Reviews of WC's

wota crappy thing to talk about ;o)

To be honest, I couldn't give a s*it

:-)

You've got to be taking the piss?

I thought they were all bog standard.

Good site - it appears that we are happy to put up with crappy designs that might look good but lack some good features.

John

I think you have a very good point. I put in a new bathroom suite last year and got a new wc from Bathstore.com. Can't remember exactly which model it was now but we bought it as it looked nice and modern. The wc has a large sloping area at the front leading to a small "drop zone" towards the back. Basically the drop zone is too far back and too small which means we have to scrub the pan pretty much daily to keep it clean.

I should have asked for a test drive first.

Nodge

this thread is rapidly going down the pan!

We are finding similar problems with our Catalano toilet from Bathstore. Very expensive, very nice to look at, but need cleaning after every no. 2!! With this toilet the drop zone is too far forward and your faeces land on what is almost a shelf! To make matters worse most of the flush shoots about 1/2" over said shelf leaving half the s*it behind!

I hope you get to the bottom of this, and that it doesn't drive you potty.

wooooaah! way too much info ;o)

Always try before you buy.

I have to agree, there are times when I would like to purchase items but then find that they are never reviewed! I have a bugbear at the moment about thetford portapottie toilets for caravans. they are ridiculous! they are only suitable for children or small framed females! they are like toy toilets! I have emailed thetford about this..but am not holding my breath that they will do anything about it. people just put up with stuff. it maddens me sometimes. anyway, trying to find reviews on these things and it looks like no one has ever reviewed one.

Steve

That would go down well in their nice shiny showroom!

When I was wandering around Wickes looking for a new loo, I found one in the showroom where someone had...

In the end, went for a cheap B&Q one, which doesn't suffer from the various problems outlined in this thread, although it is only a 6l flush. Don't bother with the toy seat B&Q provide to match it though -- get a proper one. Oh and make sure the cistern has a standard sized hole for the ball valve inlet -- there are some around which don't, and it's nearly impossible to find a replacement ball valve which fits them.

Fortunately, I managed to mangle the thread on the supplied ball valve inlet, which gave me the excuse to replace it with a Fluidmaster one (and it was a standard sized hole).

A lot sold in the sheds (and upmarket!!!) shops are C**P. the ones from reputable manufacturers in plumber's merchants will /probably/ be better. It's impossible to tell without a longtest drive, so a review site would be useful. My downstairs one (from a shed) seems to be basically ok, but only if a piece of porcelain had been put on the other way round. As it is it does not wet the rear of the pan, but splashes out into the middle of the water, doing no good at cleaning up the residues.

Like the children in the shop window.

Someone did post a favourable reference here a while back to the 'non-stick' surfacing offered on some B&Q suites (and no doubt elsewhere). As another poster says a byproduct of the reduced flushing volume now allowed is a narrower throat with consequences that need not be described.

All this irrelevant fuss about WC pans!! - the *real* action (so I am told) occurs at the urinals.......