Random Flushing

Christopher Horrell

Dec 18, 2006

Lately, for the last week or so, my toilet has be flushing all by itself. The weird thing is, there doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with it. There are no leaks, from what I can tell, and there is nothing obviously broken, it just…flushes. These are the problems I hate, when nothing is obviously broken and the actual symptom doesn’t tell you anything. And believe me, I’ve looked into this and I just don’t get it. I’m going to give it a thorough inspection later this week and let you know what happens.

I know, I know, you’re just dying to find out, but please bear with me, I’ve been busy.

Carry on!

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