Wrong forum I expect. Can't find DIY forum. My toilet cistern water level is low due, I suspect to gunge in the water level valve. I don't know what they call it now. It used to be the ball valve and simple to repair. Is there a way to flush the valve out to remove the gunge without removing the valve. At 91 and well past my Best Before date, getting under the cistern to remove the valve is a no, no. It galls me as I used to be able to do all those maintenance jobs. Ah well.

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17 hours ago, Gandtee said:

Wrong forum I expect. Can't find DIY forum. My toilet cistern water level is low due, I suspect to gunge in the water level valve. I don't know what they call it now. It used to be the ball valve and simple to repair. Is there a way to flush the valve out to remove the gunge without removing the valve. At 91 and well past my Best Before date, getting under the cistern to remove the valve is a no, no. It galls me as I used to be able to do all those maintenance jobs. Ah well.

Probably depends on your cistern and the type of flushing/filling mechanism.

However I recently cleaned one of mine out by emptying (having turned off the inlet valve) and then using a wet and dry to suck out all the crap and then spraying around all the fitments with the bum gun and sucking that out. Amazing how many little bits of grit were stuck under the mechanism. 

That may or may not help.

 

Can you send a photo?....people might be able to help then.

My first job is to clean the mud out. Every time our water supplier, who shall be nameless, shuts the water off to mend one of their pipes, we get muddy water.

My water supply is fed into ongs and most of the sludge sinks to the bottom. That is then fed into water filters.

 

I have 2 x 5 micron water filters in series  before the water pump. #1 filter I have to replace once a month as it gets clogged up with dirt and crap and #2 filter I have to replace every 3 months. Still both filters allow crap smaller than 5 microns to pass and I end up scrubbing that crap out once a week.

 

I know when the filters need replacing as I made a small spreadsheet up, plus of course when both filters get really clogged up the water pressure drops and I can hear the pump straining as well.

 

It is too dark now to take photos but I will try to do it later this week and post them on this thread.

A gunked up valve should fill slowly or not at all, but should fill to the correct level unless leaking. 

 

Make sure the float moves up and down freely, rinse the tank out and try again. 

The blue plastic bit is the float valve  and you can adjust the water switch off height with the  white bit of plastic with the  + screwdriver indent on it....if you have not adjusted the height then its likely that some grit,sand or sluge is preventing the float from reaching full height  so give it a good blast with the bum gun..if no improvement then there can also be gunge in the actual valve  which resides under the blue plastic snap on cap  be careful there though as there are some fiddly small plastic bits that can get lost or broken...

as a last resort  you could just keep a large bucket with water  in the bathroom/toilet and manually throw a couple of bowls of water down the pan  instead of flushing.