The chrome fixture needs to be twisted apart and each side sides either side of the lid and is screwed on. I give this 3 stars because I bought one in October 2019 (as the one that came installed with our bathroom about 5 years previously had broken - plunger mechanism was jamming so water was continually flushing into the bowl) but it has only lasted until August 2021 - with the same problem. The valve is suitable for retro-fit, new installations and high traffic areas and can be used with concealed, close coupled and low level cisterns. And when it comes to turning the whole body of the valve, I said anti-clockwise - but looking at your pictures it could be clockwise.

I usually use flexi hose with an iso valve and put the end of the hose with the washer onto the cistern fitting. When I came to take off the Macdee AFV40100 flush valve (which I thought separated at the top not the bottom, took me a while to figure that out! I can't imagine the bolt is threaded into the bowl directly though - is there a plastic fitting glued to the base unit perhaps? To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I then sprayed a load of WD40 onto the guide rails and the pully mechanism and then pulled on the cable repeatidly to get the WD40 to move around and do its buisness.Be sure you note disassembly positions so its easy to get back together, bit of oil (3 in 1 is better than WD in my opinion) down this end of cable. A dual flush, cable operated Macdee Dump valve that can fit in existing Macdee brackets as well as fit cisterns with a 1. somhairle wrote:The cistern top simply lifts off but the attached hose prevents it from being set aside. It was a direct swap, no need to dismantle the cistern just twist out the old body and fit the new one. It wasn't clear to me if I could simply remove the top half of the old cistern valve, and replace it with this new one so I took the plunge (pun intended).

New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging . Remove the cable connection from the valve, you usually need to press a bar on the side of the mechanism. Derwent Macdee offers an extensive choice of concealed and exposed cisterns with dual or single flush, siphons, and valves. When I leave in the morning the cistern is at the max fill (6L) marker, however when I get home it's sat at the minimum marker (4. Unfortunately some moron has completely blocked in the back of the toilet (as it looks good, until something goes wrong.

which looked to have identical fittings, could I replace just the valve that I removed with another version (rather than the base as well, as if that needed replacing I wouldn't bother), are the bases on them a universal fit? there are indeed two bolts - but as you'll see on the other photos, there is no access to the other side of them. When you say the big white bit is that the top of the tube closest to me that the blue tube goes in to? The cable-controlled flush valve can be easily fitted either to the top or the front of the cistern and is suitable for cisterns from 300 mm to 420 mm.