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Bruna Ribeiro
Hi all
I live in a cottage with and upstairs and downstairs toilet in the middle of the house, both toilets have macerators which use the same pipe.
Last night for some reason (and this is where it all went wrong), I decided to take the ‘endpiece’ (offwhite coloured top bit) in the picture off to give it a clean as there were ‘poopy’ bits around it. I took it apart, cleaned it, put it all back together and you all know what happened when I used the tap don’t you, yup, a fountain of water from the pipe! Yay, don’t I feel an idiot! I’ve taken it apart again, put it back together and tried various things but no joy.
If someone could take a look at the picture and tell me what it is so I can get a replacement, I will be most grateful!
Thanks in advance
Adrian
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To be honest it looks like a cobbled together affair. When you take out the off white piece there should be a black o ring. I guess this has failed in some way. To be fair this arrangement is not meant to be as macerators are only supposed to be used with copper pipe or glued together plastic pipe (solvent weld). I guess there will be some form of adaptor from the small 21.5mm pipe below to the large white couple. Take a look at this from screwfix http://www.screwfix.com/p/straight-coupling-32mm/11632
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Hi Moopy
thanks for taking the time to reply. After replacing the part myself (and it doing exactly the same thing), I had a plumber out yesterday who said exactly the same as you, I think his words were ‘what ****ing idiot put that there’. Anyway, he’s taken it (and any push fittings) out completely and done a proper job!
thanks again
Ade
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