Plastic toilet cistern urgently required!

[bhm1712]

anybody know of any stockists who sell plastic toilet cisterns, close coupled, and bottom entry valves??

all the places ive tried are for order only.

urgently required before christmas!!

cheers

 

[adlplumbing]

plumb center do them

 

[kirkgas]

you dont only get a close coupled cistern what you can also get is a low level cistern and a close coupled kit, try screwfix, i THINK they do plastic ones

 

[bhm1712]

maybe you can advise me, are low level cisterns capable of close coupling as well?

 

[dextrous]

you dont only get a close coupled cistern what you can also get is a low level cistern and a close coupled kit, try screwfix, i THINK they do plastic ones

top tip

 

[dextrous]

maybe you can advise me, are low level cisterns capable of close coupling as well?

Yes

 

[adlplumbing]

no as the connections are different but if you are desperate you may able try and jury rig it but not sure how as i have never tried

 

[bhm1712]

im confused now!

some of you guys are saying yes and some no!!!

 

[dextrous]

no as the connections are different but if you are desperate you may able try and jury rig it but not sure how as i have never tried

Am confused as to why you think the connections are different - to my mind you only need to attach the base plate to the flush outlet as per norm. Where am I going wrong in my thinking

 

[adlplumbing]

plumb center sell some plastic cisterns take the one you got to them ask if they have any like it

 

[bhm1712]

as i understood it, close coupled cisterns have studs built in to allow for the wing nuts which pull the cistern down onto the pan, i didnt think low level cisterns have the studs, however it appears im wrong as the studs are seperate and connect to part of the close coupling kit!

 

[Hugh Jaleak]

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/80267/Plumbing/Toilet-Fittings/Armitage-Shanks-Regal-Cistern#

Looks like a plastic jobby. You can get a close coupling kit. Somone put a pic on here earlier, steel bracket that is held tight but the siphon nut under the cistern. and 2 nuts and bolts that fix through the pan to clamp the lot to the pan.

 

[dextrous]

as i understood it, close coupled cisterns have studs built in to allow for the wing nuts which pull the cistern down onto the pan, i didnt think low level cisterns have the studs

The metal plates have these recesses built into them - the base of cisterns are flat.

 

[adlplumbing]

no as the connections are different but if you are desperate you may able try and jury rig it but not sure how as i have never tried

Am confused as to why you think the connections are different - to my mind you only need to attach the base plate to the flush outlet as per norm. Where am I going wrong in my thinking

i am pretty sure close coupled have a bigger outlet than low level one`s
saying that you could always take hole saw to it and drill two hole`s for the bolt`s

 

[dextrous]

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/80267/Plumbing/Toilet-Fittings/Armitage-Shanks-Regal-Cistern#

Looks like a plastic jobby. You can get a close coupling kit. Somone put a pic on here earlier, steel bracket that is held tight but the siphon nut under the cistern. and 2 nuts and bolts that fix through the pan to clamp the lot to the pan.

plus http://www.screwfix.com/prods/17405/Plumbing/Macerators-Connectors/Comap-Close-Coupling-Kit