OH says there's a leak in her bathroom. On checking, yes there is, not a lot but enough to wonder why that should be as I only repaired it around 18 months ago when there was a similar problem. Anyway, I know roughly what the problem is as it is a close coupled WC and there's every possibility it is from the doughnut (donut) coupling which I had replaced, maybe it just needs tightening up!
Of course not dear reader, of course not. Tightening it didn't do anything so I took it apart, that's unscrewed from the wall after draining down, taking off the attaching wing nuts, turning off the water and disconnecting the feed pipe.
All looks OK perhaps the doughnut isn't seated exactly in the centre but it should take a small leak and so I reassemble and then I get the full Niagara coming out. So what on earth can this be, it hasn't been flushed so there must be a leak and I have to drain it down, disconnect it all and then testing the cistern and testing it with a few cups of water I find that the seal must have gone underneath! So it's the cistern flushing mechanism washer must have deteriorated.
I've only recently done the downstairs cloakroom and so I've hot footed to Amazon, and a new flush unit, filler unit and a new doughnut (it's best to do all at the same time - which I should have done last time). Anyway hopefully that will arrive today and I can fix that. Along with the downstairs cloakroom PIR detector and light fitting which I also need to fix!
It's never ending and I guess I just need to make a list of everything and tackle them one at a time which I would do except these two recent jobs have only happened this week! Onward and upward.
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