Why not Toto with CEFIONTECT bowl finish
Don,
It may work for you, I find that the bowl is a bit shallow toward the front and that the tank has some glitches with it.
Golf balls are really not a good test, nobody does that anyway.
I worry more about the "stuff" that is causing clogs.
Some toilets will bounce the balls right down the trapway, but hang on paper fairly easily.
I sell and install hundreds of the Toto every years with almost no problems.
The bowls on the G-Max and Power-Gravity are deep enough, with a good consistent flush. MaP testing gives the Drake 900 grams, as compared to the 475 to 575 of the
Champion.
Even the one-piece Ultramax does 700 grams.
by the way, The
Drake and the
Ultramax can be gotten with CEFIONTECT finish in the bowl, cleaner and more sanitary. I sell a lot of those to doctors.
Here's a recent email sent to me:
"I bought a Champion last November ('04). I thought I was going to get paid back pretty quickly from the water savings, but last week I noticed water dripping from the tank. I called my plumber, who has been super to me for 7 years, and told him the brand new toilet was dripping. I was assuming the guy who'd installed it had been in a hurry. He arrived and mumbled about the "darn channel bolts," which he said were a pain.
After he left there was one flush without the loud clunk, then it went back to clunking as usual. I am hesitant to lengthen the chain as some are urging to get rid of the clunk because it seems you sacrifice the water conservation: that
is why I got the darn thing in the first place.
Today I noticed that there is a steady drip inside the bowl (on the left side, just as the drip from the outside of the tank was on the left side). Is this the famous gasket problem?
Should I order a pair of gaskets?
Does American Standard pay plumbing bills? When the plumber comes to install the gasket, I will have paid for three housecalls since mid-November."
E. Nobbe Sun, 20 Mar 2005