How Good are New Toilets?

[Mottie]

A German obsession I believe. Sounds disgusting to me!

I’m sure I’ve seen ones like that in Spain and France.

My brother has one of those. It works very well. Next time I visit I'll see if there's a name on it

My parents had one like that. Siphonic I think it was called but they insisted it was a symphonic wc!

 

[opps]

I’m sure I’ve seen ones like that in Spain and France.

I first encountered them in the Netherlands.

 

[Pete the Feet]

These ledge type toilets are often used in hospital Out patient departments. They facilitate the collector stool samples. Another place I first saw them in a non hospital environment was at a Centre Parks in Cambridgeshire.

 

[aveatry]

This German examining thing what are they looking for and how are they trained to see it. The only thing I can think of is blood in there but its microscopic so you need a lab to find it - unless it looks like a chorizo, in which case you got big problems.

 

[amfisted]

Glad it’s not just me who has a problem with new, rimless WCs. I installed a “bog in a box” about six months ago, and right from the word Go I was needing a bog brush and second flush for the first time in years. At one point I began to wonder whether the missus was putting glue in my food, so tenacious did the brown stuff become. But there’s nothing to be done about it except expect the skids and deal with them accordingly, nose held, gorge rising. Best toilets ever for efficient disposal were the old “high level cistern” jobs like the one in the outside toilet of our first house. Chain pull, deafening cascade of water and everything flushed, including the user if you didn’t stand up fast enough.

 

[robinbanks]

efficient disposal

But they used about 30 litres of water per flush. Efficiency is about doing more with less, so they're technically the opposite

It may surprise you that fresh water is in short supply in the modern day and age - https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2024/03/21/meeting-our-water-needs-for-the-next-25-years/
.. and like many things finite in resource the answer is not "carry on burning through it at the same rate and find ways to make more", it's "use less"

I've just installed a grohe skate in-wall slimline cistern that's 2 inches thick and puts about 3 litres into the bowl on the small button. The bog is the cheapest back to wall one that Victorian plumbing supplied and amazingly it's enough to clear the bowl of all reasonable solids..

How much TP do you use per wipe? Does the bowl clear if you do a halfway flush when it's less full of paper? Could be an indicator you're using too much

If no, then perhaps the answer to your double flush routine is to replace the bowl?

 

[dilalio]

Stop pinching off pipe chokers!

Train your turds to swim so you can have more phantom dumps!

Merry Christmas ya filthy animals

 

[spile]

The U.S.A pans are very different to ours with a comparatively large pool of shallow water.

 

[yorksbuilder]

USA uses a lot of the syphoning type. They are rubbish, managed to block a couple of them, bit embarrassing going and asking hosts for a plunger...

 

[dilalio]

USA uses a lot of the syphoning type. They are rubbish, managed to block a couple of them, bit embarrassing going and asking hosts for a plunger...

Specially considering what they consume!

 

[yorksbuilder]

Triple portion chipotle Vs. Syphonic loo, new World Series sport

 

[Pete the Feet]

A German obsession I believe. Sounds disgusting to me!

Its understandable considering their diet of Curry Wurst. I remember visiting Munich a few years ago. The amount of advertisements for Gastric Clinics was quite astounding; never seen one advertised anywhere else on my travels. In fact there was one only a few doors away from our hotel.

 

[fixitflav]

Its understandable considering their diet of Curry Wurst. I remember visiting Munich a few years ago. The amount of advertisements for Gastric Clinics was quite astounding; never seen one advertised anywhere else on my travels. In fact there was one only a few doors away from our hotel.

Don't remember that from last time I was in Munich, but it was a few years ago.

 

[foxhole]

Huge variety of toilets and performance, many of the issues come when manufacturers just reduced the cistern size without any thought to performance. Fitted three at my last home , all concealed cisterns, one flushed fine , another sometimes took two flushes while the worse took as many as four flushes.

 

[Pete the Feet]

Don't remember that from last time I was in Munich, but it was a few years ago.

I saw the adverts on the Underground and on a few billboards. Around Christmas 2006 ish.