davidz
New Member
Hi,
We’re in the middle stages of a bathroom remodel, and we’ve found that, given the slightly odd structure of the area to which we are moving our toilet (long story, including electrical, ducting, and stud placement), the only place for the supply for that toilet is directly behind it, i.e., on the centerline of the toilet, about 5 inches from the floor. The contractor has not yet installed the valve (there’s just a ½” capped copper pipe right now) and he put the drain at 13 ¼” center from the wall, to provide us some options.
We were eyeing the Toto Ultramax (we’re interested in 1.6-gal flush, one piece, no power-assist), but the specification sheet of this toilet indicates that we’d have problems with where the valve is, because the drain goes pretty much as far back as the tank on this particular toilet.
This leads to two questions:
1. Are there recommendations for low-profile valves or valves that turn 90 degrees? Our contractor doesn’t think so; he says that the best we can do is the standard ones that we see in our local hardware stores, which protrude almost three inches from the wall.
2. Because we'd like to keep the tank as near to the wall as we can (less than one inch preferred), can anyone recommend any other 1.6-gpf one-piece toilets that flush well? We've eyed the Toto Carlyle, but this seems to have the same clearance in the rear near the floor.
Thanks!
- David Z.
Toto Carlyle
We’re in the middle stages of a bathroom remodel, and we’ve found that, given the slightly odd structure of the area to which we are moving our toilet (long story, including electrical, ducting, and stud placement), the only place for the supply for that toilet is directly behind it, i.e., on the centerline of the toilet, about 5 inches from the floor. The contractor has not yet installed the valve (there’s just a ½” capped copper pipe right now) and he put the drain at 13 ¼” center from the wall, to provide us some options.
We were eyeing the Toto Ultramax (we’re interested in 1.6-gal flush, one piece, no power-assist), but the specification sheet of this toilet indicates that we’d have problems with where the valve is, because the drain goes pretty much as far back as the tank on this particular toilet.
This leads to two questions:
1. Are there recommendations for low-profile valves or valves that turn 90 degrees? Our contractor doesn’t think so; he says that the best we can do is the standard ones that we see in our local hardware stores, which protrude almost three inches from the wall.
2. Because we'd like to keep the tank as near to the wall as we can (less than one inch preferred), can anyone recommend any other 1.6-gpf one-piece toilets that flush well? We've eyed the Toto Carlyle, but this seems to have the same clearance in the rear near the floor.
Thanks!
- David Z.
Toto Carlyle
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