Hello,
First post, be gentle! Anyway, here's my issue. I have a Roca The Gap D-Trit close-couple toilet with integrated macerator in my secondary bathroom. In all it's a great solution for a problem location for a bathroom. However, the cistern has a typical european style side inlet pipe, and has what looks like a miniscule diameter (maybe 10mm external, god knows internal, and the docs have no info on it).
My water supply is all gravity fed upstairs, and as such I don't have a tonne of pressure anyway. When trying to force it through this tiny pipe, the flow into the cistern is basically a dribble at best. It takes well over an hour to fully fill the cistern.
I've already had it apart and removed a restrictor from the inlet, which made a small improvement. My question is whether it's feasible to replace the entire inlet pipe with a wider diameter pipe? And would it make a difference if I could? I've also investigated an inline pump but I'm not convinced I even have the flow rate to trigger a pump flow switch! It's clearly designed for a much higher water pressure than a typical UK bathroom, and I really want to make this £1500 toilet work better!
First post, be gentle! Anyway, here's my issue. I have a Roca The Gap D-Trit close-couple toilet with integrated macerator in my secondary bathroom. In all it's a great solution for a problem location for a bathroom. However, the cistern has a typical european style side inlet pipe, and has what looks like a miniscule diameter (maybe 10mm external, god knows internal, and the docs have no info on it).
My water supply is all gravity fed upstairs, and as such I don't have a tonne of pressure anyway. When trying to force it through this tiny pipe, the flow into the cistern is basically a dribble at best. It takes well over an hour to fully fill the cistern.
I've already had it apart and removed a restrictor from the inlet, which made a small improvement. My question is whether it's feasible to replace the entire inlet pipe with a wider diameter pipe? And would it make a difference if I could? I've also investigated an inline pump but I'm not convinced I even have the flow rate to trigger a pump flow switch! It's clearly designed for a much higher water pressure than a typical UK bathroom, and I really want to make this £1500 toilet work better!