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grim_d
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The few times I've had to endure this misery I've used a oscillating tool with a carbide tipped blade.
Cuts through them in a jiffy but you're still face to face with a toilet.
Noooo.Take the lot out and fit a modern alternative
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You’ll have no end of trouble with it. The new ones are so bad and dribble so much welsh water are training up plumbers to fix them for free, the leakage uses far more water than they should be saving. Absolute rubbish.
Is it any different to being drunk and "Talking to God on the big white telephone" ??The few times I've had to endure this misery I've used a oscillating tool with a carbide tipped blade.
Cuts through them in a jiffy but you're still face to face with a toilet.
droopsnoot
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I've been putting off a similar job - mine will sometimes not seal when it's finished flushing, so it's continually trickling a tiny amount of water into the bowl. The only way I know it's happening is that I can hear the cistern filling up every so often when it shouldn't need to. I must get around to sorting it out sometime.
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Its fine when its your own toilet, when its someone elses its just a bit yuk!
Scalarocco
Smile, or I'll bite your leg...
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At least you've had the dubious benefits of a few beers before you drive the porcelain bus.
I hate those carseys that have the cistern fixed to the actual bog itself, what a rubbish idea.. A place I do odds and ends for has a few toilets and I've made them keep the old type separate cistern, so much easier to deal with when you need to replace stuff. I also don't do the "water saving" nonsense either.
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Yep, leave a bucket next the khazi and let everbody use that for at least a year. They will appreciate it more when you do finally get around to fixing it
Bob
Then again it's them that's got to clean up..
Cobbler
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Seeing as we are talking about toilets ……. The other night I got up at about 3am for a leak, 3/4 asleep as usual. Wondered why I was getting wet & realised I’d left the lid down On hands & knees cleaning it up, just what I need at that time of night. Shan’t do that again.
On hands & knees cleaning it up, just what I need at that time of night. Shan’t do that again.Claim it must've been the cat...Seeing as we are talking about toilets ……. The other night I got up at about 3am for a leak, 3/4 asleep as usual. Wondered why I was getting wet & realised I’d left the lid down
In fact the Romans used pi$$ as a cleaner even a tooth whitener...
redlig
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That is a cleaver cat that can put the seat down after it has used the toilet.
I actually knew someone who trained their cat to kind of stand on the seat and use the people toilet, not sure if it was 100% reliable tho..
redlig
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How many men are 100% reliable ? Or for that matter women.
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I remember doing mine at the old house, it went from a few hours work to two whole days, and needed the wall repairing where the tank holding screws were only holding in the tiles they were screwed to, which had come loose, there was a huge gap behind them.you wont be saying wow where when your bent over the toilet cutting the 2 bolts off of them
you will be cursing them as they are the most annoying things to get off when they go rusty and your there with a small hacksaw cutting them in the most uncomfortable position going
wont he kayos
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Good job we had a downstairs toilet as well..... Not trying to scare you @skotl ....
Seeing as we are talking about toilets ……. The other night I got up at about 3am for a leak, 3/4 asleep as usual. Wondered why I was getting wet & realised I’d left the lid down
Even further off topic, but I know a couple of people (me included), who've come over all dizzy, or in my case blacked out and smacked my swede on the khazi on the way down, when having a night time visit to the little boys room.
I believe it's a fairly common thing with being stood up when you've been laying down and your blood pressure's low, so be careful out there people.
There's nowt worse than coming too in a puddle of your own blood and wee.
Sit down toilet visits for me in the night these days, there's less distance to fall.
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I replaced mine as a whole kit. As has been said, to replace that silly bit of ‘cellophane’, meant removing the whole cistern anyway.
It did take me 3 years to finally get the courage/enthusiasm up to dismantle the cistern, and yes, both bolts broke. They always do.
And what idiot fitted the toilet so close into the corner, so that you have to be a contortionist to work on the bloomin’ thing. Oh, yes, that was me.
