remember this ?
this shot was taken just this morning...
when I was rejoicing about having my TP holder...
functional...and in the correct place...
once again...
[remember the relationship...
between the location of the toilet...
and the location of the TP holder...
just, remember... OK ? ]
there was a brief moment of silence at the final flush...
yeah...silence...
because the noisy, leaking pump wasn't refilling...
then, out it went...
and the new one, that's been sitting...
in my living room, in 2 large boxes, for months...
got assembled and mounted...
and then the oak seat[with chrome hardware...]
was affixed...
and it's in !
the 2 big boxes left a nice gap in the DR...
[but the contents sure filled the bathroom nicely...]
the empty boxes joined the old toilet on the porch...
[the staging area for the dump...
and... no...the seat was NOT worth keeping...]
and that 1st picture you were supposed to remember...?
this toilet is 18+" high...
[my knees are 18" high...]
it is not only much easier to "rise" from...
the correct TP holder placement, is now perfect...
if you look back at the old toilet...
which was barely 16" high...
and really hard to rise from[for me, anyway...]
the TP holder seems "high"...
here, it's "just right"...
t'is a far, far better commode...
I go in now, than I have ever had before...
t'wil be a far, far better "comfort"...
I have now...than I have ever known..."
[with massive apologies....
to Charles Dickens...
& "Sidney Carton"...]
3 comments:
Every time I go into Lowe's, the plumbing section seductively whispers "Comfort height toilet" and my knees respond "Oh, yes!" However, there is one drawback. It's known as my husband. We have the old, 1960's pre-water saver toilets, which work like a charm however "challenged" they are in their duties. We owned a new house once with low-volume flush models, which were constantly getting stopped up and the very dickens to be plungered clear. So he says a hearty "NO" to changing the toilets since you can't buy the large tank ones ones anymore. I wonder if you can bolt an old flush tank to a newer tall base if they're both American Standard? And is the bowl large enough to hold that volume of water when it flushes? I need a plumbing specialist!
I have a question - would it have been possible to adjust the plumbing so that the toilet sits against the wall where the vanity is and faces the shower? It looks like there would be more knee room that way.
...knee room is NOT a problem at all... the pedestal sink solved that problem...this new toilet not only is a comfort height one...but has "power flush"[1.6gal of water] the design of the bowl & waste channel coupled with the force of the water, is quite impressive....
check it out for yourself...Kohler's Memoirs toilet with comfort height & power flush... I paid about $250 online...[2 piece]
I wouldn't even try to marry the old & new technology...
they would probably leak as the design of the tank to bowl is radically different...
as G said...[re power flush...]
"this is really different..."
a much bigger, stronger pump & very quick refill...
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