toilet advice

[jimboburnsy]

I see that this thread is about 1.5 years old and there has been a lot of good advice, however, I wanted to chip in with regard to modern low volume toilets.

The first low flow toilets were really awful. 1.5 gpf was about useless since I always had to flush 8 times.

Some of the modern toilets will be advertised as "high performance". Those are the only ones you want. Go into HD and ask the guy where the toilet that flushes an entire bucket of golf balls is. Do you have it in the elongated bowl with comfort height? Good, that's the one you're buying. The angles, jet nozzles and velocities have been extremely well-engineered and that toilet will actually outperform your old 20 GPF toilet. Note that your "rough-in" for the old toilet will probably be different so you will have a bit of space behind the new toilet. Let me suggest a magazine rack. The only problem with the comfort height toilets is that you never get the pins and needles in your legs that once let you know it was time to get off the pot. You'll read an entire sports illustrated if you aren't careful.

[handyhandz4u]

On toilets until 1980 I replace fill valve and flapper with explanation that it might not work well anyhow. Not economical to try fixing something over 20 years of age. If it works good after that you lucked out. Anything from before 1980 I recommend replacement. Especially those blue, pink and green hideous big beasts.

[handyhandz4u]

Toto is junk stay clear I like: am. st. or kohler.