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It's been brought to my attention by cat George
and also in more aggressive and angry ways my wife
that the toilet system downstairs isn't filling up.
So basically she's putting a load in it,
pressing the button and getting the flush
and nothing's coming out.
Now on this particular toilet
we've got a side entry fill valve.
This particular video is gonna work
whether you've a ball valve
or anything that goes into the side, okay.
It's really, really easy.
Now the first bit of advice I'm going to give you,
because this is a really simple video,
is when you're buying your new side entry fill valve
or any kind of fill valve for a toilet,
try (grunts)...
Try to get one with a brass shank on it, okay?
Because this makes things loads, loads easier.
As you can see, the fill valve we got here
is a small side entry one.
With a lovely little brass shank on.
It's also got a slight float reducer in there
to even the flow out.
It has a nice silent fill sleeve on there.
It also has the standard upturn cup arrangement
for it as well.
So anyway, I hope you enjoy the video.
And I hope that somehow it persuades you to subscribe.
Enjoy, hold tight!
So if we look in here,
we've got our knackered toilet
because we're actually redoing this house at the moment.
And we've got our fill valve here.
Now if you look down there, you should see
That there's not really any water in there.
That it needs
(tapping)
a little tap like that to get it going.
So this needs whip'n out.
So the first thing do is turn the water off.
So you're gonna need to know where to do that.
As soon as you got the water turned off
we're gonna slacken off this nut here
and then slack off this little nut here.
Right, so we got a nice little water softener here
so the water is switched off just on there.
Next thing you do, is we're gonna pop back to the toilet
just through here
and we're gonna go flush this loo.
Oh my God, I love this bit.
(flush)
Right, as you can see...
Again this hasn't filled up, right.
(tapping)
Okay now we've got no water going into here at all.
Even when I whack it, nothing is happening.
Right, so all we got to do now,
got the water off,
here is just get our lovely set of adjustables.
I'll try not to get in the way of the camera.
I'm sure you won't have a camera
when you come to do this.
And slack it off this feed pipe first.
As you can see the previous plumbing
really loved using pipe clips.
♫ When somebody
♫ Does a big, fat poo
♫ In your big fat loo,
♫ Oh, oh, no. ♫
So you got a little bit of water coming out.
Nothing to worry about everybody.
If you're really worried about it,
pop a little towel under there, something like that.
So now that's off there.
Inside here, you'll often find
you've got like either a little rubber washer
or a little fibre washer
or even sometimes people put PTFE in here.
But personally, I'm a big fan of the rubber washer
because they sort of tighten up and nip up really nicely.
So next we got this, this little one here,
the nut that just holds this on.
These are really easy to undo as you can see.
So there we go.
We now got that off.
And that's our old one, completely out.
Wahoo.
So we've got our nice new one here.
You have two nuts, okay?
What I try to do
is put one nut on first, obviously.
A lot of the times you've have like a little rubber washer
but they haven't supplied one with this one here.
So I'm just gonna wang it on,
like so.
And then you can put this through your hole here.
Nice and easy, look at that.
This is going so well.
I'll go nuts if I drop this nut.
Right so we've got our other nut on there.
Just gonna do that up now.
Well, it is plastic so you don't wanna go nuts
when tightening this sort of thing up.
Make sure that your valve is nice and horizontal.
Right, and then now we've got that up,
basically it's a matter of just getting this connexion
back on here.
Making sure, as well, I'm mean this is important,
you've got to get this bit right.
So we need to make sure that we get
a really good seal on here.
Often I recommend you change the seals on these
when you do this job, just in case.
Probably worth to do it on here though
because this one's got a rubber one in here already
from not long ago.
Ain't that just beautiful?
And now we've got on this little upturned cup here.
What this does is traps air in here
so when it's filling up
and the water level get and goes bop
and turns this valve off.
It doesn't actually make that noise though.
And basically we screw this on pretty much.
I've probably should've done this
before I put this back in the toilet.
But I'm so ill at the moment I can't think straight.
Right, so now we've got our water connexion
tight up on here.
We're going in to the loo there.
That's nicely tight up on there.
Our little float valve just here, ready to go.
And also we've got our lovely sheath going down
to make the water falling even quieter.
So now I'm just go back down here
and turn the water back on.
Right, so we've got the water back on.
Basically it's already filled up
and switched itself off,
a reasonably nice height actually.
Kinda the height I wanna set that at.
But if I wanted to adjust the height
I could just twiddle this little up cup here.
You'll find that most side entry ball valves
have a similar way of adjusting the height on it.
It's usually quite obvious.
Just read the instructions.
Now that's the pressure's all back up
and it all filled up
it's a good idea just to
dry off the fitting that you put in there
and just rub your finger round there
to make sure that's not leaking.
So now if I just press the button
(flushing)
I should find, there we go,
got water going in there now.
So as we get to the walls the top
we should fall into that cup,
picks up and just shuts the water off.
(water cascading)
Magic.
So there we go.
I hope that instructional video
is given you a good idea
about how to change a side entry fill valve
on your toilet.
Be it a ball valve,
one of these new fangled beasts like this
or the upturned cup type
that we've just put in there just now.
You've probably noticed that I've got a cold
if you're a stonewall viewer and subscriber.
Therefore you realise
how much hell I've just been through doing that.
Because as we all know,
men have miles worse colds than women.
I don't even know how that's good English,
but we do.
It's been proven by the people in the white coats.
Even my cat agrees, alright.
Don't you George?
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And remember everyone,
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You gonna hold tight.
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George.
George, look at the camera.
Look at the camera.
What's this?
No, look at the camera.
No, no.
No, here, here.
What's this?
(laughing)