Hi everyone New poster!
I would consider myself below a newbie in the plumbing world. This is my story any and all help needed.
So last night my wife and I are watching the Packers/Bears game and all the sudden we hear a loud bang. I look at my wife we think some one is breaking in. I run up stairs and hear water running in the guest toilet. We never use this toilet and what do I see? Out tank lid is almost completely knocked off the tank?? What looks to be the fill valve has "exploded" Or just shot up and kicked the tank off. Does this happen? If so any reason?
I shut the water off and drained the toilet. I pushed the valve back down in its rightful position turned the water back on and flushed with no problem. I drained the toilet again and shut the water off. Any thoughts would be wonderful.
The toilet is stamped and dated from 1990 in the tank. I'm not sure who made the tank but that's all I got.
At this point I will be replacing the toilet 4GPF -->1.28GPF
Now im just very curious with what happened. Is it from pressure because I never use it? Is my water pressure high? We have been in the house for 5 months now and it just happened 20 minuets after my wife got out of the shower. Any help would be awesome!
I would consider myself below a newbie in the plumbing world. This is my story any and all help needed.
So last night my wife and I are watching the Packers/Bears game and all the sudden we hear a loud bang. I look at my wife we think some one is breaking in. I run up stairs and hear water running in the guest toilet. We never use this toilet and what do I see? Out tank lid is almost completely knocked off the tank?? What looks to be the fill valve has "exploded" Or just shot up and kicked the tank off. Does this happen? If so any reason?
I shut the water off and drained the toilet. I pushed the valve back down in its rightful position turned the water back on and flushed with no problem. I drained the toilet again and shut the water off. Any thoughts would be wonderful.
The toilet is stamped and dated from 1990 in the tank. I'm not sure who made the tank but that's all I got.
At this point I will be replacing the toilet 4GPF -->1.28GPF
Now im just very curious with what happened. Is it from pressure because I never use it? Is my water pressure high? We have been in the house for 5 months now and it just happened 20 minuets after my wife got out of the shower. Any help would be awesome!