Recent content by deanfleet

lol that was in daylight, it was dark at 3pm here today as really bad weather, il try and take a better pic when its not tipping down with rain

hey everyone, bought our first house 2 years back and i noticed that there was a sort of communal fence, it seems to run the length of about 5 houses, it separates the bottom of the back gardens to the houses behind. it looked very rotten when we moved in, but now it has started...

hey guys, Job done went to focus and got a new washer, its a big thick rubber one and cost £1.99. It was indeed the doughnut washer that was leaking and the reason it was leaking beacuse for some strange reason the inner part of the ring had been masacared, it looked as if someone had got...

ok ill nip down to focus and see what they got, surely a foam easher is a foam washer, ill try and match it up with what i got

ok where is the best place to get a good quality douhnut ring? screw fix?

thanks for all your help guys. gonna nip to focus today and see what i can get hold of. Are rubber doughnut rings better than foam ones? cos its a foam one thats on there now cheers

will attempt this some time over the weekend :D at the moment i got a bucket to fill and pour down toilet to flush as ive left the cistern drained. Hopefully the screws should be ok as they ahvent beeen in that long. Ive already got a shut down valve on the incoming water pipe to cistern...

Ok as John mentioned ive investigated and it is indeed leaking from where the cistern connects to the toilet itself, so its coming from where the doughnut ring is as i can see all green inbetween there. Ive yurned the water off to the toilet and have soaked all the water out of the cistern...

yeh ill check the rubber sealer on the base, Saying that the one that came with teh toilet was rubbish so the plumber put a new doughnut ring on so that should be fine. I havent got a ball in the cistern its one of these other types with teh push button flush. will check tonight to see if...

I wrapped toilet roll around the back waste pipe connection last night at midnight and when i got up at 07:30 it was bright green and fell to bits when i picked it up. will do the same around the cistern and see if anything happens

I will double check again when i get home to be sure, so do you mean it could be coming from where the cistern is connected to the bowl and running down to the connector making me think its coming from there? I will double check when i get home and take some pics aswell. cheers for your...

Hi john, Yeh all has been cleaned and is brand new so no chips or anything in the porcelain. No lubricant was used to put it on, a plumber who was a friend of a friend did it for me. Could i get somesort of clear silicon sealer and put in in the connector around the seal to seal it up...

hello believe it or not this is the second one i tried. first i had a nasty £9 one from focus and then this one i got now was £20 i think how much are the multikwik one and where can i get them from? not many big shops where i live lol I work next to jewsons mind dont know if they sell...

hello and thank you for your reply. this is the bit thats leaking, its the same as that except the straight bit is a flexible adjustable length. but connector is the same. <----- this end is leaking Ive drained it etc and checked seal and creconnected it but it just seems to be...

Hey everyone, got major problem with my toilet and was hopeing someone could give me some advice on what to do. We installed a new toilet about 5 months ago. I put one of those coloured blocks in the other day to freshen it up and as it was green when i came home from work there was...