rmac-aquia
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Installed yesterday, works great.
A bit of info that might be helpful for diy'ers. My install required me to drill the holes in concrete. The instructions say explicitly that 1/4 inch holes are needed. This has to be a typo, at least for the hardware that came with my unit. The 4 larger bolts were 1/4 inch in diameter and the anchors were 3/8. NO WAY can those anchors be stuffed into a 1/4 hole. I tried 5/16's ... still too tight and finally drilled the holes to 3/8 and that was perfect.
The 2 smaller screw's needed a 5/16 inch hole.
This costed me several trips to the hardware store as I tried to figure out why those anchors would not fit.
So check your hardware before drilling larger holes, but if you are prepared to do so, it may save a good deal of time.
Also, be prepared with a longer supply line than you probably have, depends where your shutoff valve is relative to the back of the toilet. My hardware store had several lengths, but none of the toilet lines were long enough (I think 16 inchs was the max). I had get a union compression fitting to splice 2 lines together to make one that was long enough.
Complete Instructions for the Aquia written by Jamie
A bit of info that might be helpful for diy'ers. My install required me to drill the holes in concrete. The instructions say explicitly that 1/4 inch holes are needed. This has to be a typo, at least for the hardware that came with my unit. The 4 larger bolts were 1/4 inch in diameter and the anchors were 3/8. NO WAY can those anchors be stuffed into a 1/4 hole. I tried 5/16's ... still too tight and finally drilled the holes to 3/8 and that was perfect.
The 2 smaller screw's needed a 5/16 inch hole.
This costed me several trips to the hardware store as I tried to figure out why those anchors would not fit.
So check your hardware before drilling larger holes, but if you are prepared to do so, it may save a good deal of time.
Also, be prepared with a longer supply line than you probably have, depends where your shutoff valve is relative to the back of the toilet. My hardware store had several lengths, but none of the toilet lines were long enough (I think 16 inchs was the max). I had get a union compression fitting to splice 2 lines together to make one that was long enough.
Complete Instructions for the Aquia written by Jamie
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