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High volume flush toilet

  • 04-02-2022 4:26pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭


    Just wondering if anyone can recommend an old style toilet where the volume flush was much greater than the typical eco flush toilet nowadays?

    Previous owners made a balls of many aspects of building this house and sewage pipes are another one , I find myself using sewer rods about three times per year but was told a higher volume flush would help .

    I know toilets of old used double the volume of water

    Recommendations welcome

    Thanks



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Bigger cistern basically?

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,052 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    I'm pretty sure hotels and commercial premises have larger than domestic but no idea how easy they are to buy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,176 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    You'd need to replace the toilet too. As we reduced the amount of water used to flush a toilet they made toilet bowls to suit less water flushing. If you put a 10 gallon cistern on a modern toilet, the water won't flow though it fast enough most likely.

    As for where you would get, that's a good question. I'm not sure you can buy them now. Simplist thing is to go to a plumbing trade counter and see if they can order one in for you.

    If all else fails places like Mac's Salvage in Islandbridge Dublin may sell them 2nd hand



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    I've two screws at the bottom of the cistern and while they appear tight ,I've a leak, will regular silicone do to seal around the washers where screw goes through?

    Removed toilet yesterday and put back, no problem bar this ,it's an extremely slow leak



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,662 ✭✭✭Kat1170


    Careful if you just use a bigger cistern, if you're toilet blocks it could overflow.


    Get a silicone that you can use on wet surfaces. Takes a bit longer to set but should seal the two screws.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    got that leak sorted with silicone and toilet worked fine for ten days but had another block today , took out pipes externally ( 1970,s bungalow so not exactly a perfectly subtle finish ) and what was blocking the toilet was nothing bar some toilet tissues and not even a large amount.

    honestly think the design of the toilet is the problem , the area where waste escapes to the drain pipe must be too thin or restrictive , i think this is the issue rather than the flush volume

    anyone got any recommendations for a toilet with a more open neck between bowl and sewer pipe ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,662 ✭✭✭Kat1170


    Is it from B&Q ??

    Have one from there and it's on the list for being changed. Few bits of toilet paper is enough to block it. Useless.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,777 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    You can increase the volume by fitting a pipe on the overflow pipe at least that’s what I did when installing a new toilet last year.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,777 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan




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