Hi again,
So, I'm round and Mum and Dad's looking over the garage wiring and Mum mentions the upstairs loo hasn't flushed for a while (turns out to be a few months! They flush it with a bucket filled from the bath but mainly use the downstairs loo).
Anyway, I take a look and it an old ceramic close coupled cistern using a rubber disk / seal supported by a perforated ceramic disk to lift the water up and over to start the syphon.
This whole mech fixes down to the outlet tube to the pan with 3 bolts. I removed these, gathered all the nuts, bolts, washers, rubber disks etc and re-assembled the lot again (with an extra SS pin to hold the bottom nut to it's partially stripped thread)
So, they now have a working loo again ;-)
First Q. they are talking about a whole new bath / loo / shower (another large enameled steel bath for eBay ) so the loo will be replaced with something more modern then, but out of interest, can you get a new flush system to fit onto this 3 studded internal fitting (type thing..) ?
Second Q. Mum asked if she "had to have the toilet up on that base?" It seems that the toilet has been raised up about 1 1/2", possibly to get it to align with the cast iron soil pipe?
I assume someone (possibly me?) would be very lucky to get the soil pipe on the new loo to meet up with the old plumbing? Would that mean cutting back the cast iron? What if the loo is *lower* (say, by 2") than the pipe that goes out through the wall, turns through 90 deg and joins the main stack / vent at 45 deg?
Did someone say here that this sort of refit would would attract the attention of building regs dept?
All the best and have a good weekend .. ;-)
T i m