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    Poor fall on soil pipe and toilet blocking. Advice for fixes please?

    Hi all, looking for some soil pipe/stack help please. I bought my first house end December and unfortunately had a toilet pipe blockage within a month. Place is old but was renovated in 2014 so thought it would be in decent nick! Plumber came out to rod it end January from the access hatch...
    • antrey
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    • advice fall horizontal pipe please soil soil pipe soil stack toilet
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: UK Plumbers Forums
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    Box behind loo. What lurks inside?

    Hi. There is a boxed off section behind my sink toilet and an even larger one behind my shower. What is likely to be behind this? I could use the additional space, so could it be removed? Would it be complicated to move everything back towards the wall? Thanks for your answer
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    How to open up toilet waste pipe please

    How to open this toilet pipe please? I need to retrieve a key I dropped down here. I think its sitting in the grooves of the flexible pipe. Will this pipe unscrew easily, I can probably untwist it OK. But then after is it easy to reconnect and ensure its water tight? Any advice gratefully...
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    Toilet installation - 2 issues

    Afternoon all I’m trying to replace a toilet downstairs and have come across two issues. The floor is not level and there is a lip at the front of around 5mm which causes the toilet to rock, even when bolted down. The bolts aren’t the best and are plastic brackets on the inside of the toilet...
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    Toilet flush problem with water coming down pan after successful flush

    Our toilet which is a year old has begun to have a problem with its flush. It flushes seemingly normally but then when the cistern has filled water comes down the pan for about 20-30 seconds then stops. Hoping somebody has a fix for this :)
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    Leaking toilet inlet - More ptfe or Joint compound?

    Ive fitted a new bottom entry fill valve to our en-suite toilet but i cant stop the dribble/leak from the inlet connection. Ive added a fair bit of ptfe but its still leaking, tightened it to its maximum etc and still im getting a dribble. Do you think i need more ptfe, add some joint compound...
    • KennyA
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    • compound inlet joint jointing compound leaking ptfe toilet
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: UK Plumbers Forums
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    Replacement of cast iron flange

    cast iron top of toilet flange rusted. I removed the top of flange. The top of flange and 4” drain pipe are even and level. Can I replace flange with retro fit pvc/abs flange without removing the remaining part of cast iron flange?
    • Fred Cook
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    • cast iron flange iron replacement toilet
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: UK Plumbers Forums
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    Can’t get to toilet isolation valve

    Hello I need to change the side flush valve on my toilet as it keeps running. The isolation valve is behind the toilet waste pipe and I can’t get to it(photo attached) What’s the best way to isolate the water to the toilet so I can change the side valve? And what’s the easiest thing I can to...
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    Wall hung toilet movement pre-silicone

    Hi, just installing a wall hung toilet on a grohe duofix frame + hardie + metro tiles. All fine so far, just pushed the pan on rods and tightened as test run before attaching flush pipe and waste. When fully tightened I can still lift the pan up slightly I.e. bottom of pan comes away from...
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    Noisy toilet or overfill

    Hi, I have a question about my toilet. I've noticed if I half close the water valve the filling slow and noisy but it stops once the basin is full. If I open the the water valve fully then it is less noisy but the float cup reaches the top but the water doesn't stop refilling for several...
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    Neighbour can smell sewage from our toilet.

    Neighbour can smell sewage from our toilet. A very smelly problem – our neighbour can smell sewage from our toilet. We live in a semi-detached 1950s house. We can smell nothing. Our neighbour has tried really hard to investigate the problem, but can’t get to the bottom of it and it's really...
    • SimbaM
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    • neighbour sewage smell toilet
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: UK Plumbers Forums
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    Toilet will not flush solids

    Toilet will not flush solids
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    Toilet Button not flushing

    Hi, Our toilet button wont flush our toilet...it has two tubes coming from it (a white and black one) which go to the mechanism inside...I can lift the mechanism inside which flushes the toilet,so that works. Any ideas what I ned to do?
    • Rick Maynard
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    • button flushing toilet
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: DIY Plumbing Forum
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    Removing top fix toilet seat

    Can anyone tell me how to remove this top fix toilet seat? I've tried squeezing both fixings from the inside but there's no movement.
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    Toilet issues, cistern not filling up

    Hi all, just a side note to start, I am not a plumber and have pretty much zero knowledge about plumbing. I have three toilets in my house, a downstairs one, big bathroom one and an en-suite one. There was a rattling noise coming from the downstairs toilet whenever the chain had been flushed...
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    slow draining toilet following pan connector replacement

    Hello All, We recently had a plumber out to replace a pan connector as the previous set up had developed a leak, however, following the replacement the toilet doesn't drain properly - the flush starts off ok, but partway through the water levels starts to rise, it then takes ages to drain, and...
    • xtsg10
    • Thread
    • america connector draining pan pan connector replacement slow toilet usa
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: USA Plumbers Advice
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    How to remove Ideal Standard TEMPO | T6792 toilet seat

    From what I have read online, the ideal standard toilet seat does not have a release button, i am supposed to just pull the seat off to access the fixing to tighten screw to stop wobbling seat. Is that correct? When i pull it nothing happens
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    Trying to Identify Toilet to Identify Toilet Seat.

    Hi Trying to replace identical seats in holiday let. Tried 3rd seat today, but still not right. If I can identify the toilet I might be able to identify the right seat ? . No markings anywhere apart from inside 6L tank (see photo) imprinted is 20-7-12-037 ..inside lid has blue letters too and...
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    New soil stack to toilet connection

    Hi. I'm installing a new soil stack for a new upstairs bathroom. For the toilet, where the 110mm pipe comes through the wall to outside, which pipe fitting do I use? It has to come out and then across to the soil stack, but all the branches and bends are 92.5 or 87.5 degrees but surely it needs...
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    Best way to seal up toilet hole?

    My husband has removed the toilet in our son's bathroom and we now have the hole in the floor to deal with. What is the best way to seal this up or cap it off? My husband just stuffed a plastic bag in it for now.

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