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How hard is it to make sure your toilet has completely flushed and that it is not leaking all over the floor? Personally I don't think it's that hard, I wait for the bowl to swirl, and for the tell tale gurgling sound the flush makes as it goes through the pipes. If there's a problem, grab the plunger and get to work. Apparantly my neighbor two stories directly above my ground-floor apartment didn't understand the importance of this. So Sunday night his toilet ran all night. All night.
I wake up in the morning, open my door, and take a step into the hallway, and *squish*. Dazed and confused I check for the source of the water, and it's not coming from my bathroom, but from the ceiling, through the walls. Luckily there was already a cleaning man on the job working upstairs to clean out all the water, they got to work quickly in my apartment. Yet they had to pull up the carpet in the hallway and bedrooms, as the water had crept in through the floor. Ridiculous. They cleaned all the water out, but we've got 4 industrial fan blowers going and a de-humidifier. The walls were also damaged so they will come back to repair that once the wood and everything is dried up... 3 days. So I can't have all my equipment setup as normal, so I've brought my computer box to the living room and hooked it up to the TV... fortunately I can test out some of my HTPC apps before doing it on the real thing. So much hassle over a single overflowing toilet. Just do everyone a favor and double check that all the contents of the toilet bowl has exited cleanly before leaving the bathroom. |
