How to remove toilet cistern lid - Dual flush buttons 

Thank you straightforward simple and visual unlike other, mines been leaking water for ages and I didn’t know how too get the lid off, next fitting a new bath 😂

Man, People like you make INTERNET boon❤️❤️

Omg, you’re a Superstar!! I was actually scratching my head at this thinking I’d have to call in a plumber to fix my toilet. But I managed to do it myself following this ❤️thanks mate!

GOOD JOB DUDE.🎉🎉🎉

Thanks for sharing the video, Bill. 👍👍👍

Struggled for ages to find out how to remove this as it's different to others in our house. You legend, it was soo easy!

Brilliant thanks. 20 years ago my dad would have to call out a plumber to sort a simple job like this. Now thanks to RU-vid we can do these simple fixes by ourselves 👍🏻

Clear instructions Bill, thank you. Unlike so many other videos that just spend time waffling. Excellent tutorial.

I don't believe it! I have actually mended the flush on my toilet looking at your video. As a very recently widowed lady that means a whole lot to me!! Thank you sooo much. Xxx

one video away from using sledgehammer ... thanks

thank you thank you thank you. after ten years of not being able to remove the lid, i'm finally selling the house and i can finally blue the loo!!! yoohoo.

Great instructional video, short, clear to understand with no waffle, no pointless music and good closeups so we can see what is going on. Btw i tried it and it worked. Bravo and Thank you!

Bro you save my 1000 Rs thank you love you 😘

You're a legend. I was starting to really lose my shirt trying to get this thing apart.

I'm so pleased you did this. Been wanting to know how to do this for ages. Thank you x

Absolute legend mate. I had 3 ppl come to my place and quoted me from $700 to $3500 to fix the issue i had with the buttons. I was able to do it myself after watching your video and it only costed me $20. Keep up the good work :)

Very good. No swearing required. Well done. It worked. Thanks.

thanks a lot for your help, just fixed my toilet on Christmas Eve!!!

Mine had that screw but there's no slot in the head. It's just smooth 😭 EDIT. On mine the buttons come out, then you unscrew the whole silver bezel, instead of a little screw in the centre. Why don't they just make all the mechanisms the same?!?

perfect!!!! worked like a charm! :) finally.....my blue thingy made it into the tank! I am so very pleased. thank you very much! you are totally brilliant! :)

Great thanks. I was about to call plumber to fix my cistern but I could fix it with your video. 🥳🥳

thanks, should know better than to spend hours thinking how to do stuff when the answers here all the bloody time :)

Thanks,MR,Billshowto your a Geniuse!

Nice one. Invaluable info. Much appreciated

Yeah totally agree with Tatenda bloody marvelious now very happy.

I once used brute force to open one of these type of lids, as I didn´t know some of them were locked. This video was really helpful :D

I knew someone on RU-vid would explain how these come apart. Thank you for being that guy!

Thankyou it worked. I wanted to put the harpic matic. Thanku sir

Thank you!!! I would never have guessed that

OMG, you are amazing, thanks for the tip.

Moc děkuji, nerozumím sice ani slovo, ale jen díky vám jsem si opravila záchod a už zase po dvou dnech splachuje. Žiju sama a vy jste mě zachránil😊 , Děkuji a dávám odběr, budu vás sledovat, určitě se ještě přiučím 👍

Whoever designed this system was a bit of a prick.

Hahah thanks man. I was like wtf this lids not coming up

Thanks Bill, you’re a lifesaver 😎

My Cistern top looks identical but has no screw to remove the top ferule, I don't want to force it up with a couple of screwdrivers as I know that I will break something.

Dude you've saved my life! I didn't know how to turn and fix a pressed flush on the toilet. Love you and thank you!

Great tip, tgsnk you very much

Thank you for showing how to put it back again!

Great video got me outta the shit so to speak 😛😛😛😛😛😛

Thanks Brother

i was just about to break mine. good stuff

Thank you very much for this, I was trying to unscrew the whole mechanism by hand, but obvuously that did not work. All I need to know now is how to increase the water flow into the cistern as mine is taking ages to fill the cistern!

Thanks a lot,,.... It's helpful info

You bloody legend! Thank you.

Thx for video. I have been trying to pull the lid out without any luck. Glad that I saw this video. Now I know! I wonder why they made these lids child prooof, I used to put this blue tablets inside cistern and had a clean toilet, now I need to hang one of those in the pot and I don't like the look of it.. Can't be unscrewing everytime to put the blue tablet 😕

I have a rectangle push button and I can't open it the way he did. There's a spring that I can see while I lift the push button

Thank you I was about to hulk the lid off and probably break the toilet. But I followed your video and it was easy.👍

thank you so much.. you help me a lot from your tuturial. God bless you always.

Excellent explanation. Thank you so much.

Clear and precise video. But I just wanted to mainly comment on such a poor design. I've always believed this design should becone obsolete as it makes it very difficult for many people (who wouldn't be able to do this) to access to their toilet cistern which should usually be a simple step of merely lifting the lid

Thanx pall! I was wondering alsoo how to remove lid and I have only one button. But when I see your video I was understand that it must be some kind of thread. And i succeed to unscrew the thread. Thanx a lot for giving me an idea how to fix it. High five 🙏🙏🙏 pall.

Huge thanks!! I was searching for the right way to remove this kind of lid. And it's been a month since have had this problem 😂 big help!!

Thanks so much!It was a mystery to me until now 😉😉😉

Thank you so much for showing ushow to do it.More power to you keep up the good work

Superstar !! Thank you so much!

Thanks boss, once you know, you know. Now I know!

You saved me from calling the landlord and looking like a morron :D My parent's toilets were the easy to open kind I didnt imagine there would be two kinds

Thanks.

Very useful.

Thank you SO much for this gem of a How-to video. I have one of the buttons and they seemed to drop... couldn't figure out how to remove the unit. Thought I was going to have to revert to a sledgehammer and a new toilet. You are a superstar...thanks to your video I was able to fix it, with a (lot of) help from my missus. Cheers! 😊

Thank you so much! I have been nearly destroying my lid to try to figure it out and because it isn't brand new I couldn't look up the instructions that came with it

sure is easy once you know😄cheers m8

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Brilliant!! Thank you 😃👍

Your a legend 👏👏👏. Thank you for sharing. I was trying to work it for almost 3 hours, then I just gave up. A million thanks. 👏👏😊😊👏👏

THANK YOU!!! I was trying to rip it off this whole time😂

As they see is easy when you know how… I have no clue been struggling with this for a month lol thank you good sir👍🏻

Thanks! Easy when you know how eh?

Thanks from India!

Thankyou so much I was being very lazy to call plumber for over a week for this small task. Now it's done, so easy it was.

thanks its videos like this that i love

Great ....soo helpful video

Life saver. I was just about to bust the top off. 😂 Thanks you 👍👍👍

Thanks mate, you just stopped me from ruining my Dunny!!

Brilliant!!! I wanted to put a toilet sanitiser in the cistern but couldn't lift it to open. I thought I wasted my money but now I know what to do. Thank you, much appreciated, 😊 ☀️

Glad I found this. I just moved to a house with a double flush toilet and was looking up what the purpose of a double flush was. I learned that and then I just happen to find this video👍

I would have bought a new toilet before figuring this out. Thank you!!

Wow 👌 thank you so much huge life saver 🙌 thanks matey from New Zealand 🇳🇿

Hey Bill, can you do a video on how to safely remove big trees and spiky plants (like prickly pear) from the garden? Cheers mate!

This is the reason i always buy a side flush cistern. Far easier

Brilliant video. Removed lid, fixed lazy valve, replaced lid, in less time than it took to watch the video. No mucking around!

What would I do without RU-vid?! Thanks for a great vid, helped me fix a running cistern

Glad I caught your vid before I ever take the lid off. Not knowing this devilish little secret would've ended with me smashing up the entire bog. Possibly the bathroom with it, so many thanks !

Dammit... I can't put mine together. The buttons suddenly stopped working, but everything looks fine. So I'm thinking it just slipped out of its track. But here's the problem, mine doesn't have two separate rods going down, but two halves of a rod 😮One half for each button. And the rods have grooves that align with grooves inside the buttons. So with the buttons out, I can still push the rod(s) down to flush 🙃 Since they are stuck in the lover part of the assembly. And I can't find any producer or any similar toilet online 🙄 Feel stupid for having to buy a new toilet just because I can't get the buttons back in place 😂

Thank you for your video. The buttons had stopped working on my toilet cistern and I managed to fix them with the help of your video. Many thanks!!!

Thankyou :) I fiddled around trying to get the damn lid off but this how-to made it easy.

Thanks 🎉 it's useful 🎉

Absolute legend mate. Thank you!!!!!!

You’re a fkn legend 👍

Always clear and helpful advice from Bill. You've got me out of heaps of difficulties. Keep up the good work.

Love your work Bill. Thank you! I can fix mine now!!!

Fantastic!! My fiancée has one of these and hasn’t been able to remove the lid. Sorted.

The modern flush toilet systems are so complicated nowadays! I accidentally yanked the lid up so hard, the whole flush sticks were pulled out together...Now i need to figure out if anything got damaged... :(

Ghank you for this. Was scratching my head.

Even screamed "open sesame" at mine. Thank you.

Thanks for your help, it is pain in the arse toilet, no need to design so completed.

❤ #Straight to the point#

Brilliant, I have been trying to figure that out for months well done, great detailed instructions.

Thank you! too easy

Thank you for the great video, one small thing i might have missed but would like to add for everyone else if i didn't, the button unit is one directional, if you are having problems trying to screw it back on turn the holder for the buttons 180 degrees and it should sit better.