You'll have to practice some sphincter modulation, with intermediate flushes.
Low flush toilets?? Research??
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There is no stopping me!
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I haven't found a US motel or hotel toilet I won't clog. I've done it more often than I care to remember, and it's been the biggest burden on the relationship with my better half. We have gone on road trips, and I would clog the throne, and almost as often flood the bathroom, every night in another motel. I've left a trail of clogged toilets and flooded bathrooms throughout the US!
The worst incident occurred in August 1998 in a Scottish Inn during a trip across Florida. I flushed that puny hobbit toilet, which promptly failed to properly take care of the workload. Somehow the filling mechanism did not shut off and the sewage rose quickly to flood stage level. An attempt to shut off the water supply failed when the corroded wheel snapped off on contact with my panicky fingers. My mind racing, with feet already wet, I rolled up a bunch of towels and shoved them against the gap between door and floor in an effort to prevent all too-well-known and dreaded bathroom leakage to the bedroom. I popped the lid off the tank in an effort to manually override the fill valve. Unfamiliar with this particularly antiquated 1940's design, I plunged my arms boldly and deeply into the abysmal tank where I fumbled madly, trying to defuse this antique waste disposal device. My increasingly desperate screams for help went unanswered. By the time I had managed to mcguyver an emergency plug from an empty shampoo bottle, a washcloth and the paisley shower curtain, the water (and probably more) was already running into the parking lot.
Let's just say I'm not welcome to stay at any Scottish Inn in Florida anymore.
PS: Las Vegas hotels have much better toilets than hotels anywhere else in the US. I guess it has to do with the cheap dinner buffets.
This should be posted in the humor section! Im sorry it happened to you but that is funny!
So the Las Vegas toilets might be the best because they know there will a lot more than just human waste that could be flushed. That could be another advertisement for Vegas what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas by the way of our top notch toilets.
CR tests toilets. It might help to look at their ratings since there appears to be a real difference among toilets.
We have 4 Eljer Titan toilets that work very well.
We have 4 Eljer Titan toilets that work very well.
Do low flow toilets really work? Well, kind of. If you calculate the triple flush morning coffee #2, along with all the single flush #1's, they do save water in the long run. But I still hate them never the less.
Each person's waste over one year, if properly composted, would sell for about $30 as fertilizer.
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Scottish Inn owes me 5 bucks.
And apparently a new pair of socks.
$30 ?
No wonder they say something ain't worth schitt!
No wonder they say something ain't worth schitt!
Best thing I ever did in my house was throw out the hunk of junk old toilet (which often took two flushes to clear the bowl) with a shiny new Kohler low-flow model. One flush and it's gone, always! The old models I come across are uniformly goofy -- you flush and the water s-l-o-w-l-y leaves the bowl, maybe taking everything with it, maybe not.
The toilets in Japan are great. I mean the new ones, not the old ones you have to squat over.
This thread may be "backing up"...
THE CLUNKER, O' LET ME COUNT THE WAYS.
Yea! & Verily, it does not cloggy
But all the rest is at best doggy
Handle squeaks, no bushing on shaft
Red Seal leaks, too fragile for draft
Bead Chain breaks, just low cost junk
Waiting for rest of plastic parts to fail
Bring on the Class Action or
Better Business Refund
Aldaris,
Don't quit your day job just yet.
Have two watersaver style, both generic. One is from salvage/damage lumber yard, the other stamped made in mexico. Both flush everything 99% of the time. Happy with both.
Bob
We have a couple of Briggs Vacuity (I think that's the name, I bought one and then later bought the second, if that's an endorsment). They use standard fill hardware in the tank but have a blow molded polyethylene tank inside the tank and a special trap in the base. When you flush, the water emptying out of the polyethylene tank creates a vacuum that helps draw the water & waste emptying out of the bowl. You get a sort of push-pull action to empty the bowl. They work well. Sometimes I double flush, but it's more of a precaution than a necessity. The only stoppages I remember was with the little kids, but that's another story.
We recently got some el-cheapo American Standard low flow fulshes at work... and we now have a plunger in every stall (I imagined the plumber after installing these babies handing the maintenance man a plunger and saying "congradulations on your purchase of a new low flow toilet"). The double flush on these is MANDITORY to aviod embaressment.
We recently got some el-cheapo American Standard low flow fulshes at work... and we now have a plunger in every stall (I imagined the plumber after installing these babies handing the maintenance man a plunger and saying "congradulations on your purchase of a new low flow toilet"). The double flush on these is MANDITORY to aviod embaressment.
I'm thinking about replacing my toilets with Toto Drake CST744SGs. They seem to be the best "bang for the buck," flushing 900 grams of waste.
Might just splurge on the Gerber Ultra Flush 21-302, which is a pressure flush toilet and does 1000 grams. It makes a might "whoosh."
Might just splurge on the Gerber Ultra Flush 21-302, which is a pressure flush toilet and does 1000 grams. It makes a might "whoosh."
For any of these low flush units to work properly, the pipes under them have to be right for the unit you are installing.
Old pipes may be to big diameter; the low flush types call for smaller pipes to keep the syphon action working properly.
My 2¢
Old pipes may be to big diameter; the low flush types call for smaller pipes to keep the syphon action working properly.
My 2¢
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