For anyone with a very slow leak into the toilet bowl with a Novelli cistern, check the washers in both halves of the inlet valve when it's apart (as shown in this video). Mine just had a couple tiny flakes of PVC preventing it from sealing properly. Even when it's a very tight fit in the right side of the cistern, first remove the flush valve by turning the main body a couple clicks and pulling it up, that way you can hold the base of the inlet valve to remove it, there's just enough room.

This is how videos should be done! Simple clear explanations without annoying background music. Thank you.

Wher can I buy

am in Canada. Thank you for this video and your time. Just found your video. Have a dual button cylindrical flush valve of unknown age where the plunger frequently stays in the up position. The valve doesn't want to twist to be pulled out. It is in a one-piece toilet so I'm sure it can be removed from the seat bottom part. But I don't want to force the issue 'cause afraid something plastic might break. Wanted to remove and look at valve all around to see if can deduce why the plunger frequently stays in the up position, how to make adjustments, and to determine the manufacturer/model. I can't find the exact same looking valve online, on sale or in videos, so I can not find out how to make adjustments, while installed. It's in a WaterRidge one-piece toilet of unknown age, with no model # to be seen. The valve may have been changed out, because the fill valve is a FloatMaster400, not a WaterRidge valve. My valve looks similar the Caroma flush-valve 4900 with the blue and yellow buttons, and a blue external float on a rod. The Caroma has a blue rod and a way to adjust the float's height, while mine has a yellow rod but not the Caroma's adjustment. (I presume there must be some way to adjust. the float height.) This got to be more words than I originally intended.

Super helpful, thank you Richard! I see the mechanism is quite strong can indeed handle some wiggling to get it back into place.

Wow thank you

Hi Richard. Yes I've watched it. The top piece appears broken despite changing the washer, so was wondering if only that piece can be replaced instead of the entire inlet valve. If so, where can I buy one?

Hi. Sorry i posted my question under replies 😂 could you have a look at what i wrote please

this video help me a lot，thank you very much

Waste of time, it is not a install

Replaced it - very easy - Thanks

Hi Richard, great video but where can I get the washer replacements. Bunnings don’t have them. Who makes the product? Thank you

Thank you Richard

FYI These Bestter valves are repackaged and sold in Bunnings as Kinetic Bottom Entry Inlet Valve

Which toilet brands can this be used for?

Great work, mate. Very helpful.

Thank you! You saved me!

Amazing video, was much helpful and saved me $ 😊 If I may suggest..... If the valve is being accessed whilst installed in the Cistern; the first step would be to extend the height (i.e. the last tip in your video) this will give one more room to dis-mantle the valve. Once re-assembled, the height can thereafter be adjusted to ones preference. Thanks once again👍

Thanks but what does the red 3 position switch do ?

Thank you so much for explaining the mechanism. I couldn't get hold of a plumber and Christmas visitors are arriving within 2 days. After struggling for hours, I watched your video and I finally realised that the locking mechanism at the top was out of alignment. You are a life-saver. Merry Christmas!

Really informative. Thank you.

Caroma products are junk

Thanks

Clear and to the point, thank you

Thanks Richard! our toilet won't flush. when i press the button i dont really feel the button being pressed. i opened up the cistern pulled the valve out and the button mechanism seems to press fine but when reinstall it and water feels up - the button again feels like its not being pressed. any recommendations pls? thanks!

Just watched this video as I need to replace just the 2 buttons on the top (moon and sun). But your video does not allow for fitting the cistern top back on as the lip of the metal column is too big to go through the hole in the cistern lid!. I will have to do it through the hole in the top of the cistern lid.

You're kidding right??!! I wonder where this cheap piece of confusing junk was made? Thank you for your patience in trying to demonstrate, but this is ridiculously tedious.

Very helpful 🙏

what does the red switch with 1, 2, 3 do?

You can do the step with pushing in the peg and twisting the top part anticlockwise first, which let's you remove it and have more space to do the steps before that. I was struggling for a few minutes before I realised I could do that first and not have to fiddle with screwdrivers in the cistern.

Perfect. Saved us from hiring plumber and ordering parts

Thank you for the video. Here in Melbourne, dad flushed the toilet and the water kept flowing into the toilet. Looked into and for unknown to me reason the plastic cover/cap/stopper which holds the rubber valve at the bottom of the piston has disappeared. looks like it flushed into the pipe somehow... No idea how it could break. So I need to buy the parts for the bottom of the piston. I am guessing parts like that can't be easily found.

1000 thankyou s mate.

What do you do if it's not a split cistern.. How do you take the cistern off? My imperial toilet doesn't have accessible wingnuts like that?!

Thank you for having the intelligence to demonstrate how the mechnism works before putting it into a cistern. This really helped.

Hi i need one of these with the bridge. Do they come with the bridge. Matt

Gracias, funciona tu truco

Thanks Richard, I removed the gray pin then I try to twist for height adjustment, but it cannot twist. how can I adjust the height then?

Where can I buy a tapered nipple or even better an elbow being tapered one end and parallel on the other to fit a speedfit installation? Many thanks for and help in advance :-)

Crucial part is avoiding breaking plastic when twisting and locating small lugs accurately. All covered clearly...thanks (My plumber damaged the originals. Maybe he should have watched your vid!)

Thanks Richard. Just what I was looking for.... one of my cistern seals has squashed down just enough for it to briefly overflow before shutting off. I dropped the level a tad, we'll get a bit mor life out of it now.

How to I increase water level while it's all attached in the cistern as I can't get it to turn

Thanks for the video i had some sediment block the hole and was able to unblock by using your video

Managed to buy new clear seal bottom of rica Dama flush. Everything went well. Buttons flush when fitted as before. BUT pushing flys button it jerks up and stops flush I now have to hold down til finished flushing. White pegs are as before. I’m stumped to what would be causing this. Before you pushed button down and walked away and it flushed and filled up with water … buttons not working properly? Any ideas please. Thanks.

This is the second one for the basement bat. kzbin.infoUgkxOuLt8IL_GxhhaK8DBuKEL-zV0UJVpWZn , works great

Steve, helpful video. I used this to help clear something preventing the valve from shutting. But now the one of the lifters is sticking. Any thoughts on this?

Thanks a lot for making this video. It really helped me.

Thanks for this informative video. However, as a plumber I HATE all push-button siphons. They are ridiculously over-complicated and the whole thing looks like the Starship Enterprise. What's more, even though the stupid things are supposed to save water by having dual flushes, they will almost always leak once the flap valve gets scaled up. That's why, all over the world these bloody things will be wasting water 24/7 as the water they let by slowly trickles down the pan.

thank you - your clear explanation of whats happening and how to do it really helped me.

If the toilet is overflowing into the toilet bowl, which part needs replacement?