Toilet Trouble

Last night I noticed that the carpet was wet in the bathroom. I thought at first that the girls had just splashed a lot during their evening bath, but after some investigation I found out that the water was coming from the toilet valve. We temporarily fixed the leak, but it was obvious that we were going to need to fix it permanently.

Becky has been dying to get rid of the carpet in the bathroom, so she decided that since we had to remove the toilet anyway, she'd replace it with linoleum. At first that didn't seem like such a big project, but once we got started we realized that the carpet went under the bathtub, stair supports and cabinets too. We ended up trimming the carpet back flush with everything that was too difficult to remove.

Once the toilet was off, we found the problem. The entire valve assembly had cracked and was leaking with each flush. We made a quick trip to the local RV shop in town and bought a replacement of the same brand (next model up). The new toilet is nice. Clean, a little larger and taller which is really nice for me...

The rest of the day was spent putting in linoleum and sealing all of the seams. We didn't get the stairs done, that will have to wait for another day.