The joys of home ownership

[Major Nikon]

Today I had to go home from work because one of my toilets sprung a leak. My daughter didn't want to turn off the shut off valve behind the toilet because water was spraying everywhere, so I directed her to the house valve just outside my front door. After she removed the cover to the valve she found a garden snake in the hole and freaked out. I finally got her to shut off the valve behind the toilet as that seemed preferable to sticking her hand down a hole with a snake. By the time I got home there was water everywhere, so we spent the next hour or so with the wet vac.

The plastic connector that connects to the supply line had a big crack in it. Rather than repair it I just bought a new one and replaced the toilet. The new one is a 1.6/1.1 dual flush and seems to work pretty well. I like it so much I think I'll replace the other one soon with the same model.

[NightWatcher]

1. Those plastic toilet supply lines will always rupture. Buy the braided stainless steel line

and save yourself the headache of a flooded bathroom. Use metal connectors too. Plastic fails under pressure.

[BlueJazz]

2. How true, and steel isn't affected (much) by environmental stuff in the air or ultraviolet light.

[Major Nikon]

3. I already had the braided line

It was the plastic part on the toilet itself that failed. I suspect a contractor I had that did some remodeling in my bathroom some time back probably over-tightened it and it just took a while to fail.

[shenmue]

4. Yipes

[clamshells]

5. that was clean water

tell your daughter to man up next time. Some day she will live by herself and need to do this stuff.

[mnhtnbb]

6. One of the joys of a new--relatively--house

is having the water shut-off valve inside. I just hope I remember where it is
when I need to shut off the water!