"petercharlesfagg" wrote in message
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My wife and I as we increase in years find it more and more difficult
to use these low profile lavatories.

They may be all the vogue and an essential for 'modern' homes but are
the very devil to stand up from as the joints sieze up!

We have been looking and asking in B&Q, Bathstore, Homebase, General
plumbers etc. to obtain the old, dare I say it, 'Bog standard loo'!

Nobody appears to stock such items any longer!

Can anyone suggest an online supplier, we have tried using Google etc.
but it always comes up as the so called 'modern' design!

Regards, Peter Charles Fagg

We bought a cheap ceramic dual flush lavatory from Aldi (I think) and when
it was taken out of the box it looked much lower than the original 1937 one
which used a lot of water for the flush and had a cracked basin.

When Spouse installed it I took a picture to prove to him that it WAS lower.

He measured the height to prove me wrong. Both models were exactly the same
and neither of us has had a problem rising from it.

It was a special so might not be available again, it's certainly not a stock
item, but it shows that sensible height wcs are still being made.

Incidentally I had a letter from the water company today. Since we installed
the lavatory we've used so much less water that our payments have dropped
considerably, the cost of the wc will be recovered in a few months - not
that we care about that.

Mary