CAn Anyone please Recommend a Good Toilet?

Barking_Boy

Hi can anyone recommend good sanitary ware for my house we are placing our upstairs and downstairs bathrooms totally....With the toilets I'm after strong flushes with large valves and trapways.

The basins strong sturdy square and most of all deep..

Thanks

Barking Boy

PS Been to Wickes, Homebase not impressed so far....

iamcornholio

A good toilet? I dont think I've ever come across a bad toilet, they all just seem to work

pimento

If I were to replace a toilet, my top of the list must have would be that it took a standard size replacement seat.

The one currently in my bathroom is a special shape and no seat fits it.

Ectophile

iamcornholio wrote: »

A good toilet? I dont think I've ever come across a bad toilet, they all just seem to work

Not in my experience. There are ones that block too easily. Ones that don't flush sufficiently so you have to flush twice.

Then there's the clever but fiddly and unreliable push button system that they seem to fit to most modern cisterns.

I'd like to update my bathroom sometime soon, but I have no idea how to find a good, well-designed and reliable WC.

ali-t

The house I moved into has the ones with the large square shaped bowl and only a small space at the bottom with water. For anyone that doesn't have near perfect poop aim, its a messy business. If I had to choose I wouldn't pick that shape of toilet bowl.

iamcornholio

Yon need to try before you buy

Leif

iamcornholio wrote: »

Yon need to try before you buy

Do the showrooms allow that?

Some water saving ones have a bad flush which requires several tries, and then lots of bleach shoved down, so despite the fact that they are supposed to be water saving, they are really the opposite.

There are variations in baths. If you have a shower, some say you need a thicker plastic.

usignuolo

Lots of modern toilets have small water basins - its the way they design them now. The other thing to look out for is the flushing mechanism - we had two new loos from BathStore a couple of years ago supplied with some fancy syphonic valve which broke on both within a year. Had to get in local plumber to install something more oldfashioned and robust.

Hintza

I took weeks to decide on my new throne an in the end got this monster The Laufen LB3



or with hiden cistern

Barneysmom

When we changed ours I made sure I got one with a proper handle flush, not one of those with the push-button on top of the cistern.
Some of the flush problems are because of the thick loo roll we all use now.

Hintza

Barneysmom wrote: »

thick loo roll we all use now.

What thick toilet paper? I must be missing something, doesn't everyone use Andrex..:)