To need a working toilet?

[Fondofindoorplumbing]

I’m waiting for the flat I bought to be ready and a friend invited me to stay in a separate suite attached to her house for a month. I said I could rent or stay in a hotel, but she insisted. Turns out her husband is not happy at all about this, but I didn’t find out till I’d moved all my stuff and elderly cat here. (He just doesn’t like people much, he also fussed about her daughter staying for a few months).

Within a day I realised the toilet didn’t work properly. Every time I used it I had to take the back off and fiddle with it to get it to stop running. It’s bloody loud, right next to the bedroom.

Last night the fiddling stopped working and now it’s just running constantly. I’m afraid it will come up with new tricks and flood, or not flush at all.

Via text my friend okayed me getting a plumber in and me paying for it. After I’d arranged that and an hour before the plumber is due, she’s just texted back that her husband says to leave it and keep taking the back off & he’ll have a look when he gets home later tonight. At 10:00pm (we are not in the UK).

But if he can’t fix it (& if he could, wouldn’t he have already?) we are all at work tomorrow (I am off today) so I wouldn’t have a working toilet till Thursday.

I don’t think that’s reasonable and am tired of going to cafes to use the loo.

Is it reasonable to get the plumber in and then say “sorry,
missed your text, it’s fixed now”?

Sadly it is his house so he is quite entitled to say no to the plumber however inconvenient and pigheaded of him. To be honest the longer you stay the more pigheaded he is going to get. I would cut my losses and try and find elsewhere to stay.

It’s only 3 more weeks though & they’ll be away for a week during which time I’ll catsit their cat.

Would you pretend you hadn’t seen the text saying no to the plumber? I need to pee!

And trying to find somewhere to stay mid-month is going to be next to impossible. It’s a tourist town with a massive rental shortage.

I generally agree with@purplecorkheart, yanbu, but it's their home. It's bad of your friend to agree to something her partner doesn't want, and you'll be stuck in the middle. Whilst making plans to relocate i would also be sorely tempted to go ahead and not see the text. It will leave things more tense in the household though if you do.

Just call in the plumber and pay for it.

Just fill a bucket from the bath or shower and use it to flush the lav.
Then you have a working toilet.

@dudsville apparently he said yes to me staying in the suite, but then decided he didn’t like the idea.

If it was a non working shower or bath I’d put up with it and bathe elsewhere, but it’s a toilet for goodness sakes!

@2bazookas but it won’t stop running & is very very old so I’m worried what else might go wrong with it.

We had issues with our doing this. As temporary fix you can turn the water off at the inlet pipe, there's a little screw which turns 45 degrees on ours. The turn it back on after flushing to fill the cistern. PITA but stops the noise at least.

@amylou8 I tried this, but it’s very tight and though I’ve managed it on other toilets, this one won’t budge. So at
least a plumber could maybe fix that.