so last night around NUMBER NUMBERam i m woken up by a loud craaack followed by one of the most dreaded sounds a homeowner ever hears vast quantities of water spilling onto the floor the water is coming from the bathroom the toilet specifically turns out the water cistern on the top of the toilet had cracked down the side and was spilling out all the water so after shutting off the water and mopping up i was left to ponder what are the odds of having mechanical failure of a large rectangular porcelain bowl in the absence of any visible stressors like someone striking it with a sledgehammer we hadn t done anything unusual to the toilet in the recent past just normal use i ve never heard of this happening to anyone i know the guts yeah they fail all the time but the storage bowl never geesh jim URL 