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Water torture!!

  • 12-11-2015 12:45pm
    #1
    tattycat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91 ✭✭


    Hiya all. I've got a dripping toilet cistern, and nothing I can recognise...can't find an isolator to turn the water off without shutting the mains off...overflow has been covered with silicone....nd don't seem able to post pictures. ..HELP!!


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  • #2
    Mark74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭Mark74


    temporarily...after you flush keep the red float held upwards..and it will prevent new water from filling in. tie it up with some string or whatever works, without straining and bending the long arm.


  • #3
    Mark74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭Mark74


    after that...

    the pic posted ok. so....

    is the water in the pic at the uppermost level it reaches when full?
    ..if so then the leak must be coming from the underside. meaning the internal of the cistern need to be taken out and the underside sealed.


    If the water normally goes higher....then it could just be going too high and leaking out one of the upper holes.
    I cant post a pic...but on your photo....there is an adjustment screw that can be used to adjust the upper water level. its a plastic screw/bolt lying horizontally towards the right of your photo...


  • #4
    tattycat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91 ✭✭tattycat


    Thanks for getting back to me so quickly! !

    It doesn't matter if the ball cock is at the top of the cistern or the bottom the water still trickles out rather than running/pouring out....it takes ages to fill but stops when the level puts the ballcock on the adjusting screw....


  • #5
    Mark74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭Mark74


    Oh, you say "trickles out rather than running out"....so i think you mean its leaking down into the toilet itself. I had pictured it as leaking out onto the bathroom floor.
    If you look further down the 1st page of this plumbing section, theres a thread called "overflowing toilet cistern"...it answers that problem if thats the same scenario


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