Friday, March 27, 2009

wholy buckets!

and exploding toilets!

Tonight we have one of Darly's friends staying over. DH & I were downstairs talking when she flushed the toilet. We heard a very weird noise followed shortly by both girls screaming!

We ran upstairs and DH found the tank of the toilet spewing water. The girls assumed that this was all water out of the bowl and were totally grossed out, but it was all fresh tank water.

At first (after shutting off the water!) we thought that somehow the float valve had just worked itself off and once that was screwed back on would work fine...but alas cheap plastic parts don't last so well. It seems that the float valve is toast as well as the connection from the wall to the tank...the water intake valve may be toast too. ugh!

Now I have a load of towels to wash. Fun! Any ideas on when my house is going to stop breaking?

7 comments:

  1. Man, I was just wondering when things were gonna stop breaking at your house myself the other day! Good luck!

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  2. If you figure out when they are going to stop breaking, then you can tell me when things are going to stop breaking in my house.

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  3. Oh boy that is a nasty surprise, looks like a new toilet system is needed. Hopefully your house will take a rest and stop breaking stuff on you, it's expensive and tiresome. :)

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  4. OH NO!! I hope things stop breaking on you and things settle down to a decent normalcy. Try to enjoy the weekend.

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  5. exploding toilets? YIKES. houses generally stop breaking about 2.7 seconds after you sell them.

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  6. DH & I were downstairs talking when she flushed the toilet. We heard a very weird noise followed shortly by both girls screaming!

    Pffffft! I just spit out what I was drinking.

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  7. Also, fresh tank water? There is no such thing. Anything touching a toilet--other than a thoroughly scrubbed down toilet seat--is a biohazard.

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