Is it traditional to use the half-hour gap between visiting relatives to re-plumb toilets over Christmas? 8-(
For the last few weeks, the toilet has been dripping. The close- coupled cistern isn't firmly attached to the wall, a visiting gorilla swung on the flush handle and the rubber doughnut no longer seated snugly into the pan. A replacement close-coupling-coupler was duly purchased and sat awaiting tuits.
Today was the day (Tomorrow is 5 extra rellies). I soon realised that the rubber washer on the overflow standpipe was gloopified, but no-one sells them as spares (I think is the nearest). That was one trip for parts.
Then I tried to re-connect the water supply and couldn't get the rigid copper pipe to mate with the mashed thread on the bottom entry valve without leaking. Cue a 2nd trip in the opposite direction for a new Fluidmaster valve. Previously I'd been a Torbeck fan, but these seem faster, quieter, and don't have such tiny orifices at risk of scale.
The doughnut incidentally was no trouble,..
Now it's all back together and leak-free, but seems to have trouble with the flush itself - the syphon doesn't stop syphoning. My suspicion is that the fast-filling Fluidmaster simply starts to re- fill the cistern before it's fully emptied and breaks the syphon. After all, Delchem's design is based around a flapper valve rather than a syphon. Is there anything I can do to regulate this? At present I've just left the supply ball valve at 45o, which isn't quite ideal.