Water Saver toilets

Jay wrote: Fun fact: in Indonesia toilets usually have a hose attached to the clean water feed, with what looks to be a kitchen sink sprayer on the end. What you do is, you leave your deposit, then grab the sprayer and give your black hole a good hose down. You only need one or two pieces of paper to dry everything off, and you're done. I'm installing that in my next house. It's brilliant.

Or, just run out to the kitchen.

Huh. My oldies worked good but I had to replace the seals between the tank and bowl. ~30 years of chlorine treated water will really mess with the seals. I replaced the bolt gaskets, the wax rings, the flappers and the valves all at the same time on both. I figured since I had them all apart I might as well hit everything all at once. Cost me ~$75.00 and a few hours, they work great.

Salanis wrote:

GameboyRMH wrote: WHY?

Because they like to be able to easily examine their stool.

When I was exposed to these things in Germany I figured that the Germans would rather deal with the shelf than waiting for the cold splash of possibly contaminated toilet water up the nether regions when the space capsule splashed down. Frankly, I thought they had a point...

And now it is plugged up. Tried the plunger, no good. Guess it means I'll have to find my snake.

Luckily my 45 yr old one upstairs still works fine.

I learned the hard way that some of these newfangled plungers don't work worth a E36 M3. (See what I did there? ) Like these:

The old reliable red rubber cup type seems to be the best, followed by the black cup type with the piece that sticks out.

Also in a pinch you can use the red rubber ones for CV joint seals on ice race cars.

I like the pressurised ones.. I have crohnes disease.. I sit on the pot a LOT.. so low flow is the way to go

I have the red rubber cup style. I'll keep the idea for the ice race cars. I may even pass it on ,on their web site.

Well, TOTO Drake II never disappointed me and my family. Personally, I chose this to avoid issues like that of yours and I've also read a lot of good reviews about it. Having it at home for several years now, just think how much money I've already saved due to its cost-efficiency. It only uses 1.28 gallons per flush compared to the other brands out there which uses 1.60 gallons per flush. And by the way, I recently found an informative review about toilets at https://www.jenreviews.com/best-toilet/. Hope this helps! 

Crappy canoe...

OK the duck thing took a while. Text from the link

Poland Dispatch: The German Poo-Shelf Toilet

Next to the infamous Squat-hole toilets of Asia and southern France, the German Poo-Shelf Toilet is undoubtedly one of the least pleasant methods of waste removal – assuming you’re like most folks and don’t feel the need to get to know your waste. It finds itself here in western Poland because this region was once part of Germany until the Germans got all riled up and tried to take over the world. They’re better now, but the legacy of their doody-tech remains.
The Poo-Shelf comes from a period in German history when Germans were less interested in world domination and apparently more interested in spending quality time with their feces. That, or they were prone to accidentally eating their wedding rings and needed a toilet that allowed them to conveniently rummage through their dung before dispatching it to the abyss. Those must have been fascinating times and I’m quite glad I wasn’t born in them.
I don’t know how many such devices are in existence. Perhaps they’re quite rare and I was simply lucky to stumble upon such a specimen. All I know is that upon encountering the German Poo-Shelf Toilet, one is forced to solemnly contemplate the reason such a horrible mechanism exists, and what demon designed such a thing.
Rather than whisking your waste away, the GPST simply lets it sit there, mere centimeters from your rump, so that you might think about the brief time you had together. When you’re done reminiscing – or when the odor of a pile of poop begins to negatively affect the ambiance of your bathroom – you simply pull up on the flushing mechanism to send your creation on to the Great Beyond. However, if the flushing mechanism doesn’t work – well, you’re on your own with a shelf full of poo and a toilet designed so as to render the plunger useless. Good luck and God bless.
It should also be noted that any gentleman who chooses to stand up and use the German Poo-Shelf Toilet for the purpose of bladder-emptying can be expected to enjoy as much splash-back as one might get from say, peeing on a coffee table. The toilet, in all aspects aside from cigarette butt and chewing gum disposal, is utterly useless.
Those who believe in intelligent life in outer space often say that any culture advanced enough to achieve space travel would probably not make themselves known to us until we too have reached a certain level of civilization. I take that to mean the elimination of war, and every German Poo Shelf toilet currently in existence. Although stopping warfare is a tall order at the moment, I encourage every able-bodied soul to grab a sledgehammer, get to Germany, and start swinging.