Bob's miscellany » toilet http://bobsmiscellany.artprop.org.uk just lots of different things Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:42:01 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 Remove cistern push button http://bobsmiscellany.artprop.org.uk/2025/04/18/remove-cistern-push-button/ http://bobsmiscellany.artprop.org.uk/2025/04/18/remove-cistern-push-button/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2025 15:39:40 +0000 http://bobsmiscellany.artprop.org.uk/?p=489 In order to access the interior of a typical toilet cistern, you need to remove the push button on top, in order to remove the cistern lid. Unscrew the button ring anti-clockwise (you may need a wrench if the assembly is encrusted with limescale). The button assembly screws into the plastic flush rod inside, not into the ceramic lid.

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To replace the button, with the cistern full of water and the button depressed, screw the end of the button assembly into the corresponding hole in the flush rod. Tighten.

 

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