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Do Americans have pressurized toilets?

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Two low-flows in the house, one is lower-flow and smaller than the other. The lower-flow sucks and you need to flush twice for practically everything. The other one works fine and is perfect first flush most of the time.

Depends on design - there is some engineering behind these things. Newer tech = do same/more with less. Brute force is sweet though...
 
My office has a low flow that can't handle the job. You have to flush it three times to take a whole dookie. However, I think it's more to do with the building's plumbing. When we moved in, the place had a lot of issues. The landlord had hired some rubes to renovate the place, and they did a royally shitty job (no pun intended). I don't think it's draining properly. I kind of came to that conclusion after they somehow backed up the sewer when they were doing a reno on the unit next door. They cleaned up but the bathroom stank like shit for days.
 
Oh I forgot to mention where I used to work, the toilets were awesome! I'm pretty sure a flush broke the sound barrier. Those things were insanely powerful. In fact I'd test them out. I would poop, not flush, and then wipe until I'm clean. There would be a mountain of toilet paper covering a large turd. I would flush, stand back (they did splash back quite a bit) and watch in amazement as it swallows the whole thing up in one shot. They had like a 1 inch pipe going to them, that's a lot of flow. Pretty sure they had some kind of vacuum system too. Guess being a hospital, they need powerful toilets.

I even wonder if it broke the light barrier. You could probably time travel with those.
 
ive see more toilets with that pressurized tank thing in them. a little too loud for my taste in a home but powerful/efficient nonetheless
 
the DRIZZLE said:
When the low flow toilets first came out they were terrible. Then they came out with pressurized models that were better but they have parts that need to be replaced periodically and the water pressure needs to be within a certain range. The new top of the line gravity low flow models do just as well as the pressurized ones.

My toilet can flush 17 golf balls!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQLPXImsHQk
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This what your 17 golf balls will do to your plumbing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63MHwyhzpnM
 
Ichinisan said:
That's one of the most horrible things I've ever seen. I can't believe that person didn't try to prevent it from reaching the carpet.
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I have literal nightmares about overflowing toilets. Literally. Imagine being in a small room with no way to escape the effluence. Imagine. 😱
 
Ichinisan said:
That's one of the most horrible things I've ever seen. I can't believe that person didn't try to prevent it from reaching the carpet.
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What happened to our own mother's toilet was worse... remember? She tried to get the neighbors to stop using theirs because it was causing 3" of shit slime in her bathroom (shared septic tank) and they shrugged saying something dismissive like "we have to wash our clothes," as if that made it OK to fill your neighbors home with shit.
 
Installed a new American Standard 1.6gpf toilet about a year ago. It has never clogged up. It flushes better than the old one by far.
 
Some of the old "high flow" toilets weren't any good either. They slowly dump gallons of water in the bowl, and it just sort of swirls around in there and eventually makes it all the way down if you're lucky. If you're not, well, it might end up outside the bowl. Just ask my brother, the one at his house is pretty worthless like that D: It is on the "to replace" list! The bad tub and shower plumbing was first.

Then you have ones like at my parents' house that just shoves all 3-4 gallons down the bowl at once with such brute force that it practically never clogs 😀

I think the best however was what was in the bathrooms in my dorm when I was at college. They were made by Crane Plumbing and had these highly pressurized tanks. You barely would touch the handle and it would feel like it was going to suck you down the drain with everything else 😱 What I don't want to know is how the girl down the hallway somehow managed to plug one up 😱 😵
 
I miss having a pressurized toilet. Having to flush multiple times is for chumps.🙁
 
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