Minor rant, but this might help someone in the future.
Toilet cistern stopped filling saturday afternoon. Took a look inside, opened up the valve and the little rubber seal inside was perished and had split a little. 20minutes on Google suggests that the seals are available as spares, which would be easier and less messy than replacing the whole valve assembly.
Place order with screwfix and collect sunday morning.
Fit new seal, valve now doesn't shut off.
remove and refit several times. No joy.
Examine old and new seals in detail to find they're subtly different in depth. New seal isn't deep enough to bear on the feed spout to shut the flow off. Further web searches and examination of the valve shows up that it's a fluidmaster Pro 400 which is only available wholesale, seals for those (which might, or might not fit) are available from some wholesalers (not open on a sunday) and cost nearly as much as a whole valve assembly.
Back onto the web to order an entire new assembly for pickup that day. Drained cistern, mop up mess with old towels, fit new assembly (a regular fluidmaster 400UK), refill and test, happy days.
Though it turns out that the seal in the 400UK that I just fitted is slightly different again.
urgh. why can't they either use 1 part for all applications, or make a better distiction between the marketing of the different parts?
Moral of the story: a Seal to fit a fluidmaster 400 might not fit a fluidmaster 400.
Toilet cistern stopped filling saturday afternoon. Took a look inside, opened up the valve and the little rubber seal inside was perished and had split a little. 20minutes on Google suggests that the seals are available as spares, which would be easier and less messy than replacing the whole valve assembly.
Place order with screwfix and collect sunday morning.
Fit new seal, valve now doesn't shut off.
remove and refit several times. No joy.
Examine old and new seals in detail to find they're subtly different in depth. New seal isn't deep enough to bear on the feed spout to shut the flow off. Further web searches and examination of the valve shows up that it's a fluidmaster Pro 400 which is only available wholesale, seals for those (which might, or might not fit) are available from some wholesalers (not open on a sunday) and cost nearly as much as a whole valve assembly.
Back onto the web to order an entire new assembly for pickup that day. Drained cistern, mop up mess with old towels, fit new assembly (a regular fluidmaster 400UK), refill and test, happy days.
Though it turns out that the seal in the 400UK that I just fitted is slightly different again.
urgh. why can't they either use 1 part for all applications, or make a better distiction between the marketing of the different parts?
Moral of the story: a Seal to fit a fluidmaster 400 might not fit a fluidmaster 400.
