Cracked toilet cistern

[John506]

Doing a bathroom up for a guy I used to work with, cutting out all the old pipework that fed the old appliances, was leaving the toilet in place because we made a temporary bathroom in the next new room (with a bath & shower)that was going to be made into a bedroom.

So I'm slogged over the toilet getting into the corner with my pipe slice cutting the pipes quite roughly because it was hard to access, and all I hear is a crack. I then look at the cistern and hear more cracks as they ran from bottom to the top, small leaks started leaking from the cracks!

Fearing that the cistern would just explode I had to wrap my arms around it and flush it.

So a temporary backplate and outside tap was fitted to the wall by the toilet with a bucket underneath, for the more "old style" of flushing!

 

[PaulJR]

reminds me of a similar episode. Wife and I returned from visiting some friends who have moved to Spain (lucky B......ds) and I notice water in the pantry. Track it down to the cistern in the bathroom above. Cistern is leaking on the inlet. Small leak, so I reach out and tighten the plastic nut with my hand........crrrrk. Cistern cracks straight up the back.

Ho hum, straight to local DIY place (it's a Sunday) and buy new toilet. To cap it all this toilet had a faulty flush valve and would not stop running...replacement was no better, had to buy a proper one in the end.