Thanks for all your help selecting a toilet!

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Thanks for all your help selecting a toilet. I have been "geeking out" over toilets this past month---I never realized how complicated selecting a toilet has gotten since the newer low gpf requirements, and the chair-height vs standard vs round vs elongated options have become so prevalent!! I started out reading the Consumer Reports reviews and then read reviews of actual buyers of the toilets and became totally confused. I know from experience from CR's reviews of other products that you have to take their reviews "with a grain of salt"! So I came to this forum and asked questions and read past posts as well. You all helped me eventually develop a rudimentary consumer's knowledge of the toilets out there and what was what!

Since we were on a very tight budget for fixing up our house to get it ready to sell it this spring, and since I decided that I really wanted a standard height, round toilet for the "kids" small bathroom, I finally decided to get the American Standard Cadet 3 in the standard height, round, 1.6 gpf version -- which HD had (online) on sale for $132! Thanks to all your cautions, I will just inspect it carefully and return it for a replacement if it has problems. (I have more time than money!) Reading through some of the older posts, it sounds like Terry recommends the Cadet 3 if you can't afford a Toto, and said that their design seemed to copy the Drake, so I figured it would be like the "poor man's" Toto Drake, LOL!

I did call American Standard, by the way, and asked if the 1.6 gpf Cadet 3 would give a slightly better flush and bowl clean than the 1.28 and they did say, yes. They said that you could not adjust the 1.28 cadet to turn it into a 1.6 gpf, either, but that everything else was the same about the toilets.

Thanks again for this valuable forum and your willingness to help and to help educate the public.
 
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