MarkK wrote:

"Ian Stirling" wrote in message
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justme wrote:

Hello,

Please excuse the diybanter access (to the newsgroup)

I am away from home and the home I'm in has a broken toilet. I have
removed the top. I have what I think is known as a close coupled
toilet, there is a float arm which works ok - water level is ok. The
handle moves just as it should, links to a metal rod which is about 4
inches long and this rod goes vertically down and connects to what I
would call the syphon chamber, when the handle is 'flushed' the rod
comes upwards pulling something inside the syphon chamber upwards.


The washer inside may have degraded enough that it no longer works.
I removed the siphon chamber in my toilet, when it started doing this,
and repaired it using a circle of polythene cut from a jewsons sack.
Worked well.

Yes, this is almost certainly the problem. The correct term is "flap
valve", not washer, though. Dead easy to fix & won't cost a penny if you
can lay your hands on a heavy duty plastic bag. Just drain the cistern,
dismantle everything and the problem & method of fixing will be
self-evident. A half-hour job.

Heh heh!

If it's a close coupled cistern you way well find that the soft rubber
'doughnut' that seals the cistern to the pan needs replacing to make a good
seal, and also the rubber washer that seals the syphon to the cistern. Not
to mention the bolts holding the cistern to the pan being a bit rusty,
ditto screws holding cistern to wall.