Powerful toilet

jonnydeppiwish!

Hi all

So an odd question for you on a Sunday evening.

I have a downstairs toilet that. When you flush it, you end up washing your backside at the same time. It comes out with a lot of force! (Sorry crap description……. 😆).

It’s a news cistern and toilet from wickes - any idea of how to reduce the flush power?

Thanks in advance.

twopenny

You could try adjusting the ball !!!!!! so you have less water in the tank.

Good to know though because mine the little twiddly thing to adjust slowly slides back to useless so i have the opposite problem.

greyteam1959

Depends on what flush mechanism is fitted.
Most modern ones are adjustable.

jonnydeppiwish!

So all I need to do is adjust the ball to let less water in?

FreeBear

Make & model of the toilet/cistern ?

Got a close coupled toilet here, and the flush is less than ideal - Often have floaters left behind and would much prefer something with a better flush. Kinda miss the old high level cisterns and keep thinking about replacing it.

jonnydeppiwish!

FreeBear said:

Make & model of the toilet/cistern ?

Got a close coupled toilet here, and the flush is less than ideal - Often have floaters left behind and would much prefer something with a better flush. Kinda miss the old high level cisterns and keep thinking about replacing it.

It’s this one here - https://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Ceramic-Low-Level-Cistern/p/160445 and I have no issue with floaters 😆 It is mounted a bit higher that it possibly should be though - the top is at 1200mm from the floor.

I think that the toilet is the same range.

Bendy_House

So the two parts are connected by a downpipe? And the cistern is higher than usual? Likely the cause, then.

In which case, less water quant might not be as effective a solution as you hope, but would likely just reduce the DURATION of the flush, whilst still splashing yer bum. Ideally, I think you wish to reduce the rate of flow. 

So I think a 'solution' would be to fit a restrictor inside the d/p. Could be some long-winded trial and error here, but a method would be to get a few inches of the same pipe, slice it lengthwise, squeeze it over on itself to reduce its dimeter, and slip it inside near the top of the d/p to reduce its dia by a few mm.

Add another similar sleeve inside this one if more restriction needed. Will likely need a dab of solvent to hold it in place.

So, I guess try the much-easier reduced volume first!

TELLIT01

If the water is backing up to that level it suggests a problem with the outflow.  Waterlevel in any of our toilets doesn't increase by more than an inch or so when flushing.

chrisw

Stand up before flushing?

Bendy_House

TELLIT01 said:

If the water is backing up to that level it suggests a problem with the outflow.  Waterlevel in any of our toilets doesn't increase by more than an inch or so when flushing.

I'm guessing - since he has no problems with floaters - that the issue is simply too much flow in to the bowl, and not a restricted outlet, but I obviously don't know.

BUFF

it has a 4 or 6l flush, have you tried just using the 4l flush instead of the 6?