Toilet - repair or replace?

SaverRate

Wrap some PTFE around the brass thread then reinstall the flexi onto it. That should stop any leaks. 

FreeBear

If it is weeping slightly from around where the brass fitting goes through the cistern, I find a thin smear of silicone sealant on the washers is usually enough. Downside it means draining the cistern again so that the fill valve can be lifted out.

shiraz99

hedgewitchery said:

MovingForwards said:

@hedgewitchery can you take the top off and take another photo of the inside, it seems whatever is under your buttons haven't been set up to align with them.

The thing is, it doesn't actually align with anything inside. It actually seems to be quite a clever arrangement - the button post just "clips" into an otherwise totally separate free-hanging unit that's attached to the flush mechanism by a flexible wire.

This is the unit that's attached to the flush mechanism:



The grey cog thing on the top is like a spring-loaded holder, so you just squeeze it to put the button post in and out, if that makes sense. Then the button itself goes through the hole and is secured by a plastic screw/washer thingy:



 So it doesn't need to be aligned with anything - I think you're just meant to post it through the hole in the lid, secure it with the washer and then clip it into the unit. It's just that the button unit is physically too big to go through the hole in the lid. As you can see, it actually came with a removable cowl to make it bigger(!) so maybe my toilet is non-standardly small?

I've tried shoving it a bit in case it's meant to squeeze in somehow, but it doesn't feel very yielding and I think it will just break it if I try too hard. So, it just stands proud:



I had a look on Screwfix and they sell the button separately but it only seems to come in one size, so I don't think that'll help and I don't know if other manufacturers' buttons will work the same way with this springloaded unit thingy.

Oh, and I spoke too soon about everything else working fine as I now notice that my connection is leaking a bit:



The new connector is brass instead of plastic, which I thought would be better but obviously not! I'm not sure if I just need to try and brute force it tighter, but the whole thing seems to twist and I'm frightened of damaging the actual pipe thing. Bah!

Did the flexi pipe connector have a fibre or rubber washer and did you replace it with a new one?

hedgewitchery

shiraz99 said:

hedgewitchery said:

The new connector is brass instead of plastic, which I thought would be better but obviously not! I'm not sure if I just need to try and brute force it tighter, but the whole thing seems to twist and I'm frightened of damaging the actual pipe thing. Bah!

Did the flexi pipe connector have a fibre or rubber washer and did you replace it with a new one?

I didn't look at it too closely, to be honest, but I think it was red and rubbery? Hadn't thought of replacing that - I actually had a bit of difficulty screwing it back on and thought maybe the size of the connector was wrong, so I was more focused on that. I'll maybe take it off and have another look tomorrow.