If your home was built in the last 5 or 6 years, check your toilet tanks...
If the toilet was made by Vortens, you need to see this. This exact thing happened to one of ours last November. We were on vacation and our house would have been flooded if the friend we had watching the house hadn't caught it...
Vortens faulty tanks lead to flooding
If the toilet was made by Vortens, you need to see this. This exact thing happened to one of ours last November. We were on vacation and our house would have been flooded if the friend we had watching the house hadn't caught it...
Vortens faulty tanks lead to flooding
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Thousands of toilets in homes all over the country, and many in the Houston area, are defective and prone to cracking. It has happened in dozens of homes, causing thousands of dollars in damage from leaking water.
"I've been doing this nearly 30 years, and I've never seen any toilet fail like this," general contractor Mike Teeple said.
Teeple installed 2 Vortens toilets in a client's Copperfield home in 2013. When one of the tanks cracked a few months later, he thought it was odd.
When the second one cracked in an upstairs bathroom flooding the home, he was more than skeptical.
"Toilets don't fail like that," Teeple told consumer expert Amy Davis. "They don't crack for no reason."
Channel 2 Investigates found the Vortens toilets cracking in homes from The Woodlands to Pearland, Copperfield to Garden Oaks. Teeple blogged about the problem, and he said he receives about two complaints a week about the toilets cracking across the country.