The toilet runneth over

[superbadgirl]

Of course there's a bona fide maintenance emergency on the one weekend S. has gone out of town. The dude down the hall flushed his toilet and it kept running and running and running. I thought he meant a slow trickle like happens when the chain becomes detached from the lever, but as it turns out, the guy has a commercial toilet. No tank, no lever, no chain. No shut-off valve!

And on a selfish note, this happened just as I was getting ready to run a few errands. Now I'm stuck until qualified help arrives. Bah.

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[khek.livejournal.com]

We had that happen at the library about a month ago on a Saturday...I had to call the poor maintenance guy in.

It's happened twice since then, and he was gone, so both times I shut off the water. There's a cap on the back side pipe of the toilet that comes off with a wrench, then a simple screwdriver valve shut off. Nice to know I got my master's in library science to work as a temporary plumber.

But it looks like your maintenance guy came, so you probably know all this already.