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Had a toilet supply line bust while I was outside mowing and my wife slept through the whole thing. The plastic nut looked like it had a stress crack. But anyway I walked in from mowing and heard it and yelled "how can you sleep through that?!" Water went through the whole house before I could shut it off. New carpet, some new furniture. It was a paid. All this happened during Covid too.

Sweet Kitten Feet said:

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Had a toilet supply line bust while I was outside mowing and my wife slept through the whole thing. The plastic nut looked like it had a stress crack. But anyway I walked in from mowing and heard it and yelled "how can you sleep through that?!" Water went through the whole house before I could shut it off. New carpet, some new furniture. It was a paid. All this happened during Covid too.

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I always recommend metal top toilet supplies. They can be found at the plumbing supply stores. I've seen way too many near-catastrophic floods because of those plastic hoses.

American Plumbing said:

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Sweet Kitten Feet said:

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Had a toilet supply line bust while I was outside mowing and my wife slept through the whole thing. The plastic nut looked like it had a stress crack. But anyway I walked in from mowing and heard it and yelled "how can you sleep through that?!" Water went through the whole house before I could shut it off. New carpet, some new furniture. It was a paid. All this happened during Covid too.

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I always recommend metal top toilet supplies. They can be found at the plumbing supply stores. I've seen way too many near-catastrophic floods because of those plastic hoses.

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Yep. Learned my lesson.

Sweet Kitten Feet said:

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Had a toilet supply line bust while I was outside mowing and my wife slept through the whole thing. The plastic nut looked like it had a stress crack. But anyway I walked in from mowing and heard it and yelled "how can you sleep through that?!" Water went through the whole house before I could shut it off. New carpet, some new furniture. It was a paid. All this happened during Covid too.

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Weird.....this exact thing happened to me but was probably my most convenient (or at least lucky) plumbing near catastrophe.

Was putting my son to bed, walked down the upstairs hall, literally right outside the bathroom door, hear something and water spraying, go in and the supply line nut cracked and it busted off, sprayed water everywhere. Never seen anything like that but was right there and shut the water off within 30 seconds.

Could have been a disaster. I mean we'd been out of town and just gotten home that evening, could have been running for hours or days vs. seconds.

I replaced every toilet supply line that weekend.

Came home one day and the driveway was wet. Thought it as weird that it had rained but it was cloudy and it was only wet, not puddling. Next day there was more and I knew it hadn't rained. Followed the wet spot to a corner of my house and started digging. Made it below the foundation and found the leak was just traveling between the vapor barrier and the slab. I really didn't have the money to pay for it to be fixed but also knew it could be basically anywhere in the slab, so gave up and called a plumber. The guys that came out were actually pretty impressed with how much I dug, so I guess that was a very small win.

Wound up having pex run from the meter to the house and throughout the attic. And then all the sheetrock and painting to fix all the holes... Suprisingly insurance covered it. I alost laughed it off when my wife suggested insurance because, in my head, this was clearly a maintenance issue that just happends somtimes in ~20-year-old houses. But beauce we noticed it suddenly, insurance was agreeable.

We went to Europe for two weeks in 2009. This was during a drought in Houston, so the ground was shifting and at some point it broke the main water connection to my house. Someone saw it and thankfully turned off the water for me. We came home after a long plane ride and our internal clock thinking it was in the middle of the night. Instead of having a nice hot shower and a relaxing evening, I instead had to make the repair in 100 degree weather just so that we would have water to our house.

Had the water supply line for the toilet in my 1-bathroom house fail on Thanksgiving Day when I was hosting. Thankfully there was a Sears hardware store open 20 miles away and I was able to get a replacement line before everyone showed up.

chickencoupe16 said:

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Came home one day and the driveway was wet. Thought it as weird that it had rained but it was cloudy and it was only wet, not puddling. Next day there was more and I knew it hadn't rained. Followed the wet spot to a corner of my house and started digging. Made it below the foundation and found the leak was just traveling between the vapor barrier and the slab. I really didn't have the money to pay for it to be fixed but also knew it could be basically anywhere in the slab, so gave up and called a plumber. The guys that came out were actually pretty impressed with how much I dug, so I guess that was a very small win.

Wound up having pex run from the meter to the house and throughout the attic. And then all the sheetrock and painting to fix all the holes... Suprisingly insurance covered it. I alost laughed it off when my wife suggested insurance because, in my head, this was clearly a maintenance issue that just happends somtimes in ~20-year-old houses. But beauce we noticed it suddenly, insurance was agreeable.

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That's awesome that the insurance covered it.

Ryan the Temp said:

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Had the water supply line for the toilet in my 1-bathroom house fail on Thanksgiving Day when I was hosting. Thankfully there was a Sears hardware store open 20 miles away and I was able to get a replacement line before everyone showed up.

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It seems toilet supply lines are a constant issue in most houses and always at an inconvenient time, most home owners don't even think about or inspect them for issues.
Thats why we only use metal top/ steel braided supply lines. In my 20+ years of plumbing I've had literally no issues with the hoses I've installed.

jamesf said:

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We went to Europe for two weeks in 2009. This was during a drought in Houston, so the ground was shifting and at some point it broke the main water connection to my house. Someone saw it and thankfully turned off the water for me. We came home after a long plane ride and our internal clock thinking it was in the middle of the night. Instead of having a nice hot shower and a relaxing evening, I instead had to make the repair in 100 degree weather just so that we would have water to our house.

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Dry ground is the worst when it comes to foundations and dirt ground in general.