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Ta very much Chris. Will do as you advise.

@denso, P&D, Delalio & Poles - I have to say, you gentlemen are worth your weight in gold! I have not come across an advice forum which offers advice as helpfully, as quickly & as knowledgeably as you lot. Well done gents! Please keep it up.

You are spot on with your dates, Poles! We moved in in 1975 and the bathroom fittings were brand new at the time. Avocado with gold metallic taps. The bathroom fittings, washbasin and tub went in around 2009 being replaced with a sit down shower. I do intend replacing the loo too, but have...

Many thanks for this Denso! From what I've discovered after browsing the Web on this topic, a Close Coupled pan looks like With a hole in the back of the pan, into which the base end of the syphon protrudes. This base end is a 5-10cm diameter nylon (or polythene) tube, threaded on its outside...

Thank you Denso. I shall turn off the gate valve and flush the cistern to speed up its emptying. Then wait for the syphon leak to complete the draining. (a) Wall fixings: there are two of these, one on each side of the cistern, near its top (see attached photo IMG_9472) which shows one of...

I like your step by step approach Denso. Thank you! Please tell me what I must do to remove the cistern from the pan.

8 hours after shutting the gate valve, I opened the cistern this morning. As you can see from the attached photos, the cistern was bone dry inside.

@denso13 "Turn off the feed to the toilet and see if the cistern empties overnight." Will do this tonight and report the outcome tomorrow.

@dilalio No its not a throne. Its a thinking seat, upon which many a penny has dropped (amongst other things). And I AM asking you gentlemen for advice on its maintenance. I did not realise that it would be such a difficult task.

Thanks CountryFan. What do I do to check if it is the float valve which is faulty? Remove the cistern cover and hold the float ball up, and see if the water is still forming the ripples? To Herts P&D, if you mean the orange colour of the first photo, then its a trick of the camera flash used to...

Hello all, I have an ancient Cistern syphon (see attached photos IMG_9460, IMG_9461), which was seen by a plumber 4 years ago, because the WC handle became difficult to turn. I had wanted a new syphon but the plumber took a look at the crack on top of the handle (IMG_9462) and declined to...

After thinking about the history of steps which I undertook and the results, I am still hopeful that there's an obvious problem which is easy to resolve, rather than that the boiler has packed up. I say this because whenever I touch the front panel of the boiler, it is warm even though there is...

Desperation with snow on the horizon.To quote your favorite detective:"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth". Since we have (as far as I can see), eliminated the non-boiler problems, only the boiler remains. as a souce of remaining...

The new braided coupler tubing from Screwfix was successfully installed. Before doing this, I opened the water mains stopcock in the kitchen and confirmed a good flow from the flexible grey plastic mains water feed pipe. The EV was completely empty. It was removed, its air bladder pressurised...

Its been a busy day at my end. But now I'm finally able to type a response to all the posts after #48. I managed to get the name of the installing plumber, by searching through my emails. Rang him up, he couldn't remember the manufacturer of the PRV but said that he bought it from Wolseley. So...

@BlueLoo Thank you for taking the time and making the effort to walk me thru' the entire process. I really am grateful for the clear explanations in post #45. I have a confession to make. Earlier this winter, when at the end of my thether with the time it was taking to pressurise the blooming...

I just checked while cooking supper. There's a stopcock under the kitchen sink. one inlet and a 3 branched outlet. One branch goes to the kichen cold water tap. and the other two disappear under the kitchen tiles to God knows where. From the discussion so far I'm assuming that one of the two...

Thank you Terry, I know where it is in the pavement outside, the little white plastic wheel. But what I cannot remember is do you turn the wheel clockwise or anticlockwise to shut it? EDIT: And once the mains is shut, open the cold water tap in the kitchen sink to drain out any remaining mains...

@polesapart, BlueLoo, Harry, Marty: Thank you Gentlemen! Unfortunately other committments prevented me from tracing the source of the flexibe grey feed into the expansion tank. But many thanks PolesApart for your clearly explained & helpful post #37. I picked up the filling loop from Screwfix...

Well if it had, then how did the setup work for the three years immediately following the installation of the EV? I never realised how complex troubleshooting in plumbing was! Its like hunting submarines, or solving murder mysteries. You have my respect gentlemen! I recently completed a Level...