-----Original Message----- From: Big Bubba [mailto: snipped-for-privacy@aol.com] Posted At: Monday, October 27, 2008 2:07 PM Posted To: alt.home.repair Conversation: Toilet Worms Subject: Toilet Worms
I've got a toilet that leaks at the base of the toilet. I know I need to install a new wax ring. No problem there.
My issue is that when it leaks, out come these little worms (nasty, I know.) After I remove the toilet how can I get rid of these creatures?
TIA. BR
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Here's something that has always puzzled me. It was in the late
70's/early 80's in an old house (supposed to be hooked to city water and sewer). The bathtub backed up with raw sewage. Then some months later the owner reported that there were snakes inside the toilet tank. I passed the story off as owner's daughter reporting it was known to 'tell tales'.
However, when the house was sold the new owner experienced the same thing...snakes in the toilet tank. Supposedly the water in the tank was clear and clean, but no one could figure out how the snakes were getting in there. The water bill didn't indicate excess as in a broken pipe, perhaps.
When I saw this post about 'worms', I thought perhaps that might have been the answer...however they were not small little worms....they were big and described as snakes. The newspaper even ran an article about the house.
Anyone ever hear of something like this?