Another day off ruined by household disaster.

[Neverthesame]

Ok, hold on to your seats, I got a real humdinger this time.... Why me?...

While I was getting ready for bed, I could hear the upstairs lady in her ensuite bathroom directly above my bedroom, going about her evening routine. Toilet flushed, sink started running.

I hear the usual second flush followed by the third... No idea what she's eating but, damn... :poop: ? haha Sorry upstairs lady, couldn't help it....Anyways.
I hear her walk out of the bathroom towards her kitchen, sink still running. Then right above me I hear BANG! Then the sound of water pouring through the toilet again. Only I'm not hearing it go down the drain. I thought she left the sink stopper in place causing the sink to overflow or something.

Then I hear the upstairs lady hauling ass from the kitchen to her bathroom. Uh,oh....
I run up to make sure she was ok. (She was, though somewhat freaked out.) She yelled for me to get a mop and bucket. Bigger uh, oh...

As I come up with the mop, her husband is trying to get their wet/dry vac assembled. She's giving him panicked instructions on setting it up to suck water (which as it turns out, is exactly the same as dry). While pulling off a hose attachment he ends up putting a hole in the wall. So he's pissed right off now. :roflmao:
I run out to get the shop vac from the garage.
Once I'm back inside I take over the vacuum cleaner and get my first look at the problem.

HOLY SHIT! What a mess! The whole bathroom and half of her bedroom is flooded!
The toilet tank broke!! The hell????!?
How??!!? How does a toilet spontaneously break?
Better question. How does her toilet, of all the toilets on earth, her toilet catastrophically fail?

This woman is one of those super careful people, who try to keep everything they own pristine. She doesn't abuse her appliances (or fixtures in this case). There wasn't anything heavy on it, she didn't dump hot water onto it, she didn't bang into it. She wasn't even in the room when it broke. It's not a new toilet, nor as anything been done to it recently. (Just like that exploding light switch I wrote about a couple months ago. The new switch is working perfectly if anyone cares.)

I got lucky as there was only one leak downstairs, which I got a bucket under straight away. Though that's still going to be bad risk of mould... sigh...

I just needed to vent more than anything.

I am curious to know if anyone has ever heard of a spontaneous toilet tank failure?

Good Lord, what a day...

 

[Changing4Best]

ROFLMAO!!!!

Well, no, I have never heard of such a thing. You might have one of those Guiness Book of World Record things going on, you know? Check it out.

One time a few years back I had an upstairs neighbor overflow her toilet, but leave for work before she discovered it. UGH! I had to call the Super. Not fun!

 

[Neverthesame]

@Changing4Best If there's a Guinness record for having the greatest number of inanimate household objects spontaneously destroying themselves? I hope the prize is enough to cover the cost of replacing them.

One time a few years back I had an upstairs neighbor overflow her toilet, but leave for work before she discovered it.

Oh wow. That would've been far worse than what happened here. This was only the contents of the toilet tank (5 gal) and it caused more damage than I was expecting, despite us being on it in seconds and the water was clean. I don't want to imagine many, many more gallons of flooding poo water raining down on me.

 

[blackemerald1]

:roflmao: :wacky: How did you sleep after the exploding toilet?

 

[Neverthesame]

About as well as one would expect in a water soluble structure under Niagara falls. ??