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Fixing a slow filling & flushing toilet turned into discovering that all our stop cocks are seized, turning the water off at the street, emptying the cold water tank, finding the faulty rubber diaphragm, finding that the local plumbing place is closed, reassembling everything, picking all the bits of rotten wood out of the bottom of the cold water tank, turning the water back on, finding that both the hot taps don't work, clearing the airlock(s) out of the hot water system wth a combination of blowing down the vent pipe at the top and sucking water out of the hot taps, finding out the cold taps don't work, finding that sucking on the taps doesn't get rid of the airlock, so I end up having to run a hosepipe through the house to backflush the airlock out into the cold tank.
What a ballache, just to shift a turd.
At least the toilet flushes a bit better now, even though it's not really fixed.
Not touching anything now - it can all be done when we get the boiler replaced with an unvented cylinder.