American toilet design?

[Commander Kinsey]

Something must command the bowl to empty first.

OCD gone WAY too far.

[Commander Kinsey]

Link?

[Commander Kinsey]

But breathing inhales the substance which has evaporated. That's what a smell is.

[Commander Kinsey]

That's more modern than my toilet, mine still has some ridiculous siphon system in the tank - which means if you don't pull the handle hard enough, it can actually "stall" mid flush. You'd think a dump valve (or flapper as they call it in the video) was a pretty simple piece of kit.

[Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)]

Mine does that and its almost empty!

On the news today, a manufacturer of toilets is selling sloping ones to businesses in the UK as tests have shown that this makes the legs ache and hence people spend less time away from their job. Interesting concept, but surely the real pro will be prepared with a couple of rubber blocks for under the front of the seat. No good if you cannot read at least some of the paper in there.. grin. Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)]

Oh and I deleted the crosspost as it just attracts naredowells from Trumpland onto here. Brian

[Commander Kinsey]

There will no doubt be a public outcry and it'll be deemed against human rights or some such nonsense.

[Tim Streater]

Syphonic toilets are available in the US, or were when I lived there.

And of course they refill with water, and they don't splash that badly. The ones that have the ledge stink, of course.

[Commander Kinsey]

How does the syphonic system work?

Maybe the Germans all have a scat fantasy?

[Commander Kinsey]

Mr Trump is no different to Mr Johnson.

[micky]

Do you mean the trap, that is part of the toilet? I think even european toilets have that.

I haven't got the strength to read the whole thread, to see if someone already said this, but ....

My brother bought a fancy house, or his wife had it somewhat remodeled before they moved in, and it had fancy toilets with only a small amount of water in them, a pond instead of a lake.

And every time I used one, after I flushed, it was still dirty. Happens one time 10,000 with an American style toilet. Two out of 3 times with these.

I have Eljer toilets which afaik are not expensive, and they don't have this problem.

Someone told me that European toilets use water speed to flush, and American ones use water volumne.

If I had had an designer or anyone I paid who advised me to put in such a toilet, I would have screamed bloody murder afterwards and wanted him to change them at his cost.

[Commander Kinsey]

Who?

[Commander Kinsey]

What?

[alan_m]

The European continental style toilets with a platform at the front of the bowl may prevent splashback when you have a dump because the shit remains on the platform for inspection! If paper is not first put down on the platform the flush moves the shit to the outlet leaving skid marks.

When having a piss it's OK when aiming the stream at the bowl outlet but once the stream ends up in a dribble than it hits the platform and it results in urine splashback!

[The Natural Philosopher]

A smell means somethimg from the obect has entered your nasal packages. Does a virus smell?

[John]

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[Roger Hayter]

Did you ever come across WRAS in your work? Building regs require an air break for toilets. A check valve is insufficient. Could be done with a separate header tank plus or minus a pump, but it is a lot more expense and things to go wrong.

[Max Demian]

The flush doesn't feed directly into the "toilet water" - at least not usually. Doesn't the bowl provide the air break?

The drinking water is already contaminated by the foetid dishcloths hanging from the spout.

[Tim+]

No. That have the ?normal? amount of water in the U-bend.

There?s some truth to that. Siphonic systems are still common in the US. Some of the water from the flush tank is directed down the soil pipe behind the first u-bend creating suction that draws the waters and stools from the pan down and around the U-bend. After the U-bend has been ?sucked dry? it?s refilled by water descending from the flush tank in the conventional way. There are other siphonic systems but they operate in similar ways.

Some reading for you here.

I?ve never seen a pan that is ?fuller? than a normal non-siphonic pan before the flush (except when the soil pipe is partially blocked).

It makes for a quiet powerful flush but uses more water, which is why I imagine you can?t buy a new one in the UK.

Tim

[Roger Hayter]

Not according to the regulations. Consider explosive diarrhoea.