This thread brought up the subject of low flow toilets, and how poorly they flush. I currently own an apartment with a dynamite toilet. It’s older technology and flushes like a dream, double flushing is a rarity, and the bowl is always rinsed down cleanly.
Question is, when I eventually move out, can I take my beloved toilet with me? Just install a new (i.e. lousy) toilet in the apt, and replace whatever is in my new digs with the good toilet? I do own the apt, so I’m certainly not stealing the thing. Will I have to be all stealthy for fear of the toilet police?
As sad as it seems, I am seriously considering it…
Of course you can take it. Just make sure that you’ve fitted the new, lousier toilet before you contract to sell the apartment to anyone else. (They’ll expect to receive it with the fixtures and fittings it had when they agreed to buy it.)
If you own your apartment, then I agree with UDS (but check your buildings rules and regs). If you rent your apartment, then probably not, depending on your lease.
(In California we don’t generally speak of “owning” an apartment. If you own something that looks like an apartment, we call it a condominium.)
Don’t get too attached to things in a rental place, especially the crapper
FWIW low flow toilets have improved dramatically. I installed an Eljer Patriot 1.6gpf in my parents house and it flushes as well as any old style toilet I’ve seen and wasn’t expensive. The toilets that came with their manufactured home were so bad we had to keep an additional bucket of water handy to assist them.
Don’t get too attached to things in a rental place, especially the crapper
FWIW low flow toilets have improved dramatically. I installed an Eljer Patriot 1.6gpf in my parents house and it flushes as well as any old style toilet I’ve seen and wasn’t expensive. The toilets that came with their manufactured home were so bad we had to keep an additional bucket of water handy to assist them.
(I have a pressure assist 1.6gpf toilet. It was only $200, and saved me a trip to Windsor, Ont. It works better than the old, big toilet that constantly plugged.)
When you show your apartment to a prospective buyer all permanently attached items, such as a toilet, belong to the property. If he notices that you swapped toilets on him he has every right to demand that you put the old toilet back. If you swap toilets before putting it on the market or obtain a written release from the buyer then there would be no problem. It is illegal, however, to sell a used toilet and that is perhaps what you were thinking of.
If you want to save some cash, once you remove the toilet, paint a couple of footprints on the floor so that the next residents will know where to place their feet when they squat over the hole.
Is there still a big business in toilet smuggling? I remember an old Dave Barry column about contractors in Michigan who got big bucks to go into Canada and buy high-flush toilets.
