Seasoned FPS readers know I’m useless when it comes to home repair. Here’s my latest saga: For the last few weeks, the water in my toilets have been running. This is particularly bad in drought-stricken California. My reliable handyman has been too busy for a house call. I went on YouTube to see if I could fix it myself. (I couldn’t.) My only workaround was to lift the tank cover and manually press the “flapper” down. Yesterday, the handyman finally came over in, tooled around and told me the toilets were fixed. After he left, they were even worse. In a panic last night, I used duck tape in the tank, which stopped the toilets from continually recycling. Today, a bonafide plumber intervened. He replaced both my flappers (now bright red) and everything’s AOK.