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ian_c
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Oct 17, 2015

Overflowing Toilet

This has been some trip! Tonight we're in Gallup and during dinner we hear a "thump" that sounds like it has come from outside. A visual check reveals nothing and I come back inside to my fork.
About this point, my wife who is sitting across from me, facing the bedroom, says "My God!" and races up the stairs to the toilet. Water is flowing down the stairs out of the bathroom. When I look, the toilet is full of water (clean) but pressing the foot pedal doesn't flush it away - it appears that the holding tank is full!
I race outside, turn off the water, and then use a pot to empty the water in the toilet down one of the sinks.
We've now tidied up but as we don''t have a waste connection here I'll have to wait until tomorrow to dump it.
(Fortunately we dumped yesterday and the waste tank got a good hosing out. There was nothing in it when we unhitched.)
So.. somehow water has got into the waste tank. No I did not connect the hose to the waste cleanout connection.
I have no idea how this could have happened and all suggestions are appreciated!
Many thanks!
Ian
  • Here is one that got me some time back: Someone... took a shower and didn't turn the faucets off, they closed the valve on the shower head. I've never seen one of these that doesn't leak some. Over time, gray tank filled, tub filled and overflowed. There wasn't much overflow when I found it and no real damage. Another reason to turn pump odd when not in use.
  • Maybe not relevant to the thread at hand, but there is definitely more to this story than was told. In reality, it is impossible to fill a house turlet to overflowing,.....unless of course the drain was completely clogged.

    itguy08 wrote:
    RJsfishin wrote:
    I think most all RVs are plumbed same as houses anymore w/ pex and ABS.
    But different situations for sure. Like the very common problem of a turlet valve leaking in a house doesn't fill and overflow into the house :).


    Oh yes it does happen in the house too. Friends went out in the AM to work and came home to the hose flooded because the toilet valve was leaking and overflowed it all day. IIRC the damage was over $100k as it took out their kitchen, family room, and basement

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