So... bringing the peeps up to date... we were able to have the errant terlet repaired, not replaced. A Real Deal plumber said the new tank innards were fine but the seating of the tank on the terlet itself was faulty. He replaced the gasket and hardware for that, and all is well. Big sigh of relief. Well, a big sigh of relief for THAT adventure, because:
On the very day the terlet was being fixed, our washer shat the bed. It's a 13-year-old front loader, and we noticed little bits of water coming from underneath it. And then a little more water. And that's one thing you never want to notice. Right? Especially when the machines are in a laundry room on the second floor with the bedrooms. That was a deliberate decision on my part when the house was being built, and I've never regretted it. No two-story trips to the basement, etc. Fortunately, that room sits over the garage, not an indoor room, because enough water seeped through to cause a light stain on the garage ceiling. No matter, that can be patched later. BUT --- the laundry room floor must be re-tiled, AND the carpet in my closet on the other side of the wall must be replaced because some water also crept underneath the baseboard into that room.
These two re-floorings will take place on Thursday, and the temporary removal of everything in those two small rooms is quite the challenge. And of course there's the small matter of replacing the washer. That part's been taken care of, and a new TOP-loader will be delivered either on Friday or sometime next week. Enough people convinced us that front loaders are sufficiently prone to eventual failure after ten years, that we're going back to the older method this time around. It doesn't matter in the least that the two machines won't "match".
