How Good are New Toilets?

[Mottie]

i often have to pour a bucket of water in at the same time to get it round the bend

Quite embarrassing if you at someone else's house and you have to ask for a large bucket and a stick

 

[Madrab]

I think everyone needs more fibre in their diet

 

[ChrisJP]

Not only are modern 6L toilets often unable to flush properly, but these small cisterns are too small for the reliable and leak free siphon flush system to work. So instead they are fitted with a bottom outlet valve which often leaks - and since this is into the toilet bowl this leak goes unnoticed.
So the "save the planet" move to tiny toilet cisterns to "save water" actually wastes it in two ways - needing 2 or 3 flushes instead of one, and continual unnoticed leaks from the cistern into the toilet.
Law of unintended consequences!

 

[aveatry]

Law of unintended consequences!

Or EU
Like low power vacume cleaners = use for twice as long
Like hair dryers = use twice as long

 

[blup]

Modern flush valves are far more efficient than the old flapper valves plus you can usually adjust the fill valve to use the water required to clear the pan.