Villery & Bosche toilet repair rather than replace

And failing to resist ...

along with the old one has gone down the pan.

Diamond blade on a multimaster will let you slot tiles in situ... If the cut is behind the cistern when its reinstalled you would not even see it.

I suppose you could look at the "build in" cisterns - they are usually flexible with piping directions etc. However you would then need to make a tiled box to house it (and presumably then be searching for matching tiles made from unobtanium!) ;-)

In message , at

I've done that before, but it would require cutting a large enough "chase" in the tiles+plaster+breezeblock to be able to work on the feed pipe (which comes up from the floor before turning 90-degrees towards the cistern) and either lengthen or shorten it as required.

Due to earlier remodelling elsewhere in the room, I have lots of spare tiles :) But building and tiling such a box is disproportionately effortsome for this ostensibly simple repair project.

In message , at 22:01:29 on Sun, 13 May 2018, snipped-for-privacy@aolbin.com remarked:

If "they" are Megabad, it's very unlikely they have 20yr old spares (other than, like bathroomstudio, new seats which is a foreseeable ongoing requirement). And the cost (with carriage) for a cistern and lid will be prohibitive.

Yesterday I called brokenbog, and they didn't sound very thrilled. Said they didn't have much V&B, but took the details and said they would call me back. Which they haven't, yet. I know someone who will be in their area tomorrow and could conceivably pick something up, but I'm not that hopeful.

"I'd suggest sending them or V&B an email." Did you send one to V&B?

In message , at 12:58:26 on Thu, 17 May 2018, Martin remarked:

Still not sure who "them" is.

Do they take enquiries from the public?

Here's the earlier conversation, with a couple of bits omitted: "You might find that you can get the V&B parts you want (at a sensible price) from

The easiest way to find out is to ask them

OK. In any event I think the kinds of prices on their (Megabad) website, plus shipping, will be prohibitive.

I'll let you know how I get on.

ps Why do they need my date of birth, why is their country-list not in alphabetical order, and why is their form asking for non-GDPR compliant consent?

Later...

Four attempts to eventually get past their "I am not a robot" test, and then:

"Oops, an error occurred! Code: 20180519160225f1e6b414"

So that's a bust.

No. thats modern software authors.

Having spent the last 5 hours trying to get thunderbird to download mail from gmail account via POP3.

Imap took 30 seconds.

Google are complete Cnuts.