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francesblarge · Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 5 Location: Hampshire

When flushed, the toilet cistern which was installed only a few months ago releases insufficient water to flush properly. Is there some adjustment I can make?

AlanE · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 11:28 am Post subject:

Once upon a time there was only the standard basic flushing unit used in this country. Now there is a multitude!

Need to know what sort you have in order to give any really meaningful advise.

Alan

francesblarge · Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 5 Location: Hampshire

Thank you - sorry but haven't a clue, so that's not much help. all I've got is 'Elizabethan close coupled' as a description and I think the maker is Sanitex. I'll try to get hold of their catalogue. The similars ones on the floor above and on the floor below both work properly.

Dan Robinson · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2003 1:46 pm Post subject:

Does it have a lever, or a push button? Inside the cistern, does the water reach the line stamped on the back?

If it is a push button, I suspect you are either pushing the wong one; or the mecahnism is only releasing the water amount designed for "number 1's".

If you have a lever, try holding it down for longer when you flush.

francesblarge · Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 5 Location: Hampshire

Thank you so much for your help! The toilet has a lever, but it doesn't make any difference how long you hold it down. Unlike the other two identical models, which release most of the water in the cistern, only about 1/4 of the water is released before the mechanism trips again.

Dan Robinson · Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 10:44 am Post subject:

I suspect then that you have a faulty syphon on your new loo. The installer should have put isolation valves on it for easy servcing, so give him a quick ring and ask him to come round and check it for you with a new syphon to hand (they're not expensive).

Chances are it is just a split diaphram, but replacing that single part is harder work than just ploping a new unit inside thecistern.

thescruff · Moderator Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 4619 Location: Bath

On the stem of the syphon just below the water level, there sometime is a plastic plug which fills two small holes, check your good one with the bad one to see if it's A, fitted or B, pushed right in.

Look for a piece of plastic about 40mm x 10mm probable black.

scruff. Cool

Dan Robinson · Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 11:42 am Post subject:

Another alternative may be that the caps that set the volume of your flush may have fallen out.

Look inside the cistern and see if there are any plastic bits floating around.

Dan Robinson · Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 11:56 am Post subject:

What time did you start writing that post Scruff? Could have swore I thought of that first.... Wink

thescruff · Moderator Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 4619 Location: Bath

Never mind mate, back to the snaaaps.

scruff. Crying or Very sad

Dan Robinson · Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 12:12 pm Post subject:

back to cleaning the bathroom more like Crying or Very sad

francesblarge · Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 5 Location: Hampshire

Thanks very much indeed! Can't see any plastic plug, floating bits or plugs so will hunt for plumber - could do with you in this area!
Barbara

thescruff · Moderator Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 4619 Location: Bath

What part of Hamphire, I know a few, but mostly Sussex.

scruff. Cool