On 8/5/2013 2:06 PM, Robert Green wrote:
"Rebel1" wrote in message news:PENLt.239313$%

(As an aside, parts of this house are way out of square, but you can't
see it. For example, I placed one end of a 4' level against the wall
just above the base molding held it vertically. The wall at the top of
the level is a full 3/4 inch away!)

Didn't you have window closing problems that I thought might be related to
settling?

Have you checked the input connection through the tank wall?. If that leaks
it can work it way down to the base of the toilet quite easily.

I just put a level on my shower drain pipe (about a 6' run) and found that
it's negatively pitched. The huge cast iron waste stack that it's connected
to apparently held its ground as the house settled around it. That slowed
caused the shower drain pitch to go towards zero inches per foot and causes
it to clog up regularly. The fix eludes me. )-:

--
Bobby G.


The water supply is about 5.25" above the floor. It connects to the
bottom of the tank, which is 15" above the floor. Everything is dry there.

The off-vertical wall I mentioned is an interior wall (no window). The
outside ones are much closer to vertical. A uniform slope (i.e., the
same on both side of the window) wouldn't cause a problem.

The house was built in 1969 on a slab. When I bought it in 2000, I
immediately changed all window, mainly to save energy. Perhaps the
original ones had become hard to operate, but that was not a factor.