I had a problem with the downstairs toilet…27 year old ball valve for quite a few years now has been causing vibration banging, really loud, to the point I was worried about my pipes. Finally I got fed up with it and the 1lmost 90s plus of noise that accompanied a flush.
Got meeself the old Skylo bottom entry float valve.. Looked good, compact, no more float arm and ball and just enough space to miss the jetflow (Ideal standard flush unit), another pile of dog do, but that’s another story, waiting to happen when the membrane finally fails..
So far so good, drained cistern, removed old ball valve, put a new little fibre washer in the service valve…slung it in and screwed it up from underneath nice and tight. It used a rubbery cone shaped bung to fit in the hole of my cistern….good idea I thought, much better than the flat rubber washer that I had previously. Had taken the grand total of 10 minutes to get to this point.
Now the nightmare begins, opened service valve filled cistern a bit, leaks from bottom of fill valve, tightened nut, still leaked, I kept tightening this plastic nut until it stopped leaking and it was a toss up whether the nut fractured or the leak would stop. Lesson, not all holes in ceramic cisterns are made equal….
Massive ball ache that made the job take ages…..works nice though, delayed fill, almost silent and quick as well….just hope that plastic nut stays OK.
Delayed fill = prevents it filling whilst the toiler is flushing to save water.
Why oh why are the simplest DIY jobs sometimes such a PITA
