Hello everyone it's 'Lurgs' here welcome to my channel and today how to replace the
cistern lever on your toilet, so as you can see my cistern lever is broken and
I'll show you that in a minute. I've got a brand new one here to fit, right
let's get cracking. This is my new cistern lever handle here which we're going to
fit, what you're going to need is you're going to need a spanner, if you haven't
got a spanner big enough then just use an adjustable spanner, and you might need
a pair of pliers and you're definitely going to need a screwdriver, okay so this
is my current cistern lever handle and as you can see it is broken, so let's just
take the lid off and I'll just show you why it's broken, as you can see it is all
rusted and the mechanism is just no good, so I'll show you I'll just try and twist
it around. There is a link above now about how to clean the inside of your
thermos flask the easy way. We need to get this off well, there's no chance of
getting this screw undone because it is rusty as anything, but first of all I'm
just gonna put the spanner on this nut here and just loosen it off, once it's
loosened you can just do with your fingers so just take that all the way
off the thread, now just speed this up and there's a link above now about how
to remove a cistern lid on a dual push-button toilet. As you can see that
that is completely rotten so I'm just going to get the pliers on here and just
use a bit of brute force and just twist it until it breaks, there's no way of
getting that off any other way, now just get a big flat bladed screwdriver just
stick it in there and twist it just to try and get the rest off,
and there we go that is definitely off.
Well let's get that off the hook the only thing that's in good condition is
that metal hook there which pulls the flush mechanism, so that can go in the
bin and we just need to remove the handle, there is a link above now about
how to set the pin time clock on your combi boiler, and I'm just going to keep
this rubber washer because incredibly the new lever did not come with a washer.
It doesn't really need one but I'm gonna put it on anyway, so let's take out
the brand new flush lever nice chrome one and there's the mechanism for inside
the toilet, and I'm just gonna gently put this screw into one of those holes,
locking holes basically just so I don't lose the screw, right let's get this
fitted okay just give this a quick clean on the outside and the inside, there is a
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by using a multimeter. Okay that's all done, now remove that plastic nut just
slide that off now put the new flush lever through that hole,
now I'm just going to put the rubber washer on here, I mean you don't really
need it because the water is never ever going to come up this high because I've
got an overflow pipe on my toilet, it will never ever get up that high but
let's put the plastic nut on, now just start screwing that up I'm only going to
do this up moderately tightly and I'll just tighten that up at the end, just
remember to do that,, right so there we go so now take the plastic unit with the
holes in it which is the mechanism for flushing the toilet, I'm just going to
clip it into the end hole and just slide it onto that mechanism there on the
first hole in and it looks like that it's not going to fit properly, so then
I'm going to try and hook it over the second hole in because that is
definitely not going to fit, they've got lots of different holes
to fit all types of different toilets. I've got it on the second hole now in
the end and that's not going to work though because it is bashing against the
flushing mechanism.
So we need to remove that and make it a bit smaller so I'm
just going to cut the end off so we want it to go in that second hole there, I'm
just gonna cut a centimeter off the end leaving that second hole, there is a link
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we go right let's go and try this now, so we're back in the bathroom just clip
that over there into the hook slide it onto the handle mechanism while you're
doing this make sure that the handle is in the correct position, which is
obviously going to be some kind of horizontal position, and I'm using the
second one in from the right now I'm not going to tighten that screw up on the
top just yet, just want to make sure it's all going to
work properly, that's good it's clearing the flushing mechanism, now what you want
to make sure is that the hole that you've hooked it into is directly above
the flushing mechanism so that it pulls up a nice straight even flush, there we
go just line it up from the top so you're looking straight down and it
should be pulling it straight up when you flush it, once you're happy with that
you can just tighten this screw up which is very crude it just screws up onto
that metal lever just to hold it in place, just check that's tight which it is, now
we're going to tighten up this plastic nut, now don't go crazy on this plastic
nut you can just hand tighten it if you want to but do it up as tight as you can
with your fingers and then just tighten it up a little bit with your spanner, I
mean don't go mad on this I'll show you here I'm just really using the weight of
the spanner on it, not putting any force into this because
obviously it's a plastic thread and you'll damage it if you over tighten
that. Okay so that's tight enough,
absolutely superb we've got a good flush.
Let's put the lid back on, it's important you flush the toilet again with the lid
back on just to make sure that the mechanism doesn't hit the lid and stop
it flushing, which it doesn't. And now if I could just have a little bit of
privacy please just to test it completely! And of course I'm not going
to really do that, what I really need now is a lovely cup of tea oh, and after all
that hard work it's time for a lovely cup of tea. If you would like to
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