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[skyblue]

Over the next few days I will be re-tileing our bathroom. I want to get all the tiles behind the sink and toilet but just need to check that  the cistern can be  slightly moved forward without moving the pan aswell.  Its one of those Close Coupled Cistern
types and I dont know how they go together  hence the question before I go steaming in    Plus how do you take the top em too

[Richie London]

if its just screwed to floorboards just take them out and move it away an inch. that's all i do when i tile. make sure you have a bit of play with the water feed. tile then push back and refix.

[Richie London]

with file and adhesive its usually about 15mm you need

[skyblue]

  Cheers Richie... I was hopeing not to even touch the bottom section and was hopefull that where you join the two parts  together that there is enough play to only move the cistern forwatd a  bit without moving the  bowl aswell  ( if that makes sense )

[PhilRich]

As Richie says, as long as the pan & cistern isn't pulled too far forward you should still get a good watertight seal on the soil connector. The cistern & pan are joined by 2 bolts usually with plastic locknuts these days but metal wingnuts on earlier fixings & the cistern can only be moved very slightly out of it's proper position or else the rubber/foam 'doughnut' washer deforms & allows the flush water to leak between the cistern & pan! HTH

[millwall]

blue dont try and just move the top half  as handsome richie said move the whole lot  very easy to do  if you just try moving the top half it could be a pain to get the donut (foam washer) to line back up and it will leak   and a leaking carsy is not good

[Big_Al]

Don't want to throw a spanner in the works but  . .  be careful that you are working on a timber floor.  If on a solid floor the pans are more likely to be set in sand & cement or "jetcem".  Trying to release the pan from this cement joint usually results in the pan cracking or breaking 

If it's upstairs in a house , probably timber floor though.

[Richie London]

blue dont try and just move the top half  as handsome richie said move the whole lot  very easy to do  if you just try moving the top half it could be a pain to get the donut (foam washer) to line back up and it will leak   and a leaking carsy is not good

thank you for them kind words 

[skyblue]

Thanks all  Still very nervous about moving the pan aswell ( god I hate plumbing jobs ). Seem to remember the dodge and  bodge crew having a few problems while fitting the pan hence why I dont wanna touch the pan incase I well and truely muck it up  Ive found the bolts Phil was on about but need to move a few things out so I can see a little clearer  as to whats  going on. More updates tomorrow folks 

[skyblue]

blue dont try and just move the top half  as handsome richie said move the whole lot  very easy to do  if you just try moving the top half it could be a pain to get the donut (foam washer) to line back up and it will leak   and a leaking carsy is not good

thank you for them kind words 

 Dont worry Rich... my shower play his shower very soon  so revenge is always sweet 

[millwall]

blue dont try and just move the top half  as handsome richie said move the whole lot  very easy to do  if you just try moving the top half it could be a pain to get the donut (foam washer) to line back up and it will leak   and a leaking carsy is not good

thank you for them kind words 

 Dont worry Rich... my shower play his shower very soon  so revenge is always sweet 

and going on our performance lately  should be a easy win for you

[Richie London]

can be as bas as my team QPR