How do I get top off toilet water tank

[Mike]

How do I get the top off the toilet water tank. It is continually in overflow mode since I tried to take the top off. The style is the type with the buttons on top .. big flush .. little flush :-)

Mike P

[Bob Mannix]

There should be a depression in the side of the buttons revealed by pushing down the neighbouring button. Use this to lever the buttons upwards - they should pop off. There will then be a screw head revealed that was underneath the buttons to release the top. When retightening, don't over tighten this screw, it's just to hold the button mechanism steady.

[Mike]

Ok ... depressed one button and gently levered off both buttons leaving two plastic uprights where the buttons were pushed onto. No sign of a screw in the "cup", just the top of the plunger can be seen thru a hole. Unable to lever the "cup" off top of the tank as it still feels well attached to all below.

Mike P

[Bob Mannix]

Well mine has a screw but it may be the whole cup unscrews IYSWIM, after the two plastic uprights have been removed?

[Andrew Gabriel]

One that I fitted for a friend -- you unscrew the collar/besel around the buttons (and you don't pull the buttons off;-).

Complete pile of crap the whole thing was too -- no useful instructions, and nothing actually lined up properly. Also noticed the ball valve was about as non-standard as you could get, so I imagine when it dies, it will be both expensive and time-consuming to get a replacement.

There's a lot to be said for a bog-standard, er, bog ;-)

[Mike]

Finally ..... it was the screw off bezel type, but everything full of grit and the wrong things turning. What a complicated piece of engineering when all was revealed !

Still in process of lining bezel up to screw relucantly back in .. hopefully

I maybe some time :-(

Mike P

[John]

We abandoned our siphons and bent to the EU and adopted their crap designs.

[The Medway Handyman]

Another type has a nut underneath, you lift the lid slightly & detach a kinda bowden cable to remove the lid.

Too bloody true.

[Huge]

Another reason I don't like push-button flushes...