Toilet leaking into kitchen - it is emergency yes?

[WishIWasSomewhereElse]

We rent. I noticed after flushing the loo that I could hear water behind the cooker/kitchen cupboard (where the soil pipe comes from the upstairs bathroom). I could also see water splashing.

I phoned the landlord who told me to turn the cooker off at the mains fuse box, then asked if it was an emergency and if we could cope with it till next week.

To be honest the thought of water from the loo, running behind the cupboards and cooker, not being able to use the cooker for days doesn't appeal.

I managed to move the cooker. There is a lot of polystyrene that was in front of the stack (never noticed it before), most of it is lying in pieces on the floor, and when the toiler is flushed you can see water dripping.

I filled a bucket with water and poured down (without flushing), to see if was related to the cistern instead of the pan, but that also has water running down.

I'm scared as I was told if they come out and it's not an emergency I will be charged £££ which I can't afford, but don't like the idea of water running into the kitchen every time nature calls. Also if I was told to turn the cooker off at the fuse box, surely that is an emergency?

Wow some landlords really are terrible eh . Toilet water running into your kitchen . Can’t use toilet . Can’t use cooker . Grim .

The first rental property DH and I lived in, we went round the 'garden' the first day and filled a big bag with all the dead rats.

Two very lovely gentlemen have just left! One was an electrician, who checked over the cooker but said it was fine, followed by the plumber.

The plumber is coming back tomorrow, he said he doesn't think that 'solids' would leak, as some is going down the pipe, but it is leaking from the sink as well as the bath, so the leak is somewhere under the toilet (the toilet is fine), so it needs the floor removing/the boxed in part removing).

We had problems with the bathroom fitters years ago - they removed part of the stack, and due to their love of seal mastic (they sealed the cistern with it, as well as the bath panels, flooring etc).

The only electric problem is the wires to the ignition for a gas cooker - which I never realised was there - it is useless, they fitted an ignition for a gas cooker, but there is NO gas supply to the kitchen (same people who did the bathroom).

So he has left us tonight, only because he doesn't want to start and 'bodge' it when the shops are shut.

There is no smell in the kitchen - I have a very keen nose, but will bleach everything after he's finished, and I'm not going to eat a dinner tonight .

Thanks for all the advice and help, I'm pretty useless on my own.

@Lineofconcepcion but she's already said in her posts that the pipe is behind her cooker, therefore next to her electrics.

So it clearly is an emergency and no need for the pontificating about it being "only a bit of poo" as if she should just ignore it until her landlord decides to pull his finger out of his arse!

Crosspost @WishIWasSomewhereElse I'm glad to hear you've had the plumber and electrician out. Fingers crossed it's something quick and simple for them to sort. Guess it's takeaway meals for the next few days then to avoid cooking in there until sorted!