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I own an ArmitageShanks fairly compact cistern pictured.
Does anyone know the model and make?
1, Is it close-coupled only or can it be converted to free standing above bowl?
2, Which close-coupled toilet bowls is this compatible with? A wide selection or just one bowl?
3, Modern cisterns like this no longer have an overflow pipe going outside the house?
How does this work on this model?
4, Are the inner workings so far as you can see in place and OK?
5, The cold water feed goes to the long thin white pipe with a screw in system as normal?
Thanks

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Can be converted to a flush pipe etc just need L brackets and a flush pipe and nut etc

Any of you don’t mind them not matching colour / style

no internal overflow via siphon just need a overflow blanking plug

Would change them as you have it out

That’s the fill valve
 
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Can be converted to a flush pipe etc just need L brackets and a flush pipe and nut etc

Any of you don’t mind them not matching colour / style

no internal overflow via siphon just need a overflow blanking plug

Would change them as you have it out

That’s the fill valve

Thanks for this.
I've been unable to get a watertight seal after I removed the old cistern and fitted the new one using a plastic pipe due to leaks at the nut and bolt at the top as well as problems fixing the plastic pipe in a watertight way to the back of the new loo.
I assume that close-coupled is designed to dispense with that problem or to at least reduce it by bringing the two together and this may explain why nearly all new ones now are close-coupled?
I'm planning to match the white cistern with a new close-coupled loo with easier fitting kit and will remove the Heritage floral loo (I got it for £5 down the council tip) and use it as an outdoor planter.
That cistern with the metal clamp at the bottom is designed, I think, specifically for close-coupling and I think the metal two point nut and bolt fixes it to the loo.




I'm minded, now, to go close-coupled, which I think is
 

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