every one I've encountered previously had a screw adjustment
the one in my flat has a copper arm which you bend up/down to adjust the fill level in the cistern
no wonder the country's in the state it is......
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But now the screw can't corrode and seize...
Gill Smith set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time continuum:
Mine is like that, dating from the 1950's. The hole that the handle goes into has given way so currently the handle just hangs limp. To get anything out of it one must reach inside and work it up and down by hand.
Getting old you see.
cistern?
every time I get my water bill!
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On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:32:13 -0000, Gill Smith wrote the following to uk.misc:
Once a year then? Brick in the cistern is the traditional way of doing it.
In my last place I had a water meter installed and then wondered why the bills went from about £25/month to around £80. They couldn't fit one inside the house so it went in the back garden, and until then no-one realised the main was shared with the family of 4 next door. Thankfully I got it sorted out just before I moved out.
mh.
They all used to work like that...
I think you are referring to the flush mechanism - not the ball-c*ck.
The ball-c*ck takes care of filling the cistern to the correct level..
"John" wrote
No, he means the float arm.
Tell me about it...
They are the modern ones.
Which were much more efficient & easier to adjust.
This has to be some kind of troll surely?
The bc takes care of *stopping* it filling, above the correct level.
Its weight ensures that the valve opens when the water level falls, so it does both.
Of course, the term really applies to the whole assembly of float and valve anyway.
-- Richard
that is a BIG saving
when I went over to a meter, I've had to pare consumption to the bone (about half the UN recommended amount to keep people alive)
and I save about £30 p.a. (10-15% savings)
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Don't be silly.
I have exactly the opposite problem. We had a plumber to replace the mechanism in a low-level wc as SWMBO started moaning about my lack of success at getting it to flush and not overflow and my regular pops out to B&Q for a different bit.
The plumber fitted exactly the same pile of plastic rubbish that I'd been fitting and about 3 days later there was the spout over the kitchen window. In desperation I got the plastic float arm off and formed an S-bend by boiling and bending. This was fine, years passed, until the siphon stopped siphoning and inlet valve partly failed. The plumber was booked and I asked him to spare no expense. He replaced the whole assembly with a modern plastic one. One day later, there was the overflow past the kitchen window again. This time I just held the plastic under the hot tap and bent a bit and the float arm now is in just works bodge-mode.
I totally agree with the OP's hinted view that the country is on a huge downhill technological slide. Just that he used the wrong example.
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But he didn't mention a *saving*, did he?
Amazing - been in the house 23 years - Downstairs bog is all original (plastic). Upstairs is a Fluidmaster - fitted for quietness about 18 years ago. Never a problem other than a new washer in the original. Flush siphons all original. 4 in house most of time.
Taps also original - occasionally stripped and greased - but that might be a bit nurdy.
"John" wrote
"A bit"?
I can think of better things to strip & grease.
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