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allanwhyte77
Hi Forum, Thanks in advance to any advice offered. I've been battling with a new close coupled toilet I've recently installed. The toilet came with badly translated instructions but I finally figured them out and got it all put together. It's one of these toilets where the plastic fixing bolts go through the cistern. I noticed there was a constant slow stream into the pan. I took it all to bits and tightened everything up further, still the same, so after about 5 attempts of tightning everything up I applyed silicone sealant and gave it 24 hours to dry.
The stream of water was still happening. I'd imagine at this point, the water would fill a teaspoon in about a couple of hours. At this point I decided to replace all the internal parts with a fluidmaster kit, new dounut and metal fixing kit.I stripped off all of silicone I'd applyed earlier. Fitted the new parts, tightened it all up and still leaked a bit into the pan so took it to bits again and applied a bead of plumbers gold around the inside of the cistern underneath the flush valve.
The trickle is still happening all be it tiny. I put food colouring in the sistern but no colouring was in the pan 24 hours later. I then flushed the toilet a few times to clear it of the colouring, left it 24 hours then dried the pan to make sure it was completely dry. I taped a single sheet of toilet paper against the wall of the pan where it was leaking and left it overnight.
The sheet of toilet paper had a 2" patch of dampness on it. Is this amount of leakage a concern that I should be bothered about as I can't seem to resolve it any further? I'm on a water meter. Sorry if I've been a bit long winded in the post.
The stream of water was still happening. I'd imagine at this point, the water would fill a teaspoon in about a couple of hours. At this point I decided to replace all the internal parts with a fluidmaster kit, new dounut and metal fixing kit.I stripped off all of silicone I'd applyed earlier. Fitted the new parts, tightened it all up and still leaked a bit into the pan so took it to bits again and applied a bead of plumbers gold around the inside of the cistern underneath the flush valve.
The trickle is still happening all be it tiny. I put food colouring in the sistern but no colouring was in the pan 24 hours later. I then flushed the toilet a few times to clear it of the colouring, left it 24 hours then dried the pan to make sure it was completely dry. I taped a single sheet of toilet paper against the wall of the pan where it was leaking and left it overnight.
The sheet of toilet paper had a 2" patch of dampness on it. Is this amount of leakage a concern that I should be bothered about as I can't seem to resolve it any further? I'm on a water meter. Sorry if I've been a bit long winded in the post.
