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Toilet leaking into bowl

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Hi

I have a toilet that takes ages to fill and the water leaks into the bowl and as a result just keeps running.

On another toilet I used to be able to adjust a screw and this would fix it. This cistern is one that has a button on the top and is pressed down to flush.

I cannot see anything to adjust,any ideas?
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  • keystone
    keystone Posts: 10,916 Forumite
    hardtimes wrote: »
    Hi

    I have a toilet that takes ages to fill and the water leaks into the bowl and as a result just keeps running.

    On another toilet I used to be able to adjust a screw and this would fix it. This cistern is one that has a button on the top and is pressed down to flush.

    I cannot see anything to adjust,any ideas?
    Internal overflow or flush valve? Valve make / type? Pic?

    Otherwise its:

    crystal-ball.jpg

    Sorry but I can't quite make it out from here.

    Cheers
    The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. - Einstein
  • theGrinch
    theGrinch Posts: 3,133 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    im sure someone more smart will come along, but until then it could be a few things, one of which is a the flapper leaking. If its this its fairly cheap and easy to replace.
    "enough is a feast"...old Buddist proverb
  • theGrinch wrote: »
    im sure someone more smart will come along, but until then it could be a few things, one of which is a the flapper leaking. .

    sounds like a job for a urologist
    You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe (Henry IV part 2)
  • daveyjp
    daveyjp Posts: 13,532 Forumite
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    Perished washer on the siphon valve. I hope you aren't on a water meter, one of these leaking can double water consumption.
  • theGrinch
    theGrinch Posts: 3,133 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    sounds like a job for a urologist

    call a doctor not a plumber :)
    "enough is a feast"...old Buddist proverb
  • keystone
    keystone Posts: 10,916 Forumite
    daveyjp wrote: »
    Perished washer on the siphon valve..........................
    Please tell why it might not be the inlet valve?

    Cheers
    The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. - Einstein
  • loulou41
    loulou41 Posts: 2,871 Forumite
    hardtimes wrote: »
    Hi

    I have a toilet that takes ages to fill and the water leaks into the bowl and as a result just keeps running.

    On another toilet I used to be able to adjust a screw and this would fix it. This cistern is one that has a button on the top and is pressed down to flush.

    I cannot see anything to adjust,any ideas?

    My toilet used to do that sometimes. We found out that if we flushed again it stopped it seemed that it got stuck and it is working fine now. Hope this helps.
  • rxbren
    rxbren Posts: 413 Forumite
    edited 16 September 2012 at 11:09PM
    pop the lid off the cistern and see if it is overflowing due to the water being over the overflow mark if its below that point one of the seals at the bottom of the cistern will be installed wrong or failed

    if its overflowing in the cistern there will be a float/ballvalve depending if bottom/side feed
    im guessing as you cant see a screw its bottom feed so isolate the water supply flush the toilet and there will be a float attached to a bar with notches just simply unclip and reclip lower down
  • mikey72
    mikey72 Posts: 14,680 Forumite
    Torbeck valve with a hole in the diaphragm.
    Put a new diaphragm in if you can get one for your inlet valve.
  • mikey72 wrote: »
    Torbeck valve with a hole in the diaphragm.
    Put a new diaphragm in if you can get one for your inlet valve.

    the OP hasn't said it's a torbeck valve ?
    I'm only here while I wait for Corrie to start.

    You get no BS from me & if I think you are wrong I WILL tell you.
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