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Maybe they got tired of plunging, and decided to get something that works better?
Does Home Depot "cheapen" their toilets?
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Maybe they got tired of plunging, and decided to get something that works better?
Today I was at Lowes and noticed their American Standard toilets were on sale. They looks like the Cadet 3 line but didn't say Cadet 3 on the labels and the model numbers had a different prefix. So I asked. The woman told me that Home Depot has the Cadet 3 name and there's are the same. She then went thru the boxes showing me one that actually said Cadet on it. Sometimes they mislabel she said.
So what does this tell me? If they are marking boxes differently than the production run is obviously dedicated to a certain store. I noticed the Lowes toilet tanks had no Styrofoam liner but the Depot ones are lined.
There you go. The obviously have runs for big box stores and I wouldn't not be surprized if quality control was cut to meet price points. They had an open box I looked at and the tank was terrible. The bottom was not flat anywhere on it including the gasket seating. I mean really, really! wonky and there was a blue stain clearly showing the gasket leaked. I could actually see the gap of about 1/16 where the pre installed gasket made no contact with the tank bottom. Some sap will take that home and wonder what he is doing wrong. No one seemed to care. I also noticed the "donut" that goes between the tank and bowl was completely different than the one I got with my toilet at HD. Closer to foam than rubber. I could see that break down with chlorinated water.
So what does this tell me? If they are marking boxes differently than the production run is obviously dedicated to a certain store. I noticed the Lowes toilet tanks had no Styrofoam liner but the Depot ones are lined.
There you go. The obviously have runs for big box stores and I wouldn't not be surprized if quality control was cut to meet price points. They had an open box I looked at and the tank was terrible. The bottom was not flat anywhere on it including the gasket seating. I mean really, really! wonky and there was a blue stain clearly showing the gasket leaked. I could actually see the gap of about 1/16 where the pre installed gasket made no contact with the tank bottom. Some sap will take that home and wonder what he is doing wrong. No one seemed to care. I also noticed the "donut" that goes between the tank and bowl was completely different than the one I got with my toilet at HD. Closer to foam than rubber. I could see that break down with chlorinated water.
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