Toilets

Benipete said:
Sounds like a Spanish one is it a Rocca
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Nowt wrong with Rocca......Ive got one.

If the blue flush can't be inserted..use bleach.

Flush toilets are a luxury....
Haslingden 1947 ..Tippler...Takes a hell of a long time to drop.
Malaya 1958...foot pads with a hole in the ground.
Malaya 1959...multiple personnel toilets...mind you don't get your goolies trapped when the buckets are emptied without warning.
Malaya 1960....Hole in the ground...a retaining pole to swing and bite on to but ensure that one of your so called friends has not sawn through the pole first.
Church 1962....Outside toilet...100 yards from farmhouse...newspaper on a string...wood board...scrubbed every week...over a dustbin...my job to empty it every week.
Blackburn 1964....Outside toilets....bloody freezing.
Don't talk to me about toilets........You don't know your born.
Happy days. :rolleyes:
 
Never said there was anything wrong with Rocca but they are different and some designs are a pain.But as i spent a year in Benidorm mending the things i may be of some help.
 
That takes me back, Royboy, the tippler. I can remember my mum, when I was very small, instructing me to run the cold tap for a few minutes after going to the loo. :D

When we had an inside lavatory installed in the bathroom it was like the height of luxury. No more going outside (all of 6 feet from the back door) with the risk of huge spiders (my brothers always told me there would be one and it would be lurking just under the rim, waiting to jump on to my bum) and the very real peril of daddy-long-legs in August - how do you answer Nature's call while screaming and trying to swat the hideous thing with a piece of Izal loo roll? It's impossible.

My present loo is at least 20 years old and needs replacing (as does the rest of the bathroom suite). I used to use those blue things (the lid lifts off mine very easily) but now I just plonk a bit of Domestos in the pan every night. I stopped using the loo-bloos when I realised they were leaving a slimy deposit at the bottom of the cistern.
 
Royboy39 said:
Nowt wrong with Rocca......Ive got one.

If the blue flush can't be inserted..use bleach.

Flush toilets are a luxury....
Haslingden 1947 ..Tippler...Takes a hell of a long time to drop.
Malaya 1958...foot pads with a hole in the ground.
Malaya 1959...multiple personnel toilets...mind you don't get your goolies trapped when the buckets are emptied without warning.
Malaya 1960....Hole in the ground...a retaining pole to swing and bite on to but ensure that one of your so called friends has not sawn through the pole first.
Church 1962....Outside toilet...100 yards from farmhouse...newspaper on a string...wood board...scrubbed every week...over a dustbin...my job to empty it every week.
Blackburn 1964....Outside toilets....bloody freezing.
Don't talk to me about toilets........You don't know your born.
Happy days. :rolleyes:
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Sorry for asking advice from fellow accywebbers, didnt realise it would cause such offense or such an issue. I may only be young but I am well aware what its like to have to use outside toilets / buckets / holes in the ground etc. Was only asking a simple question as to whethere there was a fault with my lav or not
 
emzy said:
Sorry for asking advice from fellow accywebbers, didnt realise it would cause such offense or such an issue. I may only be young but I am well aware what its like to have to use outside toilets / buckets / holes in the ground etc. Was only asking a simple question as to whethere there was a fault with my lav or not
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No problem Love...not having a go at you in any way,shape or form.
Please don't be offended it wasn't supposed to come across like that.
 
Thought you were then,

I aint that posh, ive p'd behind a bush many a time :D but just couldnt figure this loo out. My old house had push button loo and could lift the lid on that, I just found it strange that you cant with this one, and given how "dodgy" some of the work has been done I just wanted to check before making a prat of myself ringing hyndburn homes lol
 
You just have a short flush loo or close coupled loo em, does it have 2 small half buttons to make up a full button?
 
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We have had one of these toilets fitted for the last six or seven years, and have never had any problems with it.
It is better to have the long and short flush...uses less water that way.
I don't bother with the blue loo things....I prefer my water to be the colour of water:D
 
Its short flush= No 1 and big flush= No 2. If thats what you have (which sounds like it to me) then you cant take the lid off willy nilly the internal mechanisam is connected directly to the buttons. If the buttons are sticking give it a few flushes before you call them out they can soon sort that.

You just wont be able to use the loo blu!
 
To answer your question emzy, the 2 buttons are as described by mummiboo, one is a half flush and one a full flush, the chrome coloured ring around them will unscrew and allow the lid to be lifted, it is this ring that is attached to the syphon so that it holds the buttons in place and prevents the lids from coming off, if the buttons are sticking, they are not aligned properly, have the council send the plumber back to sort it out. If it is a single button by the way, press and let go for short flush, press and hold for full flush.
 
derekgas said:
To answer your question emzy, the 2 buttons are as described by mummiboo, one is a half flush and one a full flush, the chrome coloured ring around them will unscrew and allow the lid to be lifted, it is this ring that is attached to the syphon so that it holds the buttons in place and prevents the lids from coming off, if the buttons are sticking, they are not aligned properly, have the council send the plumber back to sort it out. If it is a single button by the way, press and let go for short flush, press and hold for full flush.
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Thanks, it is 2 button (one big round one with another smaller one slightly raised within the bigger button if that makes sense). I will give it a go and see how i get on, but will ring HH to sort if problem persists. (problem last happened to babysitter when I was out a few weeks back, it wouldnt stop flushing so had to come home to sort it)
 
Sorted!! It did screw off (never thought of trying that to be honest :rolleyes:)

Thanks for your help Derekgas, most appreciated


Although this has left me wondering about my life................ if one of my main problems is how to take the lid off my toilet then I either have a very sad life or a very content one with nothing better to worry about lol :D
 
I have trouble with those push button flushes, can never seem to get the short flush to flush. I think it's my fingers. I prefer the old fashioned handle and put a brick inside to save water.
 
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