Toilets - Page 2

emzy · 19-05-2008, 19:35

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Originally Posted by Benipete

Sounds like a Spanish one is it a Rocca

I have no idea, havent seen anything on the toilet to say who the manufacturer is

Retlaw · 19-05-2008, 19:56

They are made that way to stop you puttng in them blue thingy's, they rot the valve on the end of the syphon plunger.
Its probably cheaper to replace the whole unit these days than to fit a new syphon.
Retlaw.

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Originally Posted by emzy

Strange question (sorry) but I know one of you out there will be able to give me an answer to this:

When I had my new bathroom fitted, I questioned the inspector as the lid will not lift off my "cistern" thingie at the back of the toilet (technical description that!!) I wanted to put them loo-blue efforts in. I was told that you are not meant to be able to lift them off so just said oh ok. Later wondered if this was right or not, what if there was a problem and a plumber needed to get to the bits inside?? Should you be able to lift the lid off?? Please can someone tell me, I want blue water

Benipete · 19-05-2008, 19:57

If you can't get hold of the plumber who fit it let me know i will have a look at it but it sounds Spanish to me.

emzy · 19-05-2008, 19:59

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Originally Posted by Benipete

If you can't get hold of the plumber who fit it let me know i will have a look at it but it sounds Spanish to me.

It was a subcontractor on behalf of hyndburn homes, might just call them out about the flush sticking problem, they will have to take it off then lol

emamum · 19-05-2008, 20:00

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Originally Posted by MUMMIBOO

It will come off but you will have to put it back together again! we have fitted our own and it was a pain in the backside !!!! they are not made to be lifted. because the inside is conected to the flush buttons for the short flush/long flush.

i dont think you did it right

Royboy39 · 19-05-2008, 20:16

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Originally Posted by Benipete

Sounds like a Spanish one is it a Rocca

Nowt wrong with Rocca......Ive got one.

If the blue flush can't be inserted..use bleach.

Flush toilets are a luxury....
Haslingden 1947 ..Tippler...Takes a hell of a long time to drop.
Malaya 1958...foot pads with a hole in the ground.
Malaya 1959...multiple personnel toilets...mind you don't get your goolies trapped when the buckets are emptied without warning.
Malaya 1960....Hole in the ground...a retaining pole to swing and bite on to but ensure that one of your so called friends has not sawn through the pole first.
Church 1962....Outside toilet...100 yards from farmhouse...newspaper on a string...wood board...scrubbed every week...over a dustbin...my job to empty it every week.
Blackburn 1964....Outside toilets....bloody freezing.
Don't talk to me about toilets........You don't know your born.
Happy days.

Benipete · 19-05-2008, 20:32

Never said there was anything wrong with Rocca but they are different and some designs are a pain.But as i spent a year in Benidorm mending the things i may be of some help.

West Ender · 19-05-2008, 20:37

That takes me back, Royboy, the tippler. I can remember my mum, when I was very small, instructing me to run the cold tap for a few minutes after going to the loo.

When we had an inside lavatory installed in the bathroom it was like the height of luxury. No more going outside (all of 6 feet from the back door) with the risk of huge spiders (my brothers always told me there would be one and it would be lurking just under the rim, waiting to jump on to my bum) and the very real peril of daddy-long-legs in August - how do you answer Nature's call while screaming and trying to swat the hideous thing with a piece of Izal loo roll? It's impossible.

My present loo is at least 20 years old and needs replacing (as does the rest of the bathroom suite). I used to use those blue things (the lid lifts off mine very easily) but now I just plonk a bit of Domestos in the pan every night. I stopped using the loo-bloos when I realised they were leaving a slimy deposit at the bottom of the cistern.

emzy · 19-05-2008, 20:38

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Originally Posted by Royboy39

Nowt wrong with Rocca......Ive got one.

If the blue flush can't be inserted..use bleach.

Flush toilets are a luxury....
Haslingden 1947 ..Tippler...Takes a hell of a long time to drop.
Malaya 1958...foot pads with a hole in the ground.
Malaya 1959...multiple personnel toilets...mind you don't get your goolies trapped when the buckets are emptied without warning.
Malaya 1960....Hole in the ground...a retaining pole to swing and bite on to but ensure that one of your so called friends has not sawn through the pole first.
Church 1962....Outside toilet...100 yards from farmhouse...newspaper on a string...wood board...scrubbed every week...over a dustbin...my job to empty it every week.
Blackburn 1964....Outside toilets....bloody freezing.
Don't talk to me about toilets........You don't know your born.
Happy days.

Sorry for asking advice from fellow accywebbers, didnt realise it would cause such offense or such an issue. I may only be young but I am well aware what its like to have to use outside toilets / buckets / holes in the ground etc. Was only asking a simple question as to whethere there was a fault with my lav or not

Royboy39 · 19-05-2008, 20:43

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Originally Posted by emzy

Sorry for asking advice from fellow accywebbers, didnt realise it would cause such offense or such an issue. I may only be young but I am well aware what its like to have to use outside toilets / buckets / holes in the ground etc. Was only asking a simple question as to whethere there was a fault with my lav or not

No problem Love...not having a go at you in any way,shape or form.
Please don't be offended it wasn't supposed to come across like that.

emzy · 19-05-2008, 20:48

Thought you were then,

I aint that posh, ive p'd behind a bush many a time

but just couldnt figure this loo out. My old house had push button loo and could lift the lid on that, I just found it strange that you cant with this one, and given how "dodgy" some of the work has been done I just wanted to check before making a prat of myself ringing hyndburn homes lol

MUMMIBOO · 20-05-2008, 16:17

You just have a short flush loo or close coupled loo em, does it have 2 small half buttons to make up a full button?

Margaret Pilkington · 20-05-2008, 16:23

We have had one of these toilets fitted for the last six or seven years, and have never had any problems with it.
It is better to have the long and short flush...uses less water that way.
I don't bother with the blue loo things....I prefer my water to be the colour of water

MUMMIBOO · 20-05-2008, 16:25

Its short flush= No 1 and big flush= No 2. If thats what you have (which sounds like it to me) then you cant take the lid off willy nilly the internal mechanisam is connected directly to the buttons. If the buttons are sticking give it a few flushes before you call them out they can soon sort that.

You just wont be able to use the loo blu!

Royboy39 · 20-05-2008, 16:26

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Originally Posted by MUMMIBOO

Does it have 2 small half buttocks to make up a full bottom?

What sort of a question is that?