Do Americans have pressurized toilets?

[ThatsABigOne]

I shit everyday so I do not have issues with low flow toilets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5qMbk5mL24&context=C3dc0b6fADOEgsToPDskL7t6T4ZRc0Xkl60DlPipN4

 

[zerocool84]

Had an older low flow that would get clogged easily but bought a new toilet 1yr ago and it hasn't flogged yet.

 

[natto fire]

Not much in single family homes, but they are all over the place in hotels/big buildings.

 

[Imp]

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...

 

[FoBoT]

I thought poop was a banned subject? Not that I'm complaining. lol

plumbing thread -> manly

 

[Analog]

international space station does.

 

[dud]

I typically flush my toilet 2 or 3 times per dook, even then it clogs pretty frequently. Contractors used to save high flow toilets when they pulled them out of old houses.

Thank you for sharing this with us ...

 

[Red Squirrel]

My toilet is 6LPF and I never managed to clog it, yet. Like processors and Ghz, LPF is not everything, I guess.

 

[caddlad]

that is what katana are for.

FTFY

 

[mmntech]

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.

 

[Red Squirrel]

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.

 

[Ichinisan]

I haven't had any problems with the low flow toilets these days. I haven't had to plunge a toilet in at least 5 years.

I thought you were in China?

 

[RelaxTheMind]

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

 

[Born2bwire]

I thought you were in China?

....Yeah about that. Well you see, HEY WHAT'S THAT!!!!

/me runs

Hmmm... You know, I don't know how much those tanks held but I've been in the States for part of that those five years.

 

[FelixDeCat]

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

This what your 17 golf balls will do to your plumbing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63MHwyhzpnM

 

[Ichinisan]

This what your 17 golf balls will do to your plumbing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63MHwyhzpnM

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.

 

[FelixDeCat]

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.

I have literal nightmares about overflowing toilets. Literally. Imagine being in a small room with no way to escape the effluence. Imagine.

 

[IronWing]

When my toilet plugs I want to beat the shit out of it.

 

[CZroe]

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.

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.

 

[LTC8K6]

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.

 

[SparkyJJO]

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

 

[Howard]

I link this page at least once a year.

http://www.terrylove.com/crtoilet.htm

 

[ViRGE]

I miss having a pressurized toilet. Having to flush multiple times is for chumps.