Toilet wobble? Landlord's fix: carpet over tile.

You told your landlord the toilet wasn’t level and needed caulking or a plunger adjustment. He solved the problem by installing carpet over the tiled floor. That is a sentence I did not expect to be coherent, and yet here we are.

Root cause analysis: plumbing problems are hard; textiles are comfortable. Rather than replace a $10 wax ring (20 minutes, two hands, no drama), the landlord reclassified the issue as “flooring aesthetics” and covered the evidence in plush. As one helpful Redditor observed, “You might just have the most landlordy landlord who ever landlorded.” Inventory, for the record: 1) toilet still probably wobbling, 2) tile entombed under polyester, 3) future mold colony forming its own HOA.

This is not a fix. Carpets trap moisture, hide leaks, ruin tiles, and make your bathroom smell like a moist thrift store. Take photos, email them to the landlord (timestamped), and if you care about your deposit, insist on the actual plumbing repair. Or accept your upgrade to ‘soggy living’ and enjoy the new waterbed feature. Either way, congratulations: the problem still exists, it’s just now more textile.