FullySprinklered
In the Trades
Installed 5 Totos today; a personal best. I sent four Glacier Bays and one Eljer to the happy hunting grounds.
Interestingly, there were no broken flanges in the house, and all five were able to use 12" supply tubes. I stopped buying 12 inchers years ago after coming up an inch short a couple of times, and having to pull off the job to get longer ones. The customer provided the tubes; I would never have chanced it.
Only problem was the 10" rough toilet in the basement. I needed a 9 7/8 rough in toilet but I made the 10 work. It's totally hugging the wall, needless to say.
I spent some time thinking about the change-over to water saving toilets today. Used to, we would set out a house, then come back a week later after the CO and snatch out the 1.6 toilets and install 3.5 s. Everybody hated the water savers. And they did suck. They would streak badly and often took two flushes to make the snickers bar go away.
Toto came along with something that would actually function on 1.6 gallons of water. At first it was the least expensive toilet to be had at the supply house. But it worked. It was the first to be designed from the ground up to get the job done using the least possible amount of water. The other guys put trick flappers and Clorox jugs in the tank to make existing technology work, but it fell flat.
There are plenty of really good toilets out there nowadays. Toto is not the only good one. But they were the first and I became a fan from the start. The quality is high and I feel like I can trust them to keep it that way.
Interestingly, there were no broken flanges in the house, and all five were able to use 12" supply tubes. I stopped buying 12 inchers years ago after coming up an inch short a couple of times, and having to pull off the job to get longer ones. The customer provided the tubes; I would never have chanced it.
Only problem was the 10" rough toilet in the basement. I needed a 9 7/8 rough in toilet but I made the 10 work. It's totally hugging the wall, needless to say.
I spent some time thinking about the change-over to water saving toilets today. Used to, we would set out a house, then come back a week later after the CO and snatch out the 1.6 toilets and install 3.5 s. Everybody hated the water savers. And they did suck. They would streak badly and often took two flushes to make the snickers bar go away.
Toto came along with something that would actually function on 1.6 gallons of water. At first it was the least expensive toilet to be had at the supply house. But it worked. It was the first to be designed from the ground up to get the job done using the least possible amount of water. The other guys put trick flappers and Clorox jugs in the tank to make existing technology work, but it fell flat.
There are plenty of really good toilets out there nowadays. Toto is not the only good one. But they were the first and I became a fan from the start. The quality is high and I feel like I can trust them to keep it that way.