Don't be afraid to touch the water in the toilet tank or cistern itself. Stop the toilet & its tank from further filling by lifting up the float that operates the toilet tank fill valve. This will stop water from entering the toilet tank from the toilet supply line. The photo shows ...
Check the toilet cistern fill valve or float assembly adjustment: if the toilet cistern is not filling up to the indicated volume line in the toilet tank or cistern and if the diverter tube (above) is indeed properly filling the toilet bowl itself, you may need simply to adjust the position...
"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, ...
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...
Why did mine exams after I put them in the molds? Reply Maria A Rose says: at Expand Reply Danni says: at Instead of putting my toilet bombs into the bowl, I put it into the cistern and it seems to work much better this way. Mine expanded as soon as I put it in the mo...
After a flush, the cistern fills up properly, but the bowl only fills up 1/3 to 1/2 of the normal water line. When I turn off the water source and then turn it back on, the toilet operates as it should. What could be the problem?
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...
Used in quantities of fractions of ounces no, an odorant won't harm the septic system in normal household use; however take care that some toilet bowl deodorizers and fresheners dispensed from the cistern or toilet tank can cause deterioration in rubber or plastic parts in the toilet flush an...
Toilet cisterns & flush tanks: This article explains how a flush toilet operates and describes the types, parts, and operation of the toilet cistern or toilet flush tank. This article series describes the different types and models of toilets: historica