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Product Review: Sam's Guild Chinese Turbo Toilet--"Toilet in a Box"

One of our ii 25+ year-sometime American Standard toilets cracked its tank a couple weeks ago. Lucky someone was home and heard it and was able to plough the water off. It still made quite a mess... It seems one of the tank-to-basin mounting bolts had loosened over fourth dimension and the other tweaked the tank and croaky information technology at the bolt pigsty.

Hoping to relieve some money, I posted an advertizing on craigslist for a tank with no replies in the solar day or so earlier the married woman started actually nagging me near the MIA toilet. I guess ane toilet wasn't plenty? I threatened to put up an outhouse if she didn't leave me lone.

So a replacement toilet was "on the list" and I happened to encounter Sam'south Lodge's "Toilet In A Box" on the shelf while doing some other shopping. Information technology was $102. Included everything including all hardware, wax ring, stainless water claw-up hose, seat, etc. A central betoken was that it was "elongated" , same as the loo it was replacing. It also has a "dual-flush" arrangement (#1: ane.1gpf, #2: ane.6gpf in gallons or 4-6lpf in litres) and it is "water-saving" in both flush modes. Of note is that is it ADA height xv" vs thirteen" "normal" height. Information technology is also fabricated in People's republic of china.

Home DeLowe'south was around the corner so I checked out their offerings and determined a cheapy was about $ninety and a decent was $150 or so. They did not have a dual-flush model in stock so a quick telephone call to the married woman and it was back to Sam's to selection up TWO toilets. 1 for at present and one to supersede the other 25 yr-onetime in the other bathroom.

The new toilet installed easily plenty as I've installed dozens over the years. It took a fiddling fine tuning to get the "push button-rods" adjusted to the correct length to flush the toilet. Only one time in place and "tested" it seemed similar it was going to be a keeper.

This feeling lasted for an hour or and so, until I noticed some water in the grout under the basin towards the rear of the unit of measurement. Not even enough to rising to the level of the tile but it was at that place. WTF, I thought, I must have tweaked the band when I put information technology in and at present it's leaking. Disconnected the toilet and looked at the lesser and the ring was fine and had not been leaking. HMMMM????? I noticed the tiniest fleck of water at the very dorsum underneath the bowl elbow. So I reinstalled it and flushed it a few times then propped the toilet upwards with a couple 2x4s and looked underneath with a mirror. Sho' enuf, it was leaking from the bottom, nowhere near the wax band. Fortunately, we had the other toilet and I used the bowl and ring from it. Fifty-fifty with that toilet, there was a little area underneath I didn't similar the looks of so I sealed the questionable surface area with epoxy just to be on the safe side.

When I returned the lacking basin, I was able to keep the tank and valves for my efforts and then now I have spares. The tank comes completely assembled with new-fangled flush and fill up valves.

So the leaky bowl was the only problem we experienced and other than getting used to the different flushing dissonance and "push-push" operation, both toilets have been functioning perfectly. Of note is that the included seat is a inexpensive plastic unit and were replaced by $13 woods/enamel versions.

The flushing racket isn't actually loud, just dissimilar. Closing the lid helps a lot. And the bowl is much smaller than an older unit. It sometimes requires unscheduled cleaning if debris striking the dry side of the bowl (before flushing) and "stick" in that location. And from flush to fill end is about 12 seconds for the 4l flush and xviii seconds for the 6l flush. The quondam toilet took nigh a minute then that took some getting used to. I have been using the #ane button (4l flush) for all but the largest logs and information technology does the fob every time.

Cosmetically, the bowl doesn't seem perfectly symetrical compared to the seat and the hat/tank fit is very poor. I'd requite this toilet a 3.5 out of 5.

PS: our other quondam toilet ended upwardly having a crack in the tank as well, didn't notice until I brought it outside.

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