Looking for a new toilet?
I want a toilet that flushes!
There is a new generation of gravity flow toilets emerging now. After 10 years of complaints, manufacturers have improved the flushability of low flow toilets. They still use 1.6 gallons of water but work much better. Click on the link below for a scientific comparison of many current toilets. This study was a Cooperative Canadian and American Project.
Testing of Popular Toilet Models
(see pg. 25 For easy reference, worst-best)
After you chose a toilet or two call me for a price Quote.
I can supply a toilet and installation. My Favorites are the Toto Drake and the Kohler Cimerron.
Do you have a water saver, low flow toilet?
All toilets sold in the US are now "low flow". A nation wide building code was instituted in 1995 to save our precious resource, water. This in turn created a glut of frustration and toilets that seemed to use more water.
All toilet manufacturers scrambled to produce a 1.6 gallon flush toilet to satisfy the new code. Most manufactures reduced the diameter of the trap to allow for a good siphon action. Some put little plastic baskets in the tank, others used foam floats on the flapper chain. These worked great with an all fluid or fluid and toilet paper flush. As you know solid waste added to this mix can cause a clogged toilet. You may have one of these marvels of technology in your home now.
Is your toilet mineralized?
Over the years, minerals from your water source can build up in the water ways of the toilet bowl. This creates a slow flush or worse, an overflow! I have tried everything from chemicals to chisels to remove these deposits to no avail. Chiseling the siphon jet out helps for a little while in some cases but then there’s the trap that is inaccessible for the most part. I broke open a toilet trap one time and found so much mineral build up that there was only a 3/4 inch tunnel through it . (A new,clean trap is about 2 inches)
The only solution is to replace the toilet.