Toilet Siphon repair - possiblity, cost & time advice - best options?

mikey72

missindecisive wrote: »

we have the same problem with one of our loos:p The new syphon costs around £14 from our local plumbers merchants. my husband will replace it himself and it will take him about 20 mins. I know this because he has done it before!
so now that you know roughly how much it costs for a new part, it boils down to how much you are willing to pay someone for their time and effort. I think £50 for labour is more than reasonable.

20 mins to turn the water off, disconnect the pipes, get the cistern off, change the syphon, get the cistern back on, reconnect everything and then check for leaks is pretty impressive!

diable

mikey72 wrote: »

20 mins to turn the water off, disconnect the pipes, get the cistern off, change the syphon, get the cistern back on, reconnect everything and then check for leaks is pretty impressive!

I'd say 22 mins.......

mikey72

diable wrote: »

I'd say 22 mins.......

Maybe I just see the ones where the screws holding the cistern to the wall have rusted into headless blobs, the wingnuts under the cistern are now a brown conglomerate with the bolts, the fibre washer on the inlet is annealed (but only the righthand half) to the copper pipe, which hasn't got a valve in it, and the rubber doughnut is so flat that someone ten years ago has used silicone on it, and it is now one with the pan underneath, apart from the two bolts, which will fall down the flush in the pan the second you try to lift it off.
Then the stopcock under the sink, behind all the pots and pans, and the chippan full of oil, stuck to the cupboard base, just where you need to put your elbow, is a white furry mess, that looks like the leak that started twenty years ago, dried out 5 years ago, and the stopcock in the street has mud up to the pavement.

Canucklehead

mikey72 wrote: »

Maybe I just see the ones where the screws holding the cistern to the wall have rusted into headless blobs, the wingnuts under the cistern are now a brown conglomerate with the bolts, the fibre washer on the inlet is annealed (but only the righthand half) to the copper pipe, which hasn't got a valve in it, and the rubber doughnut is so flat that someone ten years ago has used silicone on it, and it is now one with the pan underneath, apart from the two bolts, which will fall down the flush in the pan the second you try to lift it off.
Then the stopcock under the sink, behind all the pots and pans, and the chippan full of oil, stuck to the cupboard base, just where you need to put your elbow, is a white furry mess, that looks like the leak that started twenty years ago, dried out 5 years ago, and the stopcock in the street has mud up to the pavement.

You are not alone;)

Don't you love the wood seats (B&Q type) with multi choice positions that go green on top and rusty underneath.?

OP Is it possible to post a photo of the cistern?

I wonder if it is old enough to be a ceramic siphon with brass bolts in it.

Is it syphonic?

GSR.

vaio

cajef wrote: »

This thread is two years old, why resurrect it?

probably spam related but nice to have another read of mikey's insightful post, hands up everyone who's been there.......

mikey72 wrote: »

Maybe I just see the ones where the screws holding the cistern to the wall have rusted into headless blobs, the wingnuts under the cistern are now a brown conglomerate with the bolts, the fibre washer on the inlet is annealed (but only the righthand half) to the copper pipe, which hasn't got a valve in it, and the rubber doughnut is so flat that someone ten years ago has used silicone on it, and it is now one with the pan underneath, apart from the two bolts, which will fall down the flush in the pan the second you try to lift it off.
Then the stopcock under the sink, behind all the pots and pans, and the chippan full of oil, stuck to the cupboard base, just where you need to put your elbow, is a white furry mess, that looks like the leak that started twenty years ago, dried out 5 years ago, and the stopcock in the street has mud up to the pavement.