Well, I've replaced the water supply, the tank ball and siphon, run every limescale solvent I can think of through the siphon from the tank to the little holes under the bowl rim, plunged the bowl 's drain repeatedly, scoured the holes with a wire bristle brush under the basin rim _and_ inside the basin, and augured it now ad nauseum.
Each time I think I've conquered the no-flush problem, it will flush twice and then simply swirl the water about the basin.
I thought as much. The previous toilet I had for over two decades before the tank developed a crack down the middle. I NEVER had any issues with it, not even one mis-flush. This new-and-improved toilet is costing me more in water than ever its predecessor did.
GAH!
I'm off to check out the jet-pumps for residential models now. Maybe, just maybe, that'll help...
It's worse than you think. Simultaneous with the government mandating low-volume flushes, another agency of government is "encouraging" (we haven't gotten to the "mandate" stage yet) eating more fruits and vegetables.
Now a diet high in fruits and vegetables creates more "floaters" than the "sinkers" we're used to seeing in a high meat diet. It is these "floaters" than interfere with the goals of a low-flush toilet.
The solution is simple: ignore the government. You can do this by either a) Finding a legacy (six gallon) toilet or b) Eating more meat (yum).
Toilets: Was in Middle East recently in an area where they tend to use European design toilets etc. Also water systems tend to be low capacity, low pressure (There were no fire hydrants in the city I visited!), with storage tanks on the roof of each residence. In the hot sun even white painted tanks got quite hot! Seemed very odd when the 'cold' water came out hot! Added to which the hot and cold tap positions were sometimes reversed to what we normally use in north America!
One variety toilet had chrome button on top. Press it lightly was supposed to low flush. i.e. if one only 'p**s' (thereby supposedly saving water!). Pressing it fully was supposed to do a total flush.
However; frequently found that either the low flush didn't really do the job and/or the total push didn't do a total flush either! So quite often, but not all the time, another flush was necessary and that second time one would tend to press it all the way down to make sure. So there were a percentage of times that one was causing at least one and a half flushes per throne sitting!
I have similar reservations about mandating the replacement of 25 cent incandescent light bulbs by CFLs. Any 'wasted' heat, in our case, merely contributing to heating the home off setting our electric heat! It's all electrcity anyway.
What about in the summer, when you're paying for cooling and your lightbulbs are just pumping out heat? I switched years ago, and it's been great. The lights aren't hot, the energy usage is much lower, and the bulbs last for 5 years. What's not to like?
Is that the stuff that pops and boils when it touches water? Kind of brownish color you can buy in the drain-clearing area of the hardware chemicals section?
If so, I have a bottle that was hoping to use while I ran some errands...
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