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[Alias]

Current status: searching YouTube for "replace toilet flush valve".

Remember what life was like ten years ago, when you couldn't just summon a selection of instructional videos covering just about any new task you might be called upon to perform?

Yes, many tasks have been completed from informative videos from the web...

[NickFitz]

Return to B&Q?

TBH I still don't trust the existing one: it's played up before, and if it can go wrong once it'll probably do it again.

Plus, the new one is a rather cool dual-flush push-button thingy, rather than the manky cheapskate kit that's there now.

So I'll still fit the new one, but I'll wait until the weekend when I can take my time and make sure I do it properly

[Alias]

TBH I still don't trust the existing one: it's played up before, and if it can go wrong once it'll probably do it again.

Plus, the new one is a rather cool dual-flush push-button thingy, rather than the manky cheapskate kit that's there now.

So I'll still fit the new one, but I'll wait until the weekend when I can take my time and make sure I do it properly

Good move...hope it also fits with the current cistern top

[Alias]

right..time to go make some Shepherd's pie...

[NickFitz]

Ommm...

257,000

Remember when we were getting excited about reaching 30,000?

[eek]

Ommm...

Do you mind. It should be

[BrilloPad]

Ommm...

mIllenium

[zeitghost]

Ommm...

Mill.

Ennium.

Zen.

Chury.

Om.

I'm about to take my biennial bath.

[zeitghost]

Yes, many tasks have been completed from informative videos from the web...

The one about using a core drill was particularly useful.

Would have been nice if he'd pointed out that he was drilling breeze blocks whilst I was drilling engineering brick (well it might not have been engineering brick but it was tough stuff).

[zeitghost]

Oh FFS

Went down to the cellar and turned the water off. (There's a stop valve on the pipe leading to the cistern, but it's so incredibly difficult to turn that I'd risk breaking the pipe.)

Come all the way back up. Try a tap: no water. Jolly good.

Approach the cistern. I know from last night that holding the handle down will open the defective valve such that the water drains, very slowly.

Press handle. Toilet flushes vigorously.

Muttering darkly, I go back down to the cellar and turn the water back on.

Back up again. Try again. Toilet flushes better than it has for weeks.

Anybody want an unpackaged, but unused, replacement flush valve?

It's lulling you into a false sense of security. g

Things are like that a lot.