Refurbished Wooden Lead Lined HL Cisterns

[WHPES]

I do a number of these up for people wanting period plumbing fittings. Prices start at £100 fully stripped down and refurbed with new fittings and ready to install. Choice of finishes and stains.

 

[that bloke.]

do you do any other period plumbing stuff? or is it just cisterns?

 

[WHPES]

Yes I can do most stuff (or arrange for it to be done if needed). I have period column rads and rad valves too at the moment.

I also buy them as removed from existing installations. I purchase most types of antique reclaimed basins, WCs, brackets and fittings etc from the 1900s to the 1940s.

I don't bother with taps unless they are an unusual design or in really good nick as they are more trouble than they are worth to fix up.

 

[that bloke.]

what kind of prices are your rads and valves?
also any tips on restoring an old pan? i just bought this as a nice quirky addition to my antique bathroom , i haven't picked it up yet so i dont really know its true condition.

Vintage SHANKS PATENT 'Unus Combination' TOILET on eBay (end time 02-Mar-10 13:55:20 GMT)

 

[WHPES]

Don't have any valves in at the moment. Rads are £16 per column (the larger ones) restored and painted and ready to fit. I have mainly the usual Ideal Standard 4 and 2 column ones at the moment.

As regards to your pan - I don't really do Victorian pans as they are tricky. You need to be very careful as they are glaze on top of stoneware and it is easily chipped or scratched and some modern toilet cleaners can spoil it.

I would advise you to ask on one of the specialist salvage websites. You got it for a very good price. I have seen similar for well over £100.

 

[Blackcatgas]

I love old stuff like that ,How about some pics of your handy work? .

 

[WHPES]

I have a pic somewhere of me welding up a new lead liner for an antique cistern. Will see if I can find it.

Some of the names you find on the old cisterns are great -

"Japkap"
"Hawk"
"The Thunderer"
"The Elite"
"The Ultima"
"The Dauntless"

 

[dek]

Hi, I have a japkap wooden/lead lined cistern with a brass combined ball valve/regulator screwed to the top edge of the cistern. the small washer (in the sliding brass fitting) to the ball valve needs replacing. can you supply this part or indeed a new complete valve. bear in mind it is the screwed on top of the cistern type - I am reluctant to bore a hole through the cistern and fit a more modern one. thanks in advance dek

 

[WHPES]

Maybe - Can U post a picture?

 

[southside]

Hello,

I bought a Hawk Cistern complete with Japkap parts from a farmer. I test it, and it is watertight, but the japkap is dripping down the pipe like mad, and everytime I flush, it only squirt a bit. Not a proper flush. Any ideas before I go ahead and attempt to take it to pieces.