At work we have 1.6 gallon per flush toilets installed in our restrooms. At least once per week I have to go track down a plunger in order to clear some sort of blockage that is causing a toilet not to flush. Usually this blockage is my own poop which the toilet seems unable to reliably and consistently dispose of.
I don’t think that I produce more poop than the average poop-producing person. Nor do I think that when my poop comes out it is so much more rigid than average poop that it gets stuck.
I am sick and fucking tired of having to use a plunger at work every week. These toilets are horrible! I understand that low flow toilets are used in order to save water, but fucking christ in a burrito, I would gladly pay $100 more per year in order to sit comfortably on one of those 7 gallon per flush toilets that my grandfather speaks so fondly of. Hell, I would be ecstatic to own a 4.5 gallon per flush toilet…but alas, in our efforts to conserve water I no longer have these options.
So, fuck. I suppose I will continue to use the plunger more than I feel is appropriate, but I will not be happy about it.
My workplace recepticals are even worse. They don’t even flush the tiny bit of toilet paper used for a girly number one usage. And the cleaning people keep posting that we shouldn’t flush paper towels or any other stuff. For Og’s sake, the toilets can’t even take 5 pieces of the news print that they call TP.
I’ve got the 1.6 gallon flushers in my house, and I have to say I’ve never had a problem with them. It seems the toilet has to be better designed when you get this kind. If you buy the cheapest toilet available, then it won’t work very well. When I had my house built, I bought the best toilet I could get. From what I understand, if the inner workings are glazed, then the toilet will work well. If it is unglazed and rough, then it won’t flow well enough with 1.6 gallons to flush right. My toilet has never been clogged in the five years I’ve owned this house.
I checked, and the toilets that we have at work are made by Gerber. Several coworkers have told me that Gerber tends to make toilets of rather poor quality. Perhaps I can talk the boss into getting some new, better quality toilets.
I installed mine and posted about it about 4 years ago on here. Has NEVER clogged, even when about a quarter roll of paper towels got put in during a tile scrubbing. Took two flushes (first time ever), but it did blast it on down.
I can’t for the life of me understand why people who have the choice and the funds to install a better toilet don’t go pressure-assist. The only downside I’ve ever seen is scaring guests when they come over for the first time.
FUCK low-flow toilets! We have them in our apartment (so we had no choice of which ones to get). Our master bathroom toilet almost NEVER flushes right when there’s poo involved. :mad:
I remember that thread, along with the video clip of the red balls being flushed down to the pits of hell. Was it a kit, or did you have to buy a whole new toilet?
I have a friend who installed one a few years ago and loves it. Her only problem is that occasionally it needs adjusting so it doesn’t nearly suck her butt down, but the only guy in town she’d found who could reliably adjust it hit the Powerball and won like $40 million and for some reason isn’t interested in fixing her toilet any more.
Do they still make pressure-assisted toilets? My parents had one but it finally broke and because the company didn’t make them anymore, they had to replace it with a regular one.
I’m going to miss the pressure-assisted one. It was great.
I have no idea what a pressure assisted toilet is, nor what a low pressure toilet is, but don’t you guys have the 2-button loo? One button is for a wee and the other button is for a poo. I have never had a blockage if I used the right button.
No, Kiwi, we only have one button. My trip to Oz a couple years ago was the first time I’d seen the two-button deal. Makes a lot of sense.
Anyhow, I recently visited a friend who had just renovated his bathroom, and was impressed by his new crapper. This thing flushed with authority. I mentioned it to him, and he said it was even a 1.6GPF low-flow. It was an American Standard “Champion.” Champion poop destroyer, that is. The manufacturer claims it can suck down 24 golf balls in one flush. Just in case you accidentally eat 24 golf balls, I guess.
All I can say is that if I ever need a new toilet, that’s what I’m getting.
Possible rejected American Standard ad campaign slogan: 24 golf balls! No shit!
The funny thing is that these 1.6 gallon toilets that we are all using are supposed to save water. Instead, it seems to me that they just end up wasting water.
Everybody knows they can’t flush more than two wads of paper down at once. What I end up doing is simply flushing multiple times. Since so little water is used per flush, there isn’t as much recovery time for most toilets between flushes. You can flush once for each wipe.
It’s typical government with unintended consequences. By trying to save water we actually end up wasting more water.
I agree that every single time the govt tries to save money it ends up losing on the deal… but look into the 2 button loo. It is a good thing. Saves money on a wee but still gets rid of a poo.
The Best Flush™ system by American Standard as embodied in their Champion line has impressed me quite a bit. I don’t have any experience with pressure assist toilets, but really I think either would be a good choice. It’s just a question of which you would prefer and your budget(pressure-assist are slightly cheaper and made by multiple companies). In general it’s hard to go wrong with American Standard.
