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The frighteningly loud flush

Posted 12.23.2002 by Dave
Sanya Dunn has some unusual advice for first-time visitors to her home: Don't be afraid of the toilet.

"It's kind of loud, and it can scare them," says the 37-year-old homemaker and animal-rescue volunteer in Upland, Calif. "You can't prepare them enough."


Plumber Norm Block of Wynnewood, Pa., has clients who should have heeded those words. A few years ago, they ended up in the emergency room with a visiting elderly aunt after her first trip to the bathroom. She had reached back to flush the toilet before getting up from the stool, he says. Big mistake. "She thought the thing was exploding," Mr. Block says. "She fell off the toilet and right into the tub," breaking a kneecap.

A new type of toilet is shaking things up in bathrooms across the country. Equipped with something the industry calls "pressure-assisted flushing systems," the toilets use a burst of compressed air to force water through the bowl. Powerful and conservation-minded, they are now in more than 3.5 million homes and offices. They have just one drawback: a startlingly loud flush.
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healthy 1 (1426) -- 10.15.2006

The noise is the number one reason I wouldn't even consider a pressure flush toilet for my house.

My bedroom is right nextdoor to the bathroom, and my headboard to the bed is right in line with the toilet in the next room. My preference is the high velocity flush. These toilets are less noisy but, slightly less powerfull as well. They do still pack one hell of a flush though.
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runninggrrl2 (170) -- 10.15.2006

I sort of like the idea of using less water for the flush, but I don't know about the super loud flush. I'm always paranoid about flushing at night when I'm at someone else's house because you never know if the flush will be loud enough to wake people up or not. I wonder if these high pressure toilets get clogged quite as easily or not.


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The Shit Volcano (3770) -- 10.15.2006

Hmmm. This might be an idea for my next toilet. I have to replace both the toilets in my new home eventually. Since I live in the country, in a desert with a well, water conservation is a big issue. Perhaps one of these will help my well shoulder the load!

Loudness is not an issue with me. In fact, it may cure my cats from harassing me on the can. I can just see the cat fits now!

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GottaGoGirl (2616) -- 10.15.2006

I dunno, TSV. When that toilet starts waking up the baby, I'd be pissed off.

The Shit Volcano (3770) -- 10.15.2006

That baby sleeps through nuclear warfare! Though, I suppose now that I just said that, he'll change his mind tomorrow.

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healthy 1 (1426) -- 10.16.2006

Yeah, less water is a good idea. I have a high velocity flush in my house. These use 1.1 gallons of water vs 1.0 gallons in the pressure flush. The high velocity flush is hard to find though. It has seven dime sized ports under the front of the rim. When it flushes, it sends a huge jet of water straight down at the trap. Mine also has a larger than normal drain hole. A soda just fits through the hole.

Even the HV flush is noisy, but not like the BP. The HV is about as noisy as a 1960's gravity toilet.

As for clogging a pressure flush toilet. Yes it can be done. I cclogged a pressure toilet with a hege turd once. When they overflow, there is no way to abort flush, as the pressure flush uses a sealed system.
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Anonymous Coward (not verified) -- 10.16.2006

Guess now you know why they used to be called thundermugs.

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