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Just hope for his sake it’s a 2 part else he’s decked :D
 
The post has gone now but an actual plumber said he'd put a new syphon in for £50 and they tore him a new one...
I remember one last year of someone doing outside taps for £25, absolute joke.

As in they were having a go at him for £50 being too expensive?

How on earth is anyone doing an outside tap install for £25, it costs that much just to turn up to the front door once you factor in all of your costs!

I was wandering whether it might be worth setting up a facebook page to advertise (planning to move to London at the end of the year from Birmingham for family reasons and the bulk of my word of mouth is currently back in Brum), clearly not worth wasting my time with!
 
You can do a syphon in 30 minutes? On a 20 year old toilet where the bolts are corroded?

snap them off / multi tool can get a cistern off the wall in 10 mins max

used to race in granted works whole bathroom stripped in an 30 mins to an hour not breaking anything
 
I usually only charge about £30 - £40 for fixing close coupled toilets faulty siphons. I try to replace the siphon washer if possible.
Some can be fixed within an hour.
But it isn’t enough money.
 
I usually charge around £60 in Brum for a syphon replacement (£80-£90 when down in London) and unless its really tiny toilet cut rusted wingnuts off with the angle grinder.
 
Nice! Do they work as well as they do in the video? Reminds me of the old fashioned profile/contour guages, used to be fascinated by my grandads one, inherrited all of his tools and I still carry it around despite pretty much never using it. I like tools way too much, the missus' eyes glaze over the minute the topic comes up :D

They do work Won’t toque down a bolt but will do medium to light things cheap enough to replace once a year tho
 

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