Toilets
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Topic: Toilets
Posted By: fixer1958
Subject: Toilets
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2023 at 7:51am
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Since Joe's frostbite cold water issue got me thinking about the junky toilets we have. What is the best brand of toilet to get? Haven't been real satisfied with any I have bought over the years. Slow flushing toilets have caused me some drain issue and I fixed that to some extent, but I don't really want an Al Bundy turbo flush either I don't think. Suggestions?
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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2023 at 10:14am
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Dang, and I was going to suggest a Ferguson! Seriously though, we built our house roughly 15 years ago and installed Mansfield crappers. They seem to be good, only problem is the guts are special, if you need to replace them you have to get Mansfield guts.
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Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2023 at 10:43am
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American Standard Cadet Pro tall elongated. Can't buy them at Lowe's or Menards. Can order one through Walmart.com or purchase through local wholesale house. They used to only sell to plumbers but most will sell to anyone ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: fixer1958
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2023 at 10:50am
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Thank you. I will look into that. Going to happen in the next month or so. I need 3 so it's going to be one at a time.
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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2023 at 10:58am
How long does one have to use a toilet to be a Pro?
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Pat the Plumber CIL wrote:Posted By: Clay
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2023 at 11:11am
| Crecent Moon toilet never clogs and doesn't require a large amount of flush water. |
Posted By: ACinSC
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2023 at 12:16pm
| We have American Standard toilets in our house that we're happy with . Just may need to upgrade to chair height . So I checked these out . Seems crazy that the bone color is $100 more . Wonder why ? Thanks |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2023 at 12:17pm
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Replaced 2 of old units with Mansfield units and had first time log not go down the other night . Been real happy with the units being low water flush and also like the idea they have if you lift the handle during a flush it shuts off water going to bowl . Nice for the yellow flush - as only use 1/2 the water to clear bowl . ------------- Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2023 at 12:50pm
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2 things I know 1st, the 25 year old ,perfectly good, American Standard ALWAYS flushed EVERYTHING away with ONE press and NEVER left any 'residue' on the bowl.... 2nd, if you have more than one toilet in the house, get then ALL the same !!! A silly, 'that's not much', 1/2" distance in height can really throw you 'off your game' at 2 in the morning.... ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2023 at 12:52pm
I ordered some bone colored toilets last year for a customer. Took 3 months to show up. Bone has fallen out of the trendy colors. Biscuit or Linen are popular now . Not as dark as bone. Price those colors and see what you can come up with . This day and age if you want something that is not "mainstream" you are going to pay up . Give the corporations a reason to charge more they will. ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2023 at 1:47pm
For those stubborn logs, you can hold the handle down until a second surge happens, never had that second surge not clear a log. My kid on the other hand could plug an eight inch straight pipe somehow.
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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2023 at 1:48pm
No residue?! The 4th Marx Brother? Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Skid??? Come on now, you must not be eating right. Maybe no survivors. . . . but never residue??? Bah!
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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2023 at 5:21pm
| All five toilets here are Am Std. Taller height, elongated bowl and Guaranteed to flush most anything. Now skids are still a issue. Not ever seen a bowl not even in industrial wall mounts that would clean off smears!! |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2023 at 5:39pm
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All I know about plumbing is hot on the left, cold on the right, stuff runs down hill, and don't bite yer fingernails! Oh and I got yer credit card slot right here! ------------- Source: Babylon Bee. Sponsored by BRAWNDO, its got what you need! |
Posted By: DonBC
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2023 at 5:46pm
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I had trouble with two American Standard Champion(AS) WC's that I bought from HD about 5 years ago. #1 develop a crack in the bottom of the bowl and then a crack on the outside flange. Sent photos to AS and they sent a complete new replacement (#3). About a year later the front of the tank on WC#2 cracked. Fortunately an new tank had been included with #3. Last year the tank on the other WC#3 cracked. No more spare tanks, I noticed that the bowl of #2 had a crack so I bought a new #4 (not AS) took replace #2 and took #2's tank to replace #3's tank. I now search product reviews first before buying anything. ------------- Jack of all trades, master of none |
Posted By: fixer1958
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2023 at 8:03am
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What I know about plumbing is "chit rolls downhill and payday is friday". As far as the skid marks, that's what a good prostate or a young boy that can pee a 2x4 in half is for. Lost a bet with one of my grandsons. He was 5 or 6 and said he had to pee so I told him to go pee off the end of the porch. We were both along with his dad on the back porch. Then told him if you can hit your grannies lilac bush there is $10 dollars in it for you. My son told me it was a bad bet. It's 4' from the end. As luck would have it he soaked it down pretty good.
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Posted By: ACinSC
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2023 at 9:55am
| Thanks for the answer Pat ! |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2023 at 9:55am
| Our Am Std WC units are all Cadet 3 series, only one had issues with I broke the bowl. One in shop, four in house. |
Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2023 at 11:45am
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Al Bundy's was a Ferguson. |
Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2023 at 12:02pm
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Still happy with Mansfield 386 a year later, swallows everything I've shot at it so far. |