Thanks for all the info
Looks like I might have to import - toilet technology seems to have stood still for 50 years in the UK. Hope I don't get arrested for installing an illegal foreign bog!
Thanks Peter
I'll check those models
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You might get lynched for being a top posting bastard though
61 million brits seem to be able to cope with what's on offer here
He missed "dead otter"
Gone backwards, actually, I think. Assuming the criterion is the removal of waste from the bowl and nothing else.
Pete
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Have arses evolved much in the same time;?...
Please keep us posted.
A French friend is still looking for a German-style bog to install in the UK. No luck so far, I'd be interested to find useful sources.
I bet that average arse-girth in Florida shows quite a climb over the last 50 years!
Andy Dingley wrote: > A French friend is still looking for a German-style bog to install in
He might have to pop over the water. I've seen them in Holland...
Andy
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"Chocolate Soldiers" are missing.
Rob
Bowl or bowel?
Are these on a log scale?
I can understand why the French friend doesn't want a French bog: I worked on a place in Southern France and it had 5 loos, with 5 ways of filling and
5 ways of flushing and all of them had faults.
I thought that was part of the problem ...
A squat with a hole in it - can't beat it
Don't forget - left hand only ...
The Medway Handyman coughed up some electrons that declared:
"Captain's Log: Still trying to flush it away..."
harrods one
The jetflush seems to be standard in the parts of the US I go to. I don't recall one with a cistern though -- they mostly seem to be direct mains with a timed flush valve.
You could try going back 50 years, to a high level flush. I always rather fancied the idea of a high level flush with the cistern in the loft, giving you the combined benefit of no visibile cistern, and powerful flush.
As to why toilet technology is so far behind here, I saw a program about this, probably 10 years ago. This is the case in all countries where a different family member cleans the loo from the family member who is most likely to buy a loo. In very many countries where the same person both cleans the loo as is likely to buy a new loo, toilet technology is decades ahead -- things like non-stick coatings were, even back then, standard for a decade or more, and still unobtainable here. There was a UK company manufacturing advanced toilets, but ISTR they didn't even try selling them here -- they were all exported.
One of our toilets is amazing. Whether it's due to having a flap valve instead of a siphon I don't know. Does the flap valve variety allow a larger bore? Anyway, the pan can have so much turdminations and paper that no way would you expect it to flush away first time, but it does maybe 95% of the time. Unfortunately I can't see any names on it.
One of the best I ever used was a replica of a Victorian model. Circular bowl. High level cistern. When the water was released it swirled round the bowl like a maelstrom.
(Might have been a 'based-on' rather than a strictly accurate replica. No idea as it was in a friend of a friend's house.)
Many blame present day low flush volumes for poor flush. Well, at home we have little problem with up-to-date designs. At work we have things that seem to flush a couple of gallons - and they are dreadful. So I shall hold on to my view that it is the combination of cistern, bowl and even the drain beyond - not just the flush volume.
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