A few nights ago I was laying in bed and was jarred awake by the sound of a light misty spray sound coming from my bathroom. It was the same sound as if a outside water hose were turned on and water sprayed out between the hose connection and the house. I crawled out of bed at 3:00 AM and tripped over piles of clothes to get to my bathroom....well, more like mounds of unfolded clothes, piles sounds too clean. I stared blankly at the toilet and decided in my supreme 3:00 AM wisdom, that it must just be the toilet running and I could crawl back in bed since the bathroom was not flooded. I fell back asleep and woke up about an hour later to the sound of dripping water in the bathroom. It was then that I walked in and discovered the wall behind my toilet was soaked, along with my shower curtain, and that there was a puddle forming on the ground from water misting from some unknown location. Seeing a knob on the back of the toilet I decided to turn it and amazingly enough fixed it! Well, at least it turned the water off.
The next day, rather than call the maintenance people, I decided to try to fix it. What if there WAS a knob to turn that would fix it? I turned the water back on and after getting a face full of water, discovered that there was a hole in the water line that connected the toilet to the wall. Not fixable....at least by me.
My maintenance people were able to quickly fix it today and I now no longer have a fountain toilet. I had been putting off calling them to give me time to clean up my room so they wouldn't trip all over the clothes in my room to get to the bathroom. Unfortunately you can only go so long without using the bathroom before needing to call maintenance.
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