Dirk Strider
New Member
I just unboxed my new Kohler Highline toilet from HD and am noticing a faint urine smell on the base.
Inside the bowl, at the very bottom where it enters the trapway, there are little particles, like loose specks of cardboard. The same area also has a light blue stain, like some toilet cleaner solution had sat there. Also there's some fine, darker blue dust in the flush valve inlet, where the water comes in from the tank.
The urine smell is faint enough that I suppose it could be how new toilet-bowl material smells, and the blue stain and dust might just be manufacturing byproducts. But since this is my first new toilet, I don't know if this is normal or not. Also, the tank was wrapped in plastic, the base was not, which supports my suspicion that the base might not be new.
Here's an image of the bowl and here's an image of the flush valve inlet.
Have some of you seen things like this before in a new toilet, or did I get someone else's returned toilet?
Thanks for your thoughts.
Inside the bowl, at the very bottom where it enters the trapway, there are little particles, like loose specks of cardboard. The same area also has a light blue stain, like some toilet cleaner solution had sat there. Also there's some fine, darker blue dust in the flush valve inlet, where the water comes in from the tank.
The urine smell is faint enough that I suppose it could be how new toilet-bowl material smells, and the blue stain and dust might just be manufacturing byproducts. But since this is my first new toilet, I don't know if this is normal or not. Also, the tank was wrapped in plastic, the base was not, which supports my suspicion that the base might not be new.
Here's an image of the bowl and here's an image of the flush valve inlet.
Have some of you seen things like this before in a new toilet, or did I get someone else's returned toilet?
Thanks for your thoughts.