"T i m" wrote in message
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Hi friends,

Our friends have recently moved into a new (to them) place and I have
been helping them 'sort out' some of the little (mostly bodged by the
PO) jobs.

One such (I noticed when in the bathroom making the toilet seat fit
properly .. hinges on the wrong way round and most the screws loose
..) was that the ceramic cistern lid won't sit on the cistern
properly?

This it turns out is because the PO tiled over the tiles (I personally
hate that) and didn't allow room for the lid to go back properly
sigh?

So, we (I) could either cut the back off the lid using? (diamond disk
cutter on my angle grinder?)

or try to trim the upper layer tiles back using ?

I'd insist on that being done. apart from anything else it must be easier.

Why not take off the second layer of tiles?

Or both, the lower one might be damaged or simply horrid.

The window sill in our lavvy has an interesting cut-out. The house is 1937
and all the others on the estate had overhead cisterns but my aunt who lived
here first wanted a posh low-level w.c. My godfather, a brilliant plumber,
installed one for her but had to cut the sill to accommodate the cistern
lid. The cut is off-set because the window isn't central in the wall but the
w.c. is.

It's the original w.c., the waste is still connected to the outside pipe by
a huge collar of lead.

Both Auntie Ann and Uncle Bill have shuffled off the wotsit but I think of
them ever time I'm in the smallest room ... so what's done could have long
lasting consequences. Tell your friends not to act in haste or future
generations might hold it against - not them - you!

Mary