Quite difficult to get a triangle tensioned right! (It's not.)
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Friday, July 26, 2019
Shadesails
There was a time that I would not dream of drilling holes in the walls of the house. That time is over. Put two big hooks high up the walls in the corners to put up shadesails. Priorities, eh.
Quite difficult to get a triangle tensioned right! (It's not.)
Quite difficult to get a triangle tensioned right! (It's not.)
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
WC float
Another thing that's been irritating for years: an intermittently not entirely closing wc float valve.
When you've woken up, bathroom, pee, flush, wash hands, back to bed, and... psssssh! drip!
pssssh! drip!
drip!
drip! drip!
*groan* Out of bed, fiddle flush button, back to bed. *grumble*
Our friendly neighbour told us once that in these cases there usually is a piece of grit or a small stone, or something in the little valve mechanism. Just take it apart, clean, and it's fixed. That's been true a few times. (Thanks, Joseph Knapp!)
Replaced the gasket of the flush valve some time ago, which temporarily fixed it.
But still, at times it would still continue dripping. And, the stop-mechanism didn't work properly anymore. And now it had returned once again.
But, as this is an Ansteystyle installed loo, there were some problems. The tap that connects the wc to the water pipe does not close off entirely. And, as the nuts on the flexible hose were a bit rusted they could not be turned, so I could not disconnect the loo valve. Well, I could, but only by first taking the plastic float valve apart inside the cistern, so I could turn the plastic bit to screw it out of the flexible hose's nut. Meanwhile water would spray from the flexible hose. In Dutch we call that a "water ballet".
Indeed, also this time there was a little bit of rubbish in the mechanism. But when I reinstalled the valve, a bit of (old) plastic broke off, water kept spraying, engineer Jansen kept on cursing, took pictures of the offending interior of the cistern, and went off to the Almacen del Installador for new plastic bits. And a new flexible hose with turnable bolts.
Reinstalled all in less than 10 minutes. All fixed, and we now have a working stop button!
Woke up yesterday night. *drip!* .... *drip!*
But, those were crickets or some insect, outside, making exactly that sound.
When you've woken up, bathroom, pee, flush, wash hands, back to bed, and... psssssh! drip!
pssssh! drip!
drip!
drip! drip!
*groan* Out of bed, fiddle flush button, back to bed. *grumble*
Our friendly neighbour told us once that in these cases there usually is a piece of grit or a small stone, or something in the little valve mechanism. Just take it apart, clean, and it's fixed. That's been true a few times. (Thanks, Joseph Knapp!)
Replaced the gasket of the flush valve some time ago, which temporarily fixed it.
But still, at times it would still continue dripping. And, the stop-mechanism didn't work properly anymore. And now it had returned once again.
But, as this is an Ansteystyle installed loo, there were some problems. The tap that connects the wc to the water pipe does not close off entirely. And, as the nuts on the flexible hose were a bit rusted they could not be turned, so I could not disconnect the loo valve. Well, I could, but only by first taking the plastic float valve apart inside the cistern, so I could turn the plastic bit to screw it out of the flexible hose's nut. Meanwhile water would spray from the flexible hose. In Dutch we call that a "water ballet".
Indeed, also this time there was a little bit of rubbish in the mechanism. But when I reinstalled the valve, a bit of (old) plastic broke off, water kept spraying, engineer Jansen kept on cursing, took pictures of the offending interior of the cistern, and went off to the Almacen del Installador for new plastic bits. And a new flexible hose with turnable bolts.
Reinstalled all in less than 10 minutes. All fixed, and we now have a working stop button!
Woke up yesterday night. *drip!* .... *drip!*
But, those were crickets or some insect, outside, making exactly that sound.
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