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Sorted it out now.Had a mixture of bleach and boiling water there for a while and then got a bit fed up and blasted the cold water tap.Cleared the whole bleeding lot,who needs Mr Muscle.

Hey Tom any comments are help to a novice like me.Changing the whole fitting was my first thought,its just that i needed a bit of encouragement and mainly confidence to do the job myself.Can i buy the whole thing at B+Q if i ask one of them helpers,or do i have to buy the washer and stuff seperate?

I had a bathroom sink that was a bit slow for the water to go down.I thought that i would try and rod it with a piece of insulated wire from work that did the trick once before.Now nothing will go down the plug hole.The bat plug hole is ok so i think it may be something to do with the trap.I...

Ah hope you have moved onto this problem now sime10.I have tried to tighten the hand tightening piece until it will not go anymore and still it leaks ONLY when flushed,all other times the water does not seem to come out of the cystern.The pipe is moveable by hand either back up to the cystern or...

Just completed stage one sime10.Sorted out the perfume bottle(Hugo Boss For Women by the way).I took out the pan and it was there stuck in the straight before it went to the outside wall.I have now safely secured the pan down and gonna hope for the best.My other problem of leaking still exists...

Ok sime10 thanks for your help on BOTH my problems.Your a star for taking the time out to help.Will put my plan into action after 1pm tomorrow. :D

Yep its upstairs in the bathroom.

It can't have gone too far as the coil that i have from work to rod it is only around 3 foot long.Its bendy and seems to dislodge it to let the solids and paper pass it but never actually knocks it out and into the outside soil pipes.I havent had any problems out side the house so im thinking...

Yep the cystern is stuck to the wall and is seperate to the toilet pan which is below and a little away from the wall.There is one pipe coming from the cystern to the pan.This enters the pan at the top but at the back of it.I have just double checked and it is not leaking and bone dry,now i have...

Ah sorry.Yes there is a pipe between the cystern and the pan and the leak is at the cystern end.Sorry about the confusion.

There is a bend at the bottom of the pan and then an upward part which leads to a straight.Could the bottle have been sucked passed the bend and upwards into the straight?The straight part has a connection that turns into a plastic pipe before it goes outside.Maybe i could do something there?

Can i not leave the cystern on and take the top off?Then work on it from the bottom.Yeah i think its what you would call close coupled,there is a circular bit with a hand tight grip on it then something red and then a white plastic nut that attaches to the underneath of the cystern.Is that right?

I've already stuck my hand down as far as i can get it and can't feel a thing.How far would it be able to go before getting stuck?

When i flush the loo,i have a leak coming from the underneath of the cystern where the pipe to the pan starts off.I'm guessing that maybe a washer has broken or something like that as no matter how tight i screw the fitting nothing stops it from pouring out.I now have a bucket behind my toilet...

My girlfriend has gone and dropped a perfume bottle down the pan and it has disappeared to god knows where.Now when solids pass down the water level comes right up to the top of the pan and stays there for a good couple of minutes then gradually goes down.Sometimes it will unblock itself but the...