Plumbing help

[Hardy]

I have a toilet that won't flush. I replaced a broken flush siphon and now the bowl fills up and then drains out too slowly to flush anything away. It's a fairly complicated problem that I think has to do with the flush mechanism - not a blockage or anything. If anyone thinks they can help, I'll describe it in detail. I asked a plumber about it and he hadn't a clue, at which point I realised I should have come to the gaaboard first.

Amusing responses welcome, as long as they're funny.

[ONeill]

Crap situation.

[gallsman]

Crap situation.

I was thinking along the lines of "dumping his problem on us" or something to that effect.

[Minder]

That would drive you round the u bend

[ONeill]

Stop taking the piss lads.

[wherefromref]

Your under pressure by the sound of it Hardy

[ONeill]

Well, that one didn't bowl me over.

[pintsofguinness]

I have a toilet that won't flush. I replaced a broken flush siphon and now the bowl fills up and then drains out too slowly to flush anything away. It's a fairly complicated problem that I think has to do with the flush mechanism - not a blockage or anything. If anyone thinks they can help, I'll describe it in detail. I asked a plumber about it and he hadn't a clue, at which point I realised I should have come to the gaaboard first.

Amusing responses welcome, as long as they're funny.

My advice would be to speak to a better plumber. 

[Tony Baloney]

Shit one. Crap and a bag and throw across the fence into the neighbours garden.

[mournerambler]

Sounds like you have whats called a syphonic toilet which is a fairly old flushing process & unless you replace the syphon with a proper syphonic type syphon to suit you toilet it won't flush properly, if you have the old syphon try & find a brand name on it, fitting an ordinary syphon to a syphonic toilet is a waste of time.

[Hardy]

Sounds like you have whats called a syphonic toilet which is a fairly old flushing process & unless you replace the syphon with a proper syphonic type syphon to suit you toilet it won't flush properly, if you have the old syphon try & find a brand name on it, fitting an ordinary syphon to a syphonic toilet is a waste of time.

That sounds spot on, mournerambler, based on the symptoms.

[bridge fan]

is it a close coupled toilet as in the cistern sitting on top off the bowl or is there a pipe between it if ther is the may be debri stuck in it

[Hardy]

is it a close coupled toilet as in the cistern sitting on top off the bowl or is there a pipe between it if ther is the may be debri stuck in it

Thanks bf. It's close-coupled. I'm pretty sure it's not a blockage. I think mournerambler is on the money - I expected it was something like this, from descriptions on Wiki of siphoning toilets. I just thought they were American and that it was unlikely we'd have them here, but it seems we do from what mournerambler says. Now if I can just find out where to buy the right siphon.

[anglocelt39]

There I was thinking you only typed excessive shite

[Hardy]

You must have missed my appeal for amusing responses.