Gramps09
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Greetings gents!
Went shopping for a toilet today, the old one was leaking too much and it turns out it was a crack in the base trap area.
Went to HD / ******* / Lowes, and they sure do offer lots of toilets!
A plumber that was in the store saw me trying to read those boxes, and he said I should get either a Toto Dalton or a Gerber Viper. Would beat pretty much all the toilets that the above stores sell for the price point I am looking at.
He pointed me to a local distrbutor, and the Gerber Viper is around $30 less than the Toto Dalton. They said they had lots of orders for both of them and either one would be a good choice.
They are both high-seat elongated, and they both have pretty much the same flush power (or so I am told).
I don't really care how it looks, just want it to do the job it was made for, and I don't really want to keep flushing forever to get rid of the waste.
Is there a preference as to which one can do the main job better? I am getting too old to fight toilets with a plunger. The old toilet didn't have a name that I could see, but it was at least 35 years old, and it used lots of water.
Also, the wax ring, the old one has a black ruber piece in the center, I was told I didn't really need that, is that correct? I forgot to ask the plumber I saw about this.
Thanks again for the help gents!
Forgot to mention, I saw this test for the Gerber Viper:
But I can't find one for the Toto Dalton.
Went shopping for a toilet today, the old one was leaking too much and it turns out it was a crack in the base trap area.
Went to HD / ******* / Lowes, and they sure do offer lots of toilets!
A plumber that was in the store saw me trying to read those boxes, and he said I should get either a Toto Dalton or a Gerber Viper. Would beat pretty much all the toilets that the above stores sell for the price point I am looking at.
He pointed me to a local distrbutor, and the Gerber Viper is around $30 less than the Toto Dalton. They said they had lots of orders for both of them and either one would be a good choice.
They are both high-seat elongated, and they both have pretty much the same flush power (or so I am told).
I don't really care how it looks, just want it to do the job it was made for, and I don't really want to keep flushing forever to get rid of the waste.
Is there a preference as to which one can do the main job better? I am getting too old to fight toilets with a plunger. The old toilet didn't have a name that I could see, but it was at least 35 years old, and it used lots of water.
Also, the wax ring, the old one has a black ruber piece in the center, I was told I didn't really need that, is that correct? I forgot to ask the plumber I saw about this.
Thanks again for the help gents!
Forgot to mention, I saw this test for the Gerber Viper:
But I can't find one for the Toto Dalton.
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