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My American chamion-4 has served me well. However, the lifespan has come to an end. I'm thinking about getting a new toilet. As long as it is elongated and one-piece, I'll be content. I don't care what brand it is, TOTO, Kohler... The important thing is it has to complete its job, flushing the bastard down.
My American chamion-4 has served me well.
However, the lifespan has come to an end.
Care to quantify what you call it's life span?
If the ceramics aren't split... what's the problem?
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I'm thinking about getting a new toilet.
Clearly.
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Originally Posted by davebarnes
Glacier Bay (2 piece) from Home Depot. $100 USD.
Rated highly by Consumer Reports. My personal experience agrees with them.
I bought one too when I needed a T in a hurry one day (work site error).
It's not awful and on a $$ basis it's hard to say it isn't a bargain.
But I've never cared for the button operator gizmo in the lid.
Still, when the time came to buy one upstairs and when I install one downstairs this spring...
I'm gonna stick with the American Standard (the 2 piece Cadet for about $150).
People here don't believe that toilets can start to just be bad or crack. It's like some shocking news to them.
I like replacing toilets when they age. You don't have to take my word for it, but I know someone whose 15 year toilet cracked and flooded a room and started running to the outside of the house. So yes, I am all in favor of this poster changing toilets.
People here don't believe that toilets can start to just be bad or crack. It's like some shocking news to them.
I like replacing toilets when they age. You don't have to take my word for it, but I know someone whose 15 year toilet cracked and flooded a room and started running to the outside of the house. So yes, I am all in favor of this poster changing toilets.
Do you actually believe a "toilet" can crack all by itself?
A flush valve can go bad- which would could entail a continuous flow of water "through" the toilet. A supply valve could fail- that could definitely incur some flooding. But it's not a part of the "toilet". A wax seal could go bad, but that usually limits leaking to a flush.
Cracking would be due to some other force applied to the toilet itself. I've seen tanks cracked because the mounting bolts were too tight. And I've seen them cracked because of people leaning back against the tank and there's no support behind the tank; or the toilet is set too far away from the wall. Bowls cracking is definitely from being hit or water freezing inside of them- neither of which are "just cracked".
A toilet is nothing more than a vessel to hold water- there's nothing "mechanical" about it other than the flush valve; so they don't have a life span other than esthetics.
Totos have good flush mechanisms. Avoid anything that incorporates a "platform" in the bowl. Steep sides only. Mt Toto toilets can expediently eliminate pasta leavings - the true test. You know what Sophia said..."when pasta sticks to the wall...it's done." Well babe, it doesn't end there.
The more likely candidate is the plumbing, not the toilet. We are talking Thailand right?
I have three very expensive elongated one piece American Standard toilets, they still look good, but they are now 33 years old. The flush mechanisms have been replaced numerous times. They are water hogs, and many times require two flushes, so nothing wrong aesthetically, but not so technically, time for new technology.
I have three very expensive elongated one piece American Standard toilets, they still look good, but they are now 33 years old. The flush mechanisms have been replaced numerous times. They are water hogs, and many times require two flushes, so nothing wrong aesthetically, but not so technically, time for new technology.
Just be careful, because that "new technology" can really bite you in the arse.
We had "new technology" (translated - "water efficient" design that required at least two flushes to "perform") and it cost us a pretty penny. After suffering through this stupid toilet thing for nearly two years, we went to a showroom where we could actually flush a series of toilets - and the cheapo American Standard was the best by FAR. I mean, I guess we could have spent $1800 for one that flushed as well as the AS, but we chose to spend $200 or so instead.
I mean, it's a toilet - not a piece of art. I'll hang the art elsewhere in the room, thank you very kindly.
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