Lucky for you and the check book! Now drain the tub; run a batch of potato peelings disposal-wise; and flush the toilet(s) while draining the wash cycle all at the same time: just to check if 'das Hoos boot" will really dive...good luck Kaleun:salute:Snaked main sewers have a way of recurring....

well it is a rent house, and my lease is up in exactly 45 days.

considering options :hmmm:

A winter move with the kids in school...there goes yer 'peace' again!:rotfl2:Loved your sig photo so much I had to keep up!:woot:

I'm going to attempt a repair on my leaking toilet tank. <crossing fingers>

Good luck skipper, there's nothing quite like rooting around the back of the khazi to make you feel slightly unsavoury.:salute:

You guys got it easy, I got my old house about 50% done before we moved in. Someone welded in most of the old cast iron tubs and toilets..Anyway, I replaced most of the faucets with new valves and stuff, finally got the tub working. I was in the basement over the tub while my wife was bathing and all of a sudden for about 10 seconds water came pouring from somewhere on top of me to the floor and stopped. I thought I must have a leaky pipe or valve, but that was all now behind the new drywall, tile, etc...figured I'd have to rip it all off to go looking...but couldn't find a leak as we ran more water...I finally figured it, the tub overflow. My wife will lay flat in the tub and dunk her head causing the water to rise to the overflow, but it wasn't secure, so came out a crack where I didn't tighten it. I had to be careful not to make a joke about her body mass flooding the basement when she lay all the way in the tub....

More amazing is how they wired houses, my guess is it got rewired sometime in the 50's, but how more houses didn't burn down then....wires just wrapped, small clamp and lots of electrical tape...course I had planned on rewiring it...

184 BC: at Syracuse: Mathmatician Archimedes: "Eureka Eureka!" on discovering the theory of displacement...just run down the street naked too!:har:

Double check the wire. If it's really old, it might be aluminum wire, not copper. Which is a fire hazard. Covered with that thick black asphalt insulation?

:huh: :har:

It was actually a mix, lot of old knob and tube covered with loom, but wiring was such a mess I'm rewiring, takes time because of plaster over wood slat, but I've got about 70% done, what's not done is dead...

Excelsior!
 

The Loo is repaired and holding it's water until called for.
$4.00 fix. :up: Naturally it had to be the bolt on the port side that broke.:stare: Making it more difficult for my stroked port side to accomplish the repair:-?

On the plus side, I don't have to replace the toilet, which, will come with a complete bathroom remodel if it ever dies for good.

Thank god the handle's on the right! Ya bloom'n four-flusher!:woot:

edit: Addendum...

Wife 2.0 informed me right after I finished the repair that the toilet had probably been leaking for a month or so. In her typical female logic she couldn't find the leak and didn't think to inform me of it because she thought it sounded like it was coming from outside.:88) I didn't notice the seepage into the laundry area of the basement until just the other day, because I heard something dripping onto a detergent bottle, long after it had originally started. The underside of the flooring now has nasty black and white stains. :haha::wah:

Well water can sure eat some shtuff up. :-?
The bolt was brass and it broke off right at the head due to oxidation. A problem that frequently occurred with our sump pumps... until I fixed it!

I shouldn't complain though. The toilet is almost as old as I am. Fifty plus years of service is not something you'll get with modern day hardware.:sunny:

Now your simply talking a load of crap :)

Congrats on your literary award from :subsim:! the first redundant oxymoron I've ever witnessed in writing...:woot::har: