Poor toilet flush

Drain the cistern and check the connections from the flush to the pan. On one of ours with a stand-up flush unit the base, where the water sucks up from the cistern before siphoning off, was loose and allowed lots of air to be pulled in, meaning the flush was weak and finished early, repeated flushes were needed.

Similarly the top, if it's a stand-up flush, can also come loose and stop the siphon working properly, but this might need adhesive or filler to fix!

That's what (close coupled) toilets are like now with the reduced volume. However, if you can flush again and get more water, have you set it to a short flush ? The new downstairs one I fitted with a hidden cistern elevated about 600mm above the pan and delivered via a curved tube. Its delightfully fierce. Of course with a high level cistern, you could flush away a cat. Simon.

Its not a Shires 'Adelphi' is it? the Loo That don't Flush?

Could be a pan designed for the old sized flush volume. The new ones have a narrower outlet, and thus, target zone ;-) Simon.

We had that. An old (avocado vintage) suite with a double syphonic action - one of those bright ideas that the invisible hand of product selection has since done away with. It worked, just never well.

Finally the plastic flush syphon broke for an unrelated reason and had to be replaced. Replacing it coincidentally with a "full volume" syphon rather than the previous 1990s reduced volume flush cured the problem. Flushing is now powerful and effective. We're wasting water until we replace the entire bathroom, but then we live in Wales so we're hardly short of the stuff.

Thanks to all for the many suggestions. I'm off to the hardware to see if I can source a better innards. Thats my weekend fecked up ;-(

Paul Mc Cann

Upon investigation could this be the problem ?

Thanks to all again

Paul Mc Cann