Running Toilet Repair in Sydney

Most often the rubber seal on the outlet valve has hardened and no longer sits flat, so water creeps into the pan and the inlet keeps topping up. The other common cause is an inlet valve that doesn't shut off, sending water down the overflow. The water level in the cistern tells us which.

More than most people picture. Sydney Water says a constantly running toilet can lose thousands of litres a day, and you usually only find out when the quarterly bill arrives. The part that stops it is small by comparison.

It won't flood the bathroom, because the overflow sends the surplus into the pan. It will keep wasting water, so turn the isolating tap off between uses: back on to refill after a flush, then off again.

One half of the button isn't letting the outlet valve drop fully, usually because a rod or cable has shifted or the button was refitted a little out of line. It's an adjustment or a new linkage, not a whole new cistern.

Usually. Inlet valves, outlet valves and seals for common cisterns are on the truck. If yours is an older or unusual model, we isolate it so it stops running and come back with the right part.

That's sometimes called ghost flushing. Water is leaking slowly out through the outlet seal, and every so often the inlet valve tops the cistern back up. The fix is on the outlet side, not the inlet.