Thread: How to fix a running toilet?

I need to fix the running water in our downstairs bathroom toilet. I've googled the subject and all the instructions start with:

Step 1: Remove the lid from the cistern.


But how do you get the bloody lid off the cistern?

It's not a regular lid, it's one of those ones with the 2 buttons on top like this.



I haven't tried forcing it for fear of causing damage.

Any help would be great. Cheers

Push the buttons in and try to wind out the ring the circles them?

Usually helps to vaseline your ring

I'm with Satonic the chrome ring around the flush button's, should have a thread.

PM Butterfly see of he'll come round to help, he's very handy!

Originally Posted by Satonic

Push the buttons in and try to wind out the ring the circles them?

Cheers

Originally Posted by Ratchaburi

I'm with Satonic the chrome ring around the flush button's, should have a thread.

Cheers

Originally Posted by Jizzytwat

Piss orf!

Right I'll give it a go when I get home.

Anything else unusual about this style of shitter when I do get in there?

I just checked mine, just lifts straight off the same and the usual ones.

It's got 2 lengths of plastic that are connected to the buttons on top and they just locate, not physically connected to the cistern itself.

If that makes sense....

Nearly forgot, FP you tart!!

Get a plumber out, you slack ringed fukker

If your water is running into the cistern after you flushed the toilet and it does not stop you should be able to adjust the screw in there on the ballcock arm and that should do the job unless your ballcock is knackered then just replace it.All that is happening is that the valve is not closing and just lets in more water.its an easy fix I think.

Originally Posted by Primo

its an easy fix

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

How to fix a running toilet?

Not a chance.

Dynamite the fucker and start again.

Why does the terminology in this thread read like a buggering manual?

FP, good luck with your toilet; pic thread - toilet plumbing for Thai beginners.

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

I need to fix the running water in our downstairs bathroom toilet. I've googled the subject and all the instructions start with: Step 1: Remove the lid from the cistern. But how do you get the bloody lid off the cistern? It's not a regular lid, it's one of those ones with the 2 buttons on top like this.

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

I haven't tried forcing it for fear of causing damage.

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Why does the terminology in this thread read like a buggering manual?

So you've read a buggering manual?

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Why does the terminology in this thread read like a buggering manual?

So you've read a buggering manual?

Oops..

^^Nice one S.Landreth cheers. I hadn't thought of searching "Push Button Toilet".

Originally Posted by jizzybloke

I just checked mine, just lifts straight off the same and the usual ones.

It's got 2 lengths of plastic that are connected to the buttons on top and they just locate, not physically connected to the cistern itself.

If that makes sense....

Yep my shitter looks just like the one pictured and the top just lifts off...... no need to unscrew anything.

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

Originally Posted by Primo

its an easy fix

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

How to fix a running toilet?

Not a chance.

Dynamite the fucker and start again.

Totally unnecessary. Just tie its legs together....that'll slow it down some.

Oh and yes.....mine is the same and just lifts off too. No screws at all

A 'Shifter'?

Nice word, FP, brought back from the dead... You're all a bunch of shifters...

Is it just a trickle or a stead stream??

If it's just a trickle then it sounds like you've got a dirt or grit on your flap to me

O.k. I've totally failed at the first hurdle. I've tried the comments and watched the video's and I still can't get the bloody top off.

Also the wife has just informed me that the toilet in her bathroom has the same problem so now I need to fix two.

Originally Posted by boloa

Is it just a trickle or a stead stream??

Downstairs bathroom is a trickle that stops if you press the button up and down a few times.

The wifes bathroom is also a trickle but it doesn't stop when you press the button a few times.



If I press the button down then there are some lines which look a bit like a cassette crank set on a mountain bike so I'm wondering if it needs a special tool. Like a crank set remover.

There is no twisting able to be done here.



I can get my fingers under it an lift it up a little but it won't pop off like in the second video. It feels like its connected to a tube that goes right to the bottom of the cistern.



I can lift the lid a little like this from both sides but the fucker won't go much further.

My bathroom works totally fine with no problems which means we are far more superior at taking shits than Thai's

Originally Posted by jizzybloke

Nearly forgot, FP you tart!!

Do you wanna come round and fix it before you go back?