"Now that's a man's flush!"
Posted on 03/04/2025 5:42:08 AM PST by Jonty30
If you want to reduce your water usage, because you want to save some money or any other reason you wish, then you need to understand how to do that effectively. High pressure is more effective than low flow towards that.
It would probably pay for itself over the lifetime of the installation, so being able to pad your retirement income from the savings is a very good idea indeed.
Drill baby drill.
For one thing, if you can hear your showerhead talking to you, A) see a doctor, and B) it's not surprising that you read the Guardian.
Huh? As a plumber I found that baffling and nonsensical.
Water pressure regulators are installed to prevent damage from too high of water pressure, sometimes some areas have super high pressure, 90 is bad but 120 is terrible, the high pressure causes endless plumbing repairs, people love it for their garden hoses but it beats to death your shower valves, washing machine, dishwasher, ballcock etc., anything that has to shut off that high pressure.
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“Probably most easily done if you are building a house from the ground up.”
Good to incorporate a regulator as you are building of course, but we just install them in the supply line after the main meter and main shut off. It is actually fairly inexpensive and will pay for it’s self in just a few months. :)
You buy the toilet that flushes the way you want it to, or the shower head that runs the way you prefer, not based on the incoming water pressure to your house.
20 years ago I bought a house that had low flush toilets. I just started dating a girl whose dad owned a plumbing company. He dug out an old 5 gallon flusher from the warehouse. Bless him.
So I guess I am saying that if one wants to truly save water to a household as a whole,
What I was saying is that if you have the same toilet installed in your house as the one you have at work, you will have the same toilet and the same flush.
The cleanliness of the bowl after the flush is from the design of the toilet, toilets are rated on that wash down cleaning of the sides of the bowl and it is based on the design of the toilet, not the incoming water pressure.
Think about it. It is simple. If you turn on a sink faucet or water hose bib full flow, it will indeed push out more water at 90 psi than it will at 35 psi in that one minute.
I know it is counterintuitive because the flow orifice is still the same size. But seriously, try it... I found out when I lived off grid and had to haul and conserve water.
Dropping my pressure to 35 psi greatly reduced my overall water usage but we still had decent shower pressure. You will not see much difference between 120 and 90. But you absolutely will down at 35 psi.
“When I grew up we had a hand powered water pump in the kitchen.”
I stayed in an old family house like that for a couple weeks when I was a kid. Pumped directly from a stream that actually ran under the house. They built the house right over the stream back in the early 1900s so they could have the water pump in the kitchen.
Little coal mining town in PA called Arcadia. :)
The last one I bought the restrictor wasn’t removable. But I own a dremel tool...
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I can only state that the toilets at my work place are just toilets, but their water pressure is amazing and nothing stays if you flush right away.
Water faucets have built in restrictions and have since 1994, the gallons coming through them are limited by their construction, usually the aerator, just like a shower head.
The tub water flow isn’t restricted because it doesn’t need to be, nor does the toilet or washing machine, because when they fill they auto shut off, (the tub is turned off).
The problem is, The Drain Portal
Water that goes down the drain, is gone forever in the leftist sphere.
Corrilary (sp?):
Money down the drain? No problem.
I am fully aware and understand it fine.
Are they regular tank toilets like your home, or a pressurized tank that looks like your home toilet but with a little fatter tank, or are they the commercial toilets with a big chrome flush valve similar to the urinal flusher?
I have no idea, to be honest. but it looks like a regular toilet to me. Just a very powerful flush.
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