Toilets

[WVBill]

When I bought my house 12 years ago, I wasn't thinking about it so the builder just used standard "builder's grade" toilets.

After moving in we soon learned that "incremental flushing" of a big "job" was imperative to avoid having to plunge.

This past weekend I replaced one of the toilets with a Kohler Cimarron.

WOW!! :thumbsup: You press the flush handle and by the time the handle is half way down, WHOOOSH, the bowl is empty! :cool2:

Next weekend, the other toilet gets replaced.

 

[Mousefield]

Less water being used as well I would suspect. :thumbsup:
In this case pics may not be that good of an idea. :laughing:

 

[deepNdirt]

Must have been a proud moment:cloud9:







it was for me when changing ours out 3 years ago

 

[MoKelly]

Geez. With the internet seems nothing is private anymore.:laughing:

MoKelly

 

[czechsonofagun]

When I bought my house 12 years ago, I wasn't thinking about it so the builder just used standard "builder's grade" toilets.

After moving in we soon learned that "incremental flushing" of a big "job" was imperative to avoid having to plunge.

This past weekend I replaced one of the toilets with a Kohler Cimarron.

WOW!! :thumbsup: You press the flush handle and by the time the handle is half way down, WHOOOSH, the bowl is empty! :cool2:

Next weekend, the other toilet gets replaced.

Reminds me of the stuff they made me drink for colonoscopy; I felt like Kohler Cimarron

 

[WVBill]

Less water being used as well I would suspect.

As a matter of fact, yes. Although both toilets are listed as 1.6gpf, the new one can do the job with what appears to be a "half flush".

The advantage of this became clear yesterday when we had a power outage due to a storm. We're on well and don't have a backup genny so one of the greatest inconveniences of a power outage used to be the limit of one flush per toilet until the power came back on. With the "half-flush" we have doubled our power outage flushing potential (or "POFP" - hey maybe I just invented a new toilet rating factor ?? :laughing

 

[FastPauly]

WARNING!!
I read on the internet somewhere of a case involving one of these "high energy" flushing type toilets. An elderly gentleman, I believe he was from the state of Nebraska, suffered a disfiguring injury to himself by accidently pushing the flush handle while still on the throne. The forces applied to the man resulted in his ears being sucked into his skull....rather than surgery, Doctors have opted to put him on a special diet in an attempt to create just the correct amount of internal pressure to force his ears back out to their normal position.

I got this from the Internet......so it must be true?? :confused2:

 

[mjarrels]

We built about 12 years ago, 1.6 gal toilets, had our builder come back and make toilets flush at full flush, also had him remove restrictors on the showers, I like hot showers. Sounds like your retired Navy.

mark USN Retired

 

[Ken_CT]

When the 1.6 gpf toilets were made mandatory the early ones were horrible. Most needed to be flushed twice to clear the bowl. Everyone hated them. There was even a black market to buy the old style toilets from Canada. In time they started to improve, Sloan came out with the Flush Mate assembly, which used air pressure to make a very powerful flush. The down side was it sounded like a jet taking off. As time went on the flush improved tremendously, now the good ones (not the home cheapo low end models) flush better than the old type. Every once in a while things actually get better :thumbsup:.

 

[tglass]

Geez. With the internet seems nothing is private anymore.:laughing:

MoKelly

Private, yes, but I still get a kick out of the Ferguson Al Bundy installed on All In The Family TV show. A real toilet where the Ferguson just said "guish..go ahead, give me your best shot". A real toilet.