FullySprinklered
In the Trades
Put in 4 toilets in a house today. Two Glacier Bays in the jack and jill, and two American Standards; one in the powder room and one in the master bath.
All four flanges had issues, but I got them all properly installed and left two streaks of rubber in the driveway as I left at 4:30 this afternoon, to join rush hour traffic.
The Glacier Bays were fine. Elongated, comfort height, nice flush( for a pants-up review). I would gladly swap my 1984 American Standard roulette wheel for one of those.
The American Standard toilets were something different. These are called the Optum VorMax. Trade-mark on both quasi-words. It has two side-by-side drain valve/flapper components in the tank. Think double-barrel shotgun. The bowl has two matching holes to accept the flow from said dual flappers. Engineers gotta eat too, I guess.
The instructions call for you to flush this thing five times to prime the system for further usage.
It has a good flush. First time. If you flush it again just when the tank refills it goes into this slosh-around-nothing-happening kind of mode.
I'll try to find some time to research this new system over the weekend. I don't want to pass judgment without trying to understand the plan.
All four flanges had issues, but I got them all properly installed and left two streaks of rubber in the driveway as I left at 4:30 this afternoon, to join rush hour traffic.
The Glacier Bays were fine. Elongated, comfort height, nice flush( for a pants-up review). I would gladly swap my 1984 American Standard roulette wheel for one of those.
The American Standard toilets were something different. These are called the Optum VorMax. Trade-mark on both quasi-words. It has two side-by-side drain valve/flapper components in the tank. Think double-barrel shotgun. The bowl has two matching holes to accept the flow from said dual flappers. Engineers gotta eat too, I guess.
The instructions call for you to flush this thing five times to prime the system for further usage.
It has a good flush. First time. If you flush it again just when the tank refills it goes into this slosh-around-nothing-happening kind of mode.
I'll try to find some time to research this new system over the weekend. I don't want to pass judgment without trying to understand the plan.
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