Life Update

[pameladean]

Eh, again. Some money is coming in now, which is a considerable relief, although it is much too light for the bore of the matter. Also things keep breaking. Five hundred dollars to fix the car. It's good we had the money, but really we had other plans for it. And the upstairs toilet tank apparently has a crack in it, as it is dripping water at a less-than-glacial rate. I've got a plant trough under it now (sans plants; no light in there), but before that the water managed to work its way through the floor and then through the the plaster of the bathroom ceiling underneath and hit people in the head, making an alarming blister-like effect in the ceiling as it went.

The water is not coming from the water line or anywhere in the connections between that and the tank. It's just dripping off the bottom of the tank.

My mother suggested drying out the tank and putting some epoxy in it, but I don't know if that is what one ought to do. I tend to fall back on plumbers at the slightest provocation, but this is easier when one is not worried about money.

Pamela

Comments

[branwynelf.livejournal.com]

What if you were to add food dye to the tank?

That might help you track where the water is coming from - if it is in fact coming from a seal (hopefully leaving an obvious thin trail of water from where it's leaking to where it's dripping) or directly through a crack in the porcelain? If that's the case, sealing the crack would be easier because you'd be able to see exactly where it was, or you'd know if you just needed a new rubber plug for the seal.

Did that make sense?