers began to bevel the ring out out complaints stopped. Something to be checked. Tom