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  1. #1
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    Default Cistern Not filling

    Hei Guys,
    The toilet cistern has stopped filling - water supply is good and I have replaced the inlet valve.
    Any idea's what else it could be?
    Cheers

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    Try taking the hose off the inlet and see if water flows OK and if so reconnect and remove the cap from the inlet valve and see if the water flows. There maybe a a blocked wire guaze filter, A good blow of compressed air may also help

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    If it's a Porcher, I'd suggest a new toilet.

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    A while back the dogs must have got bored and when that happens one of the things they sometimes do is take take it out on the retic. They only took out two risers but they were on the uphill side of the house.
    Because they ripped them out underground it took me a while to find and fix the breaksand by then just about every single water using device in the house was crudded up with gunk, dink water filter, washing machine, shower heads, dishwasher filter and the dunnies. No filters on the dunnies so a great long great slug of gunk built up between the cistern valve and the tap.

    Slightly better than last time when they dug up alongside the side of the house and tore up all the retic wiring.

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    Default dunny wont flush

    This thread reminded me of a fellow work mate who went home for lunch and his wife says that the dunny wont flush - backed up. He opened up the inspection doo daa for the sewerage and as the house was near the bottom the sloping street and gravity doing what it does best ended up with him being covered in a fountain of crap and paper.

    He manages to get the inspection hole secured and cleaned up the mess.

    Says to wife I am going to have shower and go back to work.

    She says that the shower will be a cold one as all the hot water has been used for washing the clothes, For those that live or lived in a wheat belt town in winter know what cold water really means but he did what he had to do quickly.

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    Someone turned off the isolation valve?
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    This place is mains watered, but the toilet and outside taps are run off a tank, that tank is full I checked - the tank is hooked up the mains so it can't run dry anyway.
    After blowing $20 on a new inlet valve I found out that its a problem with the pump cos the outside taps are dead as well.
    So its bucket filling the cistern until the agent sends a plumber out.
    Thanks for the info, you guys as always are great.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    A while back the dogs must have got bored and when that happens one of the things they sometimes do is take take it out on the retic. They only took out two risers but they were on the uphill side of the house.
    Because they ripped them out underground it took me a while to find and fix the breaksand by then just about every single water using device in the house was crudded up with gunk, dink water filter, washing machine, shower heads, dishwasher filter and the dunnies. No filters on the dunnies so a great long great slug of gunk built up between the cistern valve and the tap.

    Slightly better than last time when they dug up alongside the side of the house and tore up all the retic wiring.
    This reminds of a country town where I taught in WA, being a country town the kids knew where the teachers lived and occasionally we got rocks on the roof and other childish stuff.
    One teacher had a fish pond, and the fish were dying mysteriously, he had the water and everything else checked, everything was fine, so he assumed it was kids causing the problems - for months he went on about the bloody kids killing his fish.
    One night he heard noise so ran outside with a torch to investigate and found a very large but friendly rottweiler using hs fish pond as a wading pool.

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    Quote Originally Posted by smidsy View Post
    This reminds of a country town where I taught in WA, being a country town the kids knew where the teachers lived and occasionally we got rocks on the roof and other childish stuff.
    One teacher had a fish pond, and the fish were dying mysteriously, he had the water and everything else checked, everything was fine, so he assumed it was kids causing the problems - for months he went on about the bloody kids killing his fish.
    One night he heard noise so ran outside with a torch to investigate and found a very large but friendly rottweiler using hs fish pond as a wading pool.
    And this reminds me of when we got our first Border Collie. She was extremely cute but very stubborn and was always up to some mischief or other. One day I was working in the shed and noticed she was coming in wet. Not that surprised because we has set up a kiddie paddle pool for her to play in. On hearing some splashing I looked out the shed window hoping to see her in the paddle pool but she was not there. Then I went out of the shed and saw her sitting in the fish pond with one of the fish firmly clamped in her jaws.
    Thing was. the pond was covered with a light weight mesh but she had squirmed under that and pushed it aside.

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