Hello and thank you for reading this post.
Does anyone have any tips for sorting out the following small problem.
In my bathroom there is a concealed toilet cistern behind a ceramic tiled section of timber board false wall. The wall's about 4 feet tall and had a flat top which I've removed to reveal the cistern below. The bathroom and the view of the cistern from above are shown in attached photos 1 and 2. There's a photo of the underside of the cistern shown in attached photo 3.
The cistern is fed by mains water from underneath via a flexible metal pipe. There is no service valve here. The flexible pipe joins directly on to the bottom of the plastic mains inlet part which is, like normal cisterns, inside the cistern then secured from underneath with a plastic nut. There is a valve but this is situated at the top outlet of the inlet part inside the cistern.
The cistern is leaking from underneath. I think the leak is from the mains inlet part where it passes through the bottom of the cistern.
Before renewing the entire unit with associated damage to tiled false wall, I'd like to first try undoing a little the plastic nut to the underside of the cistern securing the mains inlet part and apply sealant to the inside and underside of the fitting, then fasten up the nut.
(Sorry if this is a very basic problem to be writing about.)
The problems are though that at present I cannot see the plastic nut directly and so cannot get a monkey wrench on to it, and anyway there's barely enough width between the inside of the false wall and the structural wall to turn the monkey wrench.
Any tips here on how to proceed?
Thank you very much.
Does anyone have any tips for sorting out the following small problem.
In my bathroom there is a concealed toilet cistern behind a ceramic tiled section of timber board false wall. The wall's about 4 feet tall and had a flat top which I've removed to reveal the cistern below. The bathroom and the view of the cistern from above are shown in attached photos 1 and 2. There's a photo of the underside of the cistern shown in attached photo 3.
The cistern is fed by mains water from underneath via a flexible metal pipe. There is no service valve here. The flexible pipe joins directly on to the bottom of the plastic mains inlet part which is, like normal cisterns, inside the cistern then secured from underneath with a plastic nut. There is a valve but this is situated at the top outlet of the inlet part inside the cistern.
The cistern is leaking from underneath. I think the leak is from the mains inlet part where it passes through the bottom of the cistern.
Before renewing the entire unit with associated damage to tiled false wall, I'd like to first try undoing a little the plastic nut to the underside of the cistern securing the mains inlet part and apply sealant to the inside and underside of the fitting, then fasten up the nut.
(Sorry if this is a very basic problem to be writing about.)
The problems are though that at present I cannot see the plastic nut directly and so cannot get a monkey wrench on to it, and anyway there's barely enough width between the inside of the false wall and the structural wall to turn the monkey wrench.
Any tips here on how to proceed?
Thank you very much.
