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Does anyone know how to fix a flush syphon? The water just doesn't want to flow  :(

Call a plumber out

http://www.videojug.com/film/troubleshooting-the-toilet-wont-flush

Probably need a new diaphragm.

Although sounds like you need a new house tbh

I was thinking this.

If only 4D had asked for house buying advice in the first place,this wouldn't have happend

Take the body out

He's just moved?

Bucket of water job......let the love flow...

bump!

Does anyone know the standard syphon size, toolstation sell em for about a fiver but have 3 different sizes.

I'd like to stick your head in a fucking loo.

It's funny because it's true  ;D

Haven't you got a bog brush then Hert?

Just going to do this job myself on a close coupled toilet. Can't flush it, and the diaphragm is not easily replaceable.

Also the bloody thing doesn't have a stop valve so this is what I intend to do:

 - Turn off stopcock,
 - Drain cistern.
 - Unscrew water inlet pipe from toilet ingress valve.
 - Put end stop on water inlet pipe.
 - Turn on stopcock and check for leaks.

That gives me more time to take the toilet apart without leaving the house with water. I'm going to remove the cistern and check which size syphon/coupling kit I need.

I (probably) have a syphon (depending on size needed), but need a new coupling kit as the old one is rusted to hell and is bound to need a Jim Duggan on it, same with one of the wall screws.

Fit a service valve too whilst you're at it incase you need to do anything in the future or you end up with a leak after doing your work.
Just measure your one and then add about 25mm to allow for the thread  :)

Fitting a service valve seems to involve cutting pipes = more chance of leak than refitting end stop!

So you've been without this toilet for over 3 months?

Nope, we have three.

If you've already turned the water off at the mains and the pipe's drained down it's a piece of piss job to cut the pipe a bit and put on the service valve - you could even get a push fit fitting. If you turn on the mains and your cistern's not properly sealed to the pan you're going to have water everywhere. Just my opinion :)

[Donna single handedly destroys long held preconceptions about women and DIY.]   ;D

Haha! DIY's like a bus man's holiday for me :)

:) And conversely the last time I tried something as simple as replacing the ballcock in our upstairs loo we ended up with a 1st floor fountain gushing water into the garden ("It's that classy water feature you've always wanted love" as I tried to explain to the missus) until the plumber came out smirking to put right my foolishness. I'm a lot more 4D than dporter

Me too ! Hence the reluctance to cut anything even if she is right (women are always right, so they say).

Managed to decouple the cistern and put it back together on the other toilet. What could go wrong :)

I'm actually quite a handyman  :toocool:

I just don't like being gung go (ever since I put a nail through the main branch pipe of the hot water tank)

So you've been without  THIS toilet for three months ?

Yes, and no. I have a bucket, for flushing

Just get a fucking plumber in.

If I put a syphon in = £5

Plumber + syphon = £60

I changed mine without even checking sizes. Just picked up the first one I saw in B&Q, went home and drained the cistern and swapped them over.

Hope that helps :)

Picked up a syphon yesterday from Toolstation for £4.85 - bargain. Drained the cistern, the awkward bit is yet to be done.

My problem is bog related.
I've been constipated for 2 weeks. Piles the size of a pea for almost as long. Docs put me on penecilin and juice that makes me shit through the eye of a needle. Made Doncaster Rovers an interesting game I can tell you.

You lost much weight?

Job done, thread closed. The diaphragm was knackered, total cost to me = £4.85. Pleased with that.

You want to watch that knackered diaphram, that happened to me once & 9 months later i had another daughter.

I always thought you were a bloke?

I am, i didn't say it was mine.

He's a cunt!