How Good are New Toilets?

[dilalio]

Bazelgette's sewer system was designed for high level, high volume cisterns.

And we wonder why we get drain blockages!

 

[spile]

We like the design and performance of the Geberit wall hung.

 

[Koolpc]

I go outside to pee etc..

 

[mattylad]

I just had a new rimless toilet fitted with a hidden 6l cistern and so far it seems to flush very well, the cistern fills quickly and stuff just goes down the pipes well.

https://www.plumbworld.co.uk/ceramica-arles-rimless-back-to-wall-toilet-soft-close-seat-1050-1274514

https://www.plumbworld.co.uk/geberit-alpha-1090mm-concealed-cistern-with-alpha01-square-flush-plates-109013211-2255-1288435

What I will say though is that the supplied seat is imo too small for the toilet, it looks fine but the pads under the seat are barely on the rim.
Something totally nothing to do with this thread but hey ho.

 

[robinbanks]

And we wonder why we get drain blockages!

We get blockages because the dipsticks of the world treat a toilet like a rubbish bin and dump all manner of things down it other than pee, poo and paper

I imagine that countries with narrower piping, who have convinced their populations to dump used toilet tissue in a bin beside the toilet, would have an easier time convincing those populations to also not dump gallons of melted animals fats down the sink

Other end of the spectrum, my mother in law, recently said "oh I just squirt a bit of fairy liquid in it and some hot water then pour it away

I kept the fat from the next time we cooked a family's worth of sausages and burgers in the air fryer, mixed it with fairy liquid and water and left it in a plastic bottle on the island. After a few days the curiosity got the better of her and she asked what the white slime was coating the inside of the bottle

I don't think the explanation has swayed her at all to change her behaviour for the benefit of her drains nor the shared mains though..

 

[Pete the Feet]

Rimless my arse. They still need cleaning underneath where the water comes from and flows to. Perhaps they are easier to clean though.

 

[dilalio]

Rimless my arse.

So you've had surgery on your piles too?

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Other end of the spectrum, my mother in law, recently said "oh I just squirt a bit of fairy liquid in it and some hot water then pour it away

We pour it, whilst still hot, on top of the rubbish in the kitchen bin. The rubbish catches it, cools it, absorbs it. Then what's left in the pan - we add water, washing up liquid, and simmer for a few minutes.

 

[aveatry]

Blockages, I think narrow boat, and other boaty people have a saying. Nothing gos down the loo that hasn't first been through you.

 

[aveatry]

We pour it, whilst still hot, on top of the rubbish in the kitchen bin. The rubbish catches it, cools it, absorbs it. Then what's left in the pan - we add water, washing up liquid, and simmer for a few minutes.

Same here or if there is a lot and its a new bin liner with not much in it then it gos in a pot on the windowsill and the hard fat can be scrapped off the top, I might even use the jelly whats left in my next gravey.

 

[Diver Fred]

I imagine that countries with narrower piping, who have convinced their populations to dump used toilet tissue in a bin beside the toilet, would have an easier time convincing those populations to also not dump gallons of melted animals fats down the sink

Family home is on a septic tank. After, well really during covid and the toilet paper shortage they had a Shataf fitted (and used) which reduced their toilet paper concumption grately. Now having become used to the idea and practise of washing over wiping themselve clean they rarely use paper. Noticably their tank is emptied far less and the outflow from the tank (to a soakaway) in much cleaner and ceratinly less grey. Even the wife who was a bit 'off' about using the Shataf is now OK with it and we have fitted one on our toilet.

We still get people who think we are wierd and have funny toilet habits 'cause we have one.

 

[robinbanks]

We still get people who think we are wierd and have funny toilet habits 'cause we have one.

Small minds

Perhaps they never paused to consider their own habits odd, but as anyone who has ever cleaned up a nappy wearing child will know; you just can't get all the **** off a warm surface with dry paper. That last dried
smear just doesn't shift unless you go at it with a solvent

Your routine is highly likely far more hygienic than theirs!

And don't get me going on people that don't shower and properly wash the crack of their arse before they use a public swimming pool. Filthy animals

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Your routine is highly likely far more hygienic than theirs!

Fixing the fill-valve/flush valve, in the toilet system, earlier today, I used a drinking mug, to bale it out, as it wouldn't flush. Av went into a bit of a panic, at my using a mug we normally drink out of, to bale..

 

[robinbanks]

One of the guys at work brushed his teeth and spat the toothpaste into the canteen sink, and the sales manager did her nut about it because she routinely washed her cup in the same sink

I'm still not sure what her point was, especially given that when she described her washing process as only ever fillling the cup with water from the tap and dumping it down the sink, I noted that her spit was thus in the sink too

Polarised the office that one..

 

[Pete the Feet]

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...

Siphonic toilets were widely used in some hospitals at one point in time. They were used particularly on Maternity and Gynaecological wards. The main problem with toilets blocking on these wards was that the patients used to put their fag ends inside the cistern, thus blocking up the channels in the toilet pan rim. At first it was thought that the siphonic pans were the problem until a plumber figured it out.