If the flapper valve is NOT leaking or if after replacing it the problem continues, it's possible that the whole flush assembly in the center of the cistern is leaking around its base and into the toilet. Replacing the toilet flush valve seat assembly is a bigger job as one has to turn...
"If the water will not run to your cistern, you may with a force of twenty shillings, and a pipe of eighteen pence the yard, force it from the lowest part of your house to the highest. These forces, al also the great washer, you shall buy at the queen's braziers in Lothbury...
A water outlet opening 28 is provided in the lower end of tank wall 16 in axial alignment with opening 24 for the discharge of water within the tank to the cistern drain 30 in the bottom wall 29 of the ceramic toilet tank 13 to effect flushing of the toilet bowl (not shown). The ...
flushing action. See FIG. 3. When the water is emptied from the toilet tank the flapper valve 14 closes by the gravity effect of the weight of the flapper valve and the absence of the bouyancy effect of the delay device. See FIG. 4. The in-flow control device 16 starts filling the ...
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Harington’s device called for a 2-foot-deep oval bowl waterproofed with pitch, resin and wax and fed by water from an upstairs cistern. Flushing Harington’s pot required 7.5 gallons of water—a veritable torrent in the era before indoor plumbing. Harington noted that when water was scarce...
an actuating device which is in turn linked to a pushbutton arranged on the lid of the cistern, so that when the pushbutton is pressed the actuating element causes the movement of the flushing device and the opening of the water outlet hole of the cistern, thus allowing it to be emptied...
I have 2 bathrooms, everything is draining and flushing normally except for the one toilet in my master bedroom. When I flush it it just fills up with water in the toilet bowl, after some time the water goes down, but never all the way or completely flushes, this has been going on ...
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