Dual back-to-back tank-in-wall wall hung toilets in 6" wall

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Hello all,
I have a mid-70's slab house with two small bathrooms separated by a 6" stud wall. I'm in Texas, and during Hurricane Harvey my home morphed into a U-Boat. I was looking at bathroom fixtures, and liked the residential wall-hung toilets because of the clean lines and the huge space savings from the tank being located in the wall. I liked the Toto line, but could easily be convinced otherwise.

My problem is getting 2 tanks into the wall. Unless I'm missing the idea, no product seems to directly address this.

Any good U-Boat needs 2 ballast tanks, right?.....

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Dave
 

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The wall-hung guts take up the space in a 2x4 wall completely. Back to back, you'll need to fir out one side to get two units inside the wall, back to back.
 

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Thanks very much for your suggestion. I could fir out one wall by 2" to make room for the tanks, as you said. However, I wouldn't know how to plumb the pair of separate 4" waste lines with the tanks and toilets being so close together. Is there a special fixture that would handle this situation, and also route the vent so it wasn't bumping into the two tanks?

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The vent goes to the side of the tank. These have a 3" drain, and many fittings are available depending on what your existing plumbing looks like. Is this on a concrete slab, over a crawlspace, or on a second story?

 
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We have a number of wall-hungs in our beach house. To my mind, the Toto Aquia wall-hung bowl is the best. Performs most "normally", cleans the bowl well, looks good. The Toto tank system is flexible and works well.
 

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The bathrooms are on the ground floor of a concrete-slab home. I've pulled the two toilets, but have not jacked any concrete. There's a 3" vent line coming out the concrete a few inches to the side of where the two waste lines intersect, so I suspect that a double 90 bend was used as the connection. There is no 2nd floor continuation of the waste line, it services only the ground floor (i.e. there's no stack upwards).
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Toilets back to back without the proper fitting will push water out of the opposing bowl during a flush.
Newer toilets flush much quicker and need better ways of plumbing them in to prevent the water in the bowl from disappearing.
 

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Terry,
Sorry, I included the picture of the double 90 bend because I think that's what's under the concrete now. It's got to come out, along with the short runs up to both toilet flanges.
If I pack 2 Toto in-wall tanks into the same 8" wall space, then there's going to be a pair 3" waste lines coming down vertically side-by-side. To mate up with the existing 4"waste line, I need a fitting that might look something like this:
Thanks!
Dave
P.S. Thanks for the great installation video of the Toto unit. Very helpful!!!

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I know this is an old thread but I have the exact same issue but over a crawl space. Is there a purpose made fitting available for this situation?
 
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