We have a leaky toilet valve in our rental condo. It's old and will be replaced, but not until some time next week when the condo office shuts off the water in the building. In the meantime, we put a small bucket under the valve but it gets full in about half a day. Is there any way to seal it until it gets replaced? For example, can it be some sort of material, spray or not, that can be used to coat the whole darn valve? Some sort of caulk-type compound that would harden and not let any water out? Otherwise we will have to drive across town twice a day to empty the bucket... Thank you in advance for any pointers!

Hi, We have shower/tub have never used in the 3 years, 7 months we have lived in this house. We happened to notice yesterday the tub had a dried brown residue (I've attached a picture). It looks like it would have come up through the drain and splattered as there were splatter marks more than halfway up the tub, but because the very top of the stopper was fairly clean I can say the level didn't rise that high. My first thought was maybe it was the septic backing up. We haven't pumped since we first moved in (guy said for our size tank and number of people in it, we likely wouldn't need to until 5 years). However, there are no other signs the septic might be an issue. It's also the furthest bathroom from the tank. Thanks for any insight.