Bluddy love this site, thankyou. Have a problem with toilet cistern - the siphon*(?) continually drips. Have fiddled about with it in a girly way (ahem) but it's still doing it. Advice anyone please?

*the bit of kit from which the water flows when loo is flushed

do you mean the flush pipe ? thats a white pipe from the cistern to the pan , there are 2 joints on it, a nut and cone seal the top and the bottom is a flush cone, its self sealing (or should be )
if its the top, undo nut wrap some ptfe tape round and redo,
if its the bottom, undo the top, and pull out the bottom, get a new flush cone from B+Q/screwfix/toolstation, they're only pence, and refit, ptfe the top and try that,

ooh eck, I was afraid of this, to say I'm not technical is an understatement. However, google to the rescue, as follows - sorry it's so long! According to this diagram, I'm referring to the inlet tube.
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=toilet+c ... tCQ&zoom=1

ha ha , I see, in that case its the ballvalve, either rewasher or buy a new ballvalve, simple job for a plumber, but things can go wrong for the unsuspecting, if you cross the thread on the plastic inlet, you might wished you never started it,

good luck though

So go on then, tomplum, how do I change the washer?

first i need to know what type/make it is, can you give a link to the same valve, or post a picture,

Tks tomplum - can't believe i've just spent 10 minutes attempting to google pictures of the inside of my toilet cistern - to no avail unfortunately! It's a Twyfords, circa 1994. I can post a picture tomorrow if that would help.

ok sue, meanwhile have a look here, is your among this lot ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSNbiOgbgX8

you're link doest work from my end sue,

[img]file:///http://twyfords.JPG[/img]

hah managed it in the end, tom, a thing of beauty is it not. So it's the blue bit, top right, complete with drop of water leaking out of it!

ah you see that white knurled nut near the blue spout, first turn the water off, undo that knurled nut there is a washer inside ( diaphram) B+Q sell um for about a quid, replace it and that should fettle it,

Thanks so much Tom, if I manage this thanks to your help I shall be very proud of myself and grateful to you. Off to B&Q tomorrow. Watch this space...

... and I love 'fettle' by the way