Or at least the broken piece of shit toilet in my apartment.

I wake up at 5am sunday (my off day) to my husband panicking... he's been plunging the toilet for an hour, and finally turned the water off and given up. Apparently the toilet is overflowing/ constantly running at the freaking drop of a hat.... NOTHING in there to clog it up. NOTHING! Maintenance comes after about an hour, replaces all the hardware in the tank, snakes the fucker out (coming up with nothing!!!) and tells us all is fixed. OK. Clean the bathroom floor a few times, wash all of our towels that were tossed on the floor in the original flood, and go on with life.

This morning, I get home from work at 7am. Use the bathroom. Seriously, I pee, flush, and walk away, but as I start to turn off the lights I hear *woosh* and what the fuck do you know, the water is sloshing over the top. FUCK! Maintenance rolls in about 45 minutes later, with a plunger. I give the guy my "you're fucking kidding" look, and he proceeds to plunge the toilet. I can plunge the damn toilet, if that were the issue I wouldn't have called you! There's something horribly wrong with our shitter! Anyway, after some manic plunging, he tells me it's working fine and leaves. I give a test flush and it is flushing really weird, I don't know how to explain but I know it's not acting right....

So I expect to be calling maintenance every 24 fucking hours until they actually fix the thing or give up and bring a new toilet (it seems after 3 calls about 1 particular appliance they just say fuck it and replace it).

I also hate that this is happening outside office hours so I can't just go sloshing in there with my piss stained shoes and ruin their carpet.


AAARRRGGG!

Posted by IrishLady Or at least the broken piece of shit toilet in my apartment. I wake up at 5am sunday (my off day) to my husband panicking... he's been plunging the toilet for an hour, and finally turned the water off and given up. Apparently the toilet is overflowing/ constantly running at the freaking drop of a hat.... NOTHING in there to clog it up. NOTHING! Maintenance comes after about an hour, replaces all the hardware in the tank, snakes the fucker out (coming up with nothing!!!) and tells us all is fixed. OK. Clean the bathroom floor a few times, wash all of our towels that were tossed on the floor in the original flood, and go on with life. This morning, I get home from work at 7am. Use the bathroom. Seriously, I pee, flush, and walk away, but as I start to turn off the lights I hear *woosh* and what the fuck do you know, the water is sloshing over the top. FUCK! Maintenance rolls in about 45 minutes later, with a plunger. I give the guy my "you're fucking kidding" look, and he proceeds to plunge the toilet. I can plunge the damn toilet, if that were the issue I wouldn't have called you! There's something horribly wrong with our shitter! Anyway, after some manic plunging, he tells me it's working fine and leaves. I give a test flush and it is flushing really weird, I don't know how to explain but I know it's not acting right.... So I expect to be calling maintenance every 24 fucking hours until they actually fix the thing or give up and bring a new toilet (it seems after 3 calls about 1 particular appliance they just say fuck it and replace it). I also hate that this is happening outside office hours so I can't just go sloshing in there with my piss stained shoes and ruin their carpet. AAARRRGGG!

Sounds more like a line problem than a toilet problem. Ya on the first floor?

Ughh that sucks. We have a line problem at work that the landlords are too lazy and stupid to fix so every few months shit spews up from the drain on the floor and leaves a nice thick coat of excrement all over the place. This also is left for a few days because the town is too lazy to come and do anything about it. Also since our store closes later than every other store in the strip mall by 4 hours so if we need to go to the bathroom we have to walk quarter of a mile to the nearest open store.

there is something stuck in the toilet itself.
all the plunging and snaking in the world probably won't get it out. the plunger moves water past the stuck item and the snake pushes right past it. as soon as you lush with paper it gets hung up inside and start to clog.
just buy a new toilet.

Or, of they've installed a rubber ring, the ring might have shifted/shrunk, remove toilet, replace ring at least (if not the whole toilet as you can get a dual flush for under a hundred now) with a wax ring.

Posted by atomx Or, of they've installed a rubber ring, the ring might have shifted/shrunk, remove toilet, replace ring at least (if not the whole toilet as you can get a dual flush for under a hundred now) with a wax ring.

*don't buy the cheapest toilet you can find!
i don't recommend buying a toilet under $200, the parts used in cheap toilets won't last more then a year or two, plus they tend to plug-up a lot easier.

I'm on the 2nd (top) floor. All was well until this morning, I come home to the same thing. I just got off the phone with Maintenance, they know I'm not happy. I really don't know what their next course of action will be this morning, I wouldn't be surprised to see them come to my door with a plunger or a toilet in hand....

Posted by IrishLady I'm on the 2nd (top) floor. All was well until this morning, I come home to the same thing. I just got off the phone with Maintenance, they know I'm not happy. I really don't know what their next course of action will be this morning, I wouldn't be surprised to see them come to my door with a plunger or a toilet in hand....

have a real plumber come in a look at the problem! its obvious that the maint man doesn't know whats going on here.

If they replaced the toilet and the line was snaked and it still overflows, likely the line isn't vented properly of the vent has become clogged by dirt, grass birds nests etc.

The line needs a proper vent to drain properly.