ULPT REQUEST. How to break a toilet so my landlord will replace it.?
Posted by _Laughing_Man@reddit | UnethicalLifeProTips | View on Reddit | 28 comments
How can I break my toilet so my landlord will replace it WITHOUT BEING OBVIOUSLY BROKEN ON PURPOSE?
I have a terrible low flow toilet made for toddlers. It takes on average 4-5 flushes to actually flush a bowel movement, and I have to separately flush TP. I also have to hold my package to prevent my penis from touching the inside of the bowl. Madness.
Landlord won't replace unless broken, so help a brother out.
MeanCricket749@reddit
I cant tell you what to do about water boarding your wiener, other than say Congratulations! With water regulations and efficiency standards, breaking the toilet will do nothing but net you another low flow toilet and if your scam isn’t done well, possibly an eviction. Here is what you need to do to get past this situation.
The toilet probably has a standard tank on the back, just remove the lid, measure the plastic tube that comes up the center of the tank. Usually it’s like 3/4 or 1”. You want the OD measurement not the ID. If it has a small plastic ring holding the small tube, try to twist that off of the tube. If it doesn’t come off, then take your measurements using the outer ring instead of the rigid tube. Take that measurement and go to home depot or even auto zone. Get a 1’ strip of pipe with an ID as close to the toilet fill tube OD. You will probably not get anything exact. But get as close as possible. Grab a package of screw clamps while you’re there. Now go home and test your new hose. If it doesn’t slip over the rigid pipe in the tank, don’t stress it. Cut a small slice into the end of the new flexible hose, start with 1/4-1/2” slice. Test it now. If it seems to start but doesn’t go completely, that’s what you want. Now coat the inside of the flexible pipe with dawn dish detergent. Or some other thick soap like laundry detergent. Use your fingers to wet the rigid pipe top. Remove the small fill tube and just let it lay to the side. Ohh you may have to turn the water off behind the toilet just so you’re not listening to it run. Now with the rigid pipe wet at the tip, take your rubber hose and slowly and gently rotate it while applying downward pressure onto the rigid pipe. If it doesn’t go over it easily, remove it and use a cigarette lighter to heat the flexible tube. You may have to cut your split a little larger. I wouldn’t go any more past 3/4” max. Now with the tube heated up, gently but firmly twist the hose down over the rigid pipe. Now turn the water on and check to see if it is leaking. If the water isn’t coming on because the water level then push down on the floaty thing. Water will fill the tank. Be careful. The small hose I told you to lay to the side will spray water now. Once the water has filled up over the joint where the flexible hose meets the rigid pipe, release the float. Listen to see if water is draining into the rigid pipe. If it’s a small trickle, that’s fine. If it’s still flowing Heavily, attempt to reseat the flexible tube. If it’s just a trickle, slide a clamp down to where the clamp will grip the flexible tube and hold it onto the ring of the rigid pipe. The splice in the pipe will hold the clamp but you will need to take the clamp a little lower just to get a good seal below the water line. use a screwdriver to tighten the screw on the clamp. Tighten it to where it’s snug fitting but not so tight that it breaks the rigid pipe.
Now pay attention to where the water line is. Toss in some toilet paper. Like you would if you had just smoked a bowl and left your worries behind. Now flush the toilet. Did it flush like you want? If so great. Adjust the float up to where it fills then tank to the level the water was at, or a little higher. Over you’ve got the water level adjusted, gently cut the flexible tube to about an inch or two above the newly adjusted water level. On we that is done, the fill tube you laid aside earlier, just stick it down inside the “extension” you just added. It will be fine, if it has a clip, spread the clip to get it to hold onto the tube material. Once that is done and the tube is cut to the right length, the replace the tank lid and your done. That should last 5-6 years before you need to adjust it. When you hear the toilet running every hour or so? It’s time to adjust the tube. Just pull it off and reapply soap and slip it back down over the rigid tube.
Neither-Ad-9068@reddit
You Change the Flusher.Not the porcelain. Wth
tedrodgers33@reddit
Pour boiling water in it, cracked bowl
Wanderlustwednesday@reddit
If you break it, they will probably just replace it with the same thing. You’re better off just buying a new one. They aren’t that expensive and your landlord might even pay for all or part of it since you saved them time doing it yourself.
w00tabaga@reddit
You can pick up a toilet for $100 and they aren’t hard to swap. Might be easier than trying to convince a landlord to do it.
Porcelain is tough to break and the internal parts of a toilet are generally easy to fix or swap new parts. That is, unless it’s really old and there’s no parts left nor a aftermarket one that will really work. To me, doing some research on the toilet and doing that is you’re only bet
New-Geezer@reddit
Repeadly pour boiling water in the toilet so it really heats up well. Then all at once pour a ton of ice water into it. It should crack.
Shell-Fire@reddit
This person knows, man.
b0sscrab@reddit
Wow a situation where piss disc are useless!
This is a tricky one. Porcelain toilets are tough as nails. If you can somehow cause a hairline crack somewhere, would make it very unsafe since porcelain is very sharp when it breaks.
You can get a toilet for under $200 and it’s very easy to install if all unethical avenues are closed
Shell-Fire@reddit
I put in a new sink faucet and a new dining room light fixture. They see it. No one says anything. I'm gonna take my light fixture with me, so I saved the old one in a closet. Just buy one of those higher seated toilets, and get someone to install- if it makes you happy.
zamfire@reddit
Yea replacing it themselves is going to be the best option. The landlord will probably just replace it with another baby toilet. Better if OP replaced it themselves and got a real toilet.
Quirky-Invite7664@reddit
I agree.
Tikkinger@reddit
mexican "all you can eat"
AlxChltn@reddit
Toilets are usually made from cheap, easily replaced service parts. Except for the porcelain. It would be a shame if one of the screws that holds the tank to the base got torqued down too hard and cracked the tank. You should definitely have a drip bucket handy just in case this were ever to happen
FreshwaterFryMom@reddit
Please someone tell me the squeeze but with a dishwasher
ChefArtorias@reddit
You've already tried adjusting the tank to provide more water per flush?
shinigamink@reddit
Change the toilet yourself and when you leave take it with you.
handicrappi@reddit
You should know that it's dangerous to sit on a broken toilet, it may crack further from under you and cut an artery (you will bleed out)
So if you figure out a way to break it, do not use it anymore
BoxNo5564@reddit
I had a toilet in a share house a heavy fake skull fell into the toilet and cracked it and I just sealed it up with some waterproof gap filler and smoothed it over. Did I kill the next tenant?
Mr_Tangent@reddit
Yes, the police are on their way.
BoxNo5564@reddit
my own prison by Creed plays softly
SlickMcFav0rit3@reddit
Assuming your landlord pays your water bill:
You can put a bit of debris inside the rubber gasket that closes the fill valve to refill the toilet. The toilet will now run constantly. This will cost your landlord a lot of money (I have to pay my water bill and was surprised how expensive it is).
You tell your landlord "the old terrible toilet I told you about is now running constantly, maybe it's leaking into the floor. We should just replace it"
Since a decent toilet is cheap, you could offer to pitch in $ to get a mid tier one
NC-Tacoma-Guy@reddit
Overtighten the bolts holding it down until it cracks the porcelain.
ihasclevernamesee@reddit
DO NOT DO THIS
lantech@reddit
The toilet itself is mostly a solid piece of porcelain. Pretty difficult to break and make it look like it "just happened".
diablodeldragoon@reddit
There's not a ulpt for this because you've already approached the landlord.
Go back to him and propose splitting the cost of the toilet 75\25 with you paying the 75%. On the assumption that you are able to do the installation yourself and a plumber need not be hired. A modern toilet uses less water to flush, and if you do a dual flush model, it'll use even less for liquids. The water savings will cover your investment in a year or two.
tetlee@reddit
Never had a low flow, can you just change the flapper? Or adjust the fill level?
b0sscrab@reddit
Sounds like it’s an actual mini toilet for toddlers since his saggy balls are touching the water. They have them in daycares. Not sure why one would be in a residential. They typically are double the price
miraculum_one@reddit
If you've already complained about it and then it suddenly breaks, the landlord will have a short list of suspects.