Emergency Plumber. Out of hours.

[moonlight]

If he had put a bracket across both sides of the arm, would have been temporarily fixed. It dips in the middle. If he is not that stupid why didn't he just take the diaphragm out of the new one and repair the old one, or even take the arm off the old one. Most definitely stupid.

 

[WaterTight]

Depending just how out-of-ours the job was I could see it being a £300 ish job (with monobloc tap supply/fit inc too.) But presuming not 3am in London, yes, a rip-off.

If you keep no more than 7 or 8 different float/inlet valves on the van then you will have one for every situation.

Looks like good situation for one of these (but they are pricey.)

http://www.NoLinkingToThis/p/thomas...bottom-inlet-fill-valve-with-delay-fill/4777r

 

[moonlight]

That's what it has now, should have posted the after picture too.

 

[Old Account]

The plumber surely didn't charge anything for that bodge?

You'll be surprised what people charge. Some of them they are that cheeky to charge a fortune

 

[Callsimon55]

Well you have all missed the point. You can not know the circumstances relaling to this clever fix . But please understand that the only way you can sensibly deal with these old cistern parts is to change them all. I do, and charge £68 plus vat with three year warranty..... maybe misguided but he did try!

 

[moonlight]

Well you have all missed the point. You can not know the circumstances relaling to this clever fix . But please understand that the only way you can sensibly deal with these old cistern parts is to change them all. I do, and charge £68 plus vat with three year warranty... maybe misguided but he did try!

If he didn't have the correct part he should have isolated the supply. Very poor workmanship. This will never stop filling. Far from clever. Take a good look at the picture. I went to repair the mess he left.