Fighting Our Flush Fixation (No water in toilets to flush)

The Washington Post ^ | Saturday, June 3, 2006 | Elizabeth Williamson

[Snoopers-868th]

How do you disable it--I want to do it too?

[B Knotts]

Toilet testers strive to come out No. 2 (Dave Barry)

[dalereed]

There is fewer of the 3.5 toilets all the time because people are falling for the water co. rebates but I still change them out.

Anyone in the San Diego area that wants an older one, let me know and i'll save one.

It's too much trouble to try and sell them or store them if I don't have someone that wants it.

[EricT.]

When we moved into our new home in 1998, I had disabled the commie, low-flush feature before the dishes were unpacked. I then went around the block showing all the new neighbors how to do it.

You mean the lousy toilets required by lousy California state law?

[IronJack]

What the enviro-bats refuse to understand is that wastewater is never really polluted. All the contaminants -- unless you're pissing mercury or trivalent chromium oxide -- can be removed with little trouble and the water -- often cleaner than the destination into which it is discharged, returned to the water table.

I pass through the pores of oceans and shores,
I change but I cannot die.

-- Shelley

[Hardastarboard]

I am such a sick puke. Your post literally made me laugh out loud.

[JasonC]

Nicely put, lol.

[JasonC]

Two? Try eight, plus manual labor a third of the time. It is just one of the stupidest ideas in human history.

[ElkGroveDan]

You mean the lousy toilets required by lousy California state law?

Yes, those.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Thanks, it is a s----- job but somebody has to do it.

[hardworking]

Screw the low-flush toilets...when I build my house I'll install a NORMAL toilet...every low-flush I have seen needs TWO flushes to work....

Yeah, I said the same thing when we built our house. But try to FIND a 'normal' one! Thankfully, on the internet I found 'America's best flushing system' by American Standard and paid the extra to get a low volume but EFFICIENT toilet. Good luck.

[hardworking]

They ended up compromising to have some sort of regular plumbing, too, in order to appease the union

LOL - Picture the Democrats at their convention with the plumbers' union bashing the tree-huggers over the head with their plungers. Gotta love those libs!

[hardworking]

Tell me you live in Berkeley......?

[hardworking]

If you can't do any of the above, keep a plunger next to every toilet and make sure your family and guests know how to work it, because those commie toilets are ALWAYS clogging up.

There IS a solution folks - put these into our new house - do a Google search for 'American Standard Americas Best Flushing System' and click on 'see the Champion in action' and watch them flush lots of little rubber t**ds - it's a hoot but it really does work.

[hardworking]

Here I go again - Google 'American Standard Americas Best Flushing System', then click on the 'see the champion in action' and watch the video - put these into my house and they work great.

[Spunky]

"Screw the low-flush toilets...when I build my house I'll install a NORMAL toilet...every low-flush I have seen needs TWO flushes to work...."

We had a toilet that was from the 70s lots of water, but my husband has, shall we say extra large and long ones. He was always plugging the toilet and we would have to get the plunger out. We heard about the AMERICAN STANDARD (CHAMPION) very little water and works on some sort of suction mechanism. They demonstrate by flushing a dozen golf balls and a long plastic tube. When we remodeled last year we put one in and there has been no plugged toilet since. YEH!

[Spunky]

AMERICAN STANDARD (CHAMPION) Low water and works on some sort of suction. Takes large (you know whats) down and no more plugged toilets.

[Thumper1960]

If your low water crapper won't push the scat that far, enlist a local Greenie and stuff the overage in his/her pocket and have them take it to the sewer.

*There oughta be a law.

[gigo]

I recently stayed in a Hotel (Holiday Inn exp., Isle of Palms, SC) where they had these little plaques on the tank with a plumber in a wetsuit with the caption "Don't make me come up there".

Below it said something like. "These low water usage toilets clog easily, so flush early and flush often."

Now tell me how this is green? These crappers probably, in the long run, end up using more water than the old un-green jobs.

[libstripper]

I couple of years ago I was on a trip and stopped at a Motel 6 that had the water pressurized low flush toilets. The one I had worked very well, no complaints, but was quite surprising to use. When I flushed it there was a sound like a firecracker going off, the handle jumped back in my hand, and all the waste vanished. A contractor friend of mine later told me those units cost about $400 apiece, compared to about $100 for a conventional toilet.