Experience with Geberit Tessera
This response probably comes too late for your bathroom remodel, but I can tell you what my experience is. All the toilets in our brand-new house are Geberit Tessera models. We moved from a house with 15-year-old 1.6 gallon per flush low-cost floor-mounted toilets.
The wall-hung toilets make the bathroom floors easier to clean. Also, the toilets take up less room in the bathroom than the floor-mounted units. We have radiant heat in the floors, so the wall-hung toilets mean we don't have to worry about problems such as wax rings melting.
However, the Geberit units have many deficiencies, and I would probably avoid them if I were to build another house.
The toilets are loud when they flush. We have the pipes wrapped in carpet pad for sound deadening, and the bathroom walls are filled with sound-deadening insulation. Still, flushing a toilet is clearly audible throughout the house. The toilets seem much louder than the cheap toilets in our old house.
Our neighbor's patio is perhaps 15 feet from our house. They enjoy having people over on sunny weekends, and like to sit out on their patio to talk. Our bathrooms have ventilation windows. The neighbors want to put up a vegetation barrier between our house and their yard. They are specifically looking for something dense and fast-growing. They want to grow the barrier in our yard.
The Geberit toilets jam frequently. In our old house, we had 1-2 times a year when we had to reach for a plunger. In our new house, we have had 3 plunger episodes in eight months.
The Geberit toilets flush no better than the cheap 1.6 gallon toilets in our old house. They need double-flushing slightly more often than the old toilets did, because the Geberit design results in streaks around the bowl edge. Make certain the second flush of the two-flush sequence is as soon as possible after the first one, or you will find yourself cleaning the bowl frequently with a brush.
There is an issue with the wall-hung toilets that I had not considered before we built the house. After the toilet frame is set in the wall, the height cannot be adjusted without tearing open the wall. If you have someone who needs a toilet at a special height, for example, an in-law coming to live with you, you have much more work to go through than with a floor-mounted toilet.
All in all, my experience is that a $150 toilet from Home Depot probably works better than a $650 toilet from Geberit.
that was a pain trying to get parts. the fill valve went bad. I personally do not recommend this toilets to any one, stay with the traditional, if you are looking for a good functioning toilet and save water at the same time my best recommendation are the Gerber pressure assisted, or even the regular Gerber gravity toilet, they are good, nice looking and easy to maintain.
