diff --git a/api-daemon/pvcapid/flaskapi.py b/api-daemon/pvcapid/flaskapi.py
index e2673132..fc042d59 100755
--- a/api-daemon/pvcapid/flaskapi.py
+++ b/api-daemon/pvcapid/flaskapi.py
@@ -6061,7 +6061,7 @@ class API_Storage_Ceph_Volume_Root(Resource):
             reqargs.get("pool", None),
             reqargs.get("volume", None),
             reqargs.get("size", None),
-            reqargs.get("force", False),
+            bool(strtobool(reqargs.get("force", "False"))),
         )
 
 
diff --git a/api-daemon/pvcapid/helper.py b/api-daemon/pvcapid/helper.py
index fde22756..90a1550c 100755
--- a/api-daemon/pvcapid/helper.py
+++ b/api-daemon/pvcapid/helper.py
@@ -1969,7 +1969,7 @@ def ceph_volume_list(zkhandler, pool=None, limit=None, is_fuzzy=True):
 
 
 @ZKConnection(config)
-def ceph_volume_add(zkhandler, pool, name, size, force_flag):
+def ceph_volume_add(zkhandler, pool, name, size, force_flag=False):
     """
     Add a Ceph RBD volume to the PVC Ceph storage cluster.
     """