Hi,
I've had a toilet installed by some bathroom fitters a few weeks ago and I flushed it this morning and the cistern didn't stop refilling with the water just running into the toilet bowl. After a bit of poking around I discovered a few things:
- There is no isolating valve on the water pipe to the cistern. Is this required as I would expect as it's gravity fed from a huge tank in the loft?
- They didn't connect up the overflow! (I'm assuming for now that the toilet it replaced had one connected)
I've temporarily fixed it for now by jamming a tool into it in such a way that it thinks the cistern is full.
I guess my question is just whether or not they should have fitted a valve to the supply pipe, my other half bought all the bits (was her project) and probably should have bought one of those but I would have expected them to mention it ;)
For humour value I'll mention that I checked the other bathroom that was fitted before we moved in, the toilet in there has a valve on the supply line but it's so close to some tiles it's impossible to close it as the tap handle would have to move through the tiles. Also the heated towel rail in there has a blanking plug at the top where it should have a plug with a bleed valve! Grr.
Thanks,
Peter.