Slow filling toilet cistern

BlazingSaddler

Hi all, very very limited plumbing knowledge alert! The cistern takes an absolute age to refill, it literally just drops water back in. I've had a google and a good look at it myself but am none the wiser. Could any of you shed any light please? I really don't want to have to shell out €100 for a plumber to fix this! I'll try and attach a picture

Sleeper12

It looks like a Torbec filler valve. Inside you'll find a restrictor. I would like just remove it & put it back together. Obviously turn off the water first.

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dodzy

BlazingSaddler wrote: »

Hi all, very very limited plumbing knowledge alert! The cistern takes an absolute age to refill, it literally just drops water back in. I've had a google and a good look at it myself but am none the wiser. Could any of you shed any light please? I really don't want to have to shell out €100 for a plumber to fix this! I'll try and attach a picture

My money is on a fecked diaphragm. 50cent and a 2 minute fix. Very common issue. Any plumber supply store will have them. Water off first as Sleeper pointed out!

BlazingSaddler

Ok, I'm really embarrassed by plumbing incompetence here but here goes! I want to turn the water off, that's the screw on the fitting that goes into the cistern right?! Well, That screw does not tighten when turned either way, it just goes round and round whether I turn clockwise or anti clockwise! What now?!!

Sleeper12

Yup that's the one

shane b

you may have figured it out by now but those isolation valves only need to be turned 90 degrees to turn off the water