Recent content by strugglingdiyer

Not what I wanted to hear, but thanks! Not sure even how to identify them. Head seems to be 8-9mm across with a 2mm hole...

I'm aiming to replace the hinge on the door of a Bosch WAQ283S1GB/01 washing machine, with the hinge carrying a part number 9000463344. I have found an equivalent part on eBay, but when I removed the door I found these little plastic fasteners instead of screws. I thought they might be pop...

Well, whether it's penny-pinching or lack of care, it leads to the same outcome in this case. The plug was odd. The plastic end cap, with the big "plus" mark in the top, had started to fragment into pieces, so that when after removing the cistern I gave it an exploratory poke, there was nothing...

I was a bit surprised and disappointed by just how cheap the components were, to be honest. It was a new build with a tight budget, so obviously there's pressure on margins from the plumbing team's perspective, but the screws they used to hold the cistern to the wall had corroded badly after...

Thank you, that was educational. I have a Screwfix locally but 2665R isn't available at the moment. They have something similar on Amazon, which I have ordered, but in present circumstances will probably take most of a week, so I will probably use the existing inlet pipe for now and return to...

I have now got the cistern connector kit and a doughnut washer, and I've turned off the mains water and drained the cistern (again) in preparation for fitting them. 1) Does anybody have any advice on sliding the toilet back into place onto the main soil pipe after I've done the cistern screws...

I think the Fluidmaster is a 50mm hex nut - can't check right now as I've got the cistern on the loo again, full of water. Testing to see if it's stopped dripping.

Thanks to the advice received here I have the Fluidmaster fill and flush valves installed. They seem to work fine, though getting the water threaded properly onto the fill valve with my left hand while lying on my back was a real sod. However, the cistern is bolted on to the lower part using...

Thanks, though I might want to avoid that model if it's going to disintegrate within 5 years.

Managed to find the stopcock and drain the cistern today. However, the only way to get the cistern off was to pull the entire toilet away from the wall, having first removed the screws at the top edge of the cistern holding it into the wall. In addition to those two screws, all that was holding...

Thanks, would this replace everything in the photo above? If so, I guess the thing to do is switch off water, drain tank, take measurements to see if it would fit.

Quite happy to do that too, if it looks easier. I don't want to spend 5 hours trying to save 5 quid - sooner just do it quickly and properly. Problem is knowing where to start!

The toilet in our bathroom is about five years old. Over the past few weeks it has developed a fault so that after flushing the water continues to run into the bowl. It does eventually stop, but it takes a while and it seems to be taking longer and longer. Taking off the cistern lid I can see...

Thanks, that seems simple enough. Something heavy gauge would work I think.

I have thought of this - as you say it has some advantages - but the problem is that although there is a step of about 2 feet at this point, there is no clean, regular "lip" you could push the plastic tub up against. In other words, I can't work out how to reliably direct the flow of water from...