Broken toilet handle

Yorkie1

I'm the OP (interested by the Screwfix debate!). Still researching the handle kit, plus a replacement kitchen tap, plus a toilet seat while I'm at it … !!!

grumpy_codger

Still researching the handle kit

Isn't this one identical to yours?

Or you want something different?

Yorkie1

Thank you for the images @grumpy_codger , yes that does very look like it.

The taps in the bathroom are cross head chrome, so keeping the white / chrome look makes sense.

Is that the Screwfix one that you suggested earlier in the thread? This one?

it mentions dual flush; what does that mean? I only have a single level of flush.

molerat

it mentions dual flush; what does that mean? I only have a single level of flush.

Irrelevant for a flush handle. But are you sure that syphon is not dual flush ? That looks identical to mine and there is a plastic plug that is removed to make it dual flush.

grumpy_codger

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82170562#Comment_82170562

Is that the Screwfix one that you suggested earlier in the thread? This one?

Yes

it mentions dual flush; what does that mean? I only have a single level of flush.

TBH, I don't know. Possibly this means that it's compatible with dual-flash siphons, e.g. https://www.screwfix.com/p/thomas-dudley-ltd-292-343mm-adjustable-height-dual-turbo-88-syphon-1-1-2-/9756f

Don't know how this affects compatibility with single-flash, but you can return it to SF if at closer look (preferably without breaking the original packaging) you see some essential difference.

Important dimensions to check:

• white plastic lever - your old one is likely not to fit the new handle as your metal rod seems to be hexahedral (new looks like square ETA: no, it's hexahedral too*).
• hole in the cistern - it has to be 20mm+

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(a photo from SF)

Yorkie1

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82170615#Comment_82170615

Thanks - to be honest, I have no idea. The toilet was present when I bought the house in 2010.

I was assuming that dual flush was for those toilets where there's a smaller button and a larger button, for dual levels of water flush. I may have been 100% wrong in that assumption (and you know what they say about "assume" … !).

I suppose if I get the item from SF, I can always return it unopened if need be on advice of the plumber, as grumpy_chap has also suggested.

molerat

I was assuming that dual flush was for those toilets where there's a smaller button and a larger button, for dual levels of water flush. I may have been 100% wrong in that assumption (and you know what they say about "assume" … !).

Flush and release = short flush, flush and hold = full flush - but I have come across some that are the reverse. If yours is convertible there will be a removable plastic plug on the side.

Yorkie1

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82170705#Comment_82170705

Thanks molerat. Sorry to be dim, on the side of what?

prowla

Screwfix, B&Q, local plumbing store.
I've replaced these over the years; not a major job.

molerat

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82170711#Comment_82170711

On the side of the syphon inside the cistern.