how can i stop my toilet cistern from continually filling up with water?

Purchase a cistern repair kit (about £1 or so and u will find a new nozzle,a split pin , a new nozzle washer and a new water inlet washer.Turn off the cold water main. Remove the split pin and extract the ball and arm.Remove the complete valve from the water inlet.Unscrew the valve end from the body and replace the washer.Push out the old nozzle and replace.Replace the water inlet washer.Rasssemble and use the new split pin to hold the ball and arm.That should do it.

George Bowden
November 2008

Hi,

You need to adjust the ball cock (no childish giggles please!!)...

Take the top off your cistern and you should find a lever with a plastic hollow ball near the end.

You should be able to adjust the hight that the plastic ball sits in the water by either slding it along the lever, or screwing it up or down. This in turn should lift the lever which switches the valve at the other end of the lever to the ball to the off position.

If water still dribbles through, you have a leaking valve, which can be replaced, but you will have to turn the stop cock off under you sink to do so!!

Good luck..

Lest
October 2008

Stop paying your water bill and they will do it for you...

Ha Ha
October 2008