Then there are the low flow toilets. You have to flush them twice to get them to work.
Older toilets only need one flush.
[Then there are the low flow toilets. You have to flush them twice to get them to work.]
I drilled out the bowl fill tube orifice to put more water in the bowl during a tank refill between flushes.
Can’t modify all of them but did it on a Kohler Highline.
Gives you about another 1/4 gallon for a better flush.
Long runs of 4” lead caulked cast iron waste lines in some houses are really becoming problematic with clogging from these low flows. Not enough water to fully flush them out between flushes so it just builds back and clogs. One house I had to tear out about 25 feet of it and replace it with 4” plastic pitched higher to the house trap.
They could actually downsize to 3” now with the same amount of toilets on a line.
One customer that I did the above toilet modification for had clogs two to three times a year. Now none.
Absolute nightmare.
“Older toilets only need one flush.”
I looked in my tank, and there was plenty of space left when the tank was “full.” I installed a flapper assembly with a taller fill tube, and adjusted the float. That added a couple gallons to the flush. Works great now. The fill tube was for a French Provinchal (sp?) commode with a tall thin tank.
only twice?
Low flow toilets also need to be cleaned more often. Thank you Demon Rats for giving me more of this hated job.
Older toilets only need one flush.
I feel lucky, my toilets were made in 1984, flush like there is no tomorrow. Seven or eight ago, we bought a new Maytag washer and dryer set. Terrible, terrible, very little water during the wash cycle and the clothes all came out very wrinkled, the gas dryer barely dried. Replaced them a couple of years ago with refurbished Kenmore washer and dryer set made in the 1990s. Fabulous, washer fills deeply and really cleans clothes, and they come out unwrinkled. The Kenmore electric dryer works great!