Any toilet experts out there?

moneysavingplumber

tomstickland wrote:

Why did they go over to drop valves from syphons then? Something to do with water saving?

Not as far as I know, it's the only way to achieve the trendy push-button flushes without going to the lengths of the old Fordham Flush Panel (hideous slimline plastic cistern available in a range of hideous colours with a a big rectangular chrome button at the top) which used a lever to pull up the syphon plunger. Drop valves were only WRAC approved fairly recently since being modified for the British regulations, but they've been used on the continent for years.

tomstickland

Right, nice to delve deeper into the bowl of toilet knowledge.

Maximillion

Have been in our new build for a year - site maintenace still fixed our toilet (similar problem) just phone them/customer services.

Hope your problems end there, turned out our heating was plumbed incorectly meaning no hot water without the heating on, which wasn't easy to accomplish as they'd wired the conrol panel backwards so the heating only came on when you switched on the water. They happened to notice when they came to look for the leak after the mice chewed through the crappy plastic pipes, during which the washing machine was moved in and out of it's place pushing the pipes through the gap in the panel at the back chaffing a hole which flooded the utility & kitchen lifting the laminate flooring...............etc..........etc.............

Marsh_Samphire

Firstcrowcounter - you're not in a Persimmon by any chance? Your lot sound just like the muppets who built my house!!!

The plumbers connected the hot & cold to the wrong bath taps and put a valve in the wrong way round so nothing came out. Then they didn't empty the tank before trying to change it and flooded the whole bathroom. We'd only been in 1 day!

Also, kitchen fitters had put a screw through the wires leading from the boiler causing it to trip the electrics out every time it came on, took them 4 weeks to admit threre was a problem! Then another 4 weeks to find and fix it!

TJMD

All sorted now. My partner sorted it (the water level rose too high or something like that so trickled down the thing in the middle) and then he broke one of our other toilets! Then the builders came round and fixed that one!

Firstcrowcounter: Not having any serious problems with the newbuild house. (yet!). It's a Bloor home and the site manager is always happy to come round and look at anything having probs with. He even installed our washing machine for us because we just couldn't figure it out!

Thanks to everyone for the comments.