Seeking all plumbers and DIY fullas

[bomma]

does it have a different Ballcock inside?? sounds like the up stairs on is pushing the water through a smaller hole..and making the extra noise because of!

dunno but will definately have a look when i get home today

cheers

[bomma]

ummm so i got home all ready to sort out the toilet but when i tried to get the lid off it wudnt budge!!! think its bolted to something.....bloody toilets too fancy for my feeble mind to get open and after a couple of minutes of gawking i gave up, had a few beers and went to town......

but i had a look at the pipe that goes from the toilet to the tap and its bloody thin!!! wudnt be surprised cowpoos if, like you had said, this was the reason it fills slowly and makes a god-awful noise when refilling....

[ital916]

ummm so i got home all ready to sort out the toilet but when i tried to get the lid off it wudnt budge!!! think its bolted to something.....bloody toilets too fancy for my feeble mind to get open and after a couple of minutes of gawking i gave up, had a few beers and went to town......

but i had a look at the pipe that goes from the toilet to the tap and its bloody thin!!! wudnt be surprised cowpoos if, like you had said, this was the reason it fills slowly and makes a god-awful noise when refilling....

I reckon what you need to do is create a room under teh toilet, find a spare saturn 5 rocket, remove its turbopump, then install it into the room, create pressurised liguid oxygen and hydrogen tanks and then cool the room with liquid nitrogen to operating temperature *as turbopumps get veeery hot*, then rig it to the flush button and also the refill mechanism. Thus when you flush the turbo pump spools up..give it a min then fires and whammo instant flush, plus it will refill at an amazingly quick rate albeit with lots of noise and the possibility of death as it would probably just explode, but what a way to go eh!

[mowgli]

However the upstairs toilet doesn't seem to follow suit and takes an age to fill up and is noisy as hell when it does fill up....

Sounds like your bogger has seen its fair share of floaters. Inside the cistern, under the ballcock valve there should be a silencer tube of about 10mm diameter. These sometimes go brittle and break off leading to noisy fills. The silencer tube is cheap to replace from any plumbing merchant. You'll probably need to remove the left over threaded bit from the ballcock valve before you can screw the new tube in.

If you can replace a light bulb you can replace a silencer tube.

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