On Sun, 17 May 2009 13:41:13 -0500, Steve Barker
wrote:


I've never heard of a "noisy" toilet.

Yean, but there were certainlly quiet toilets. More quiet than 95+% of
the others. The one we had until we moved when I was ten was so quiet
during flushing. My father must have paid extra for it. The tank was
very short, at least 10 or 12 inches shorter than most toilets, barely
reached above the level of the bowl (not counting the seat, of
course), and it was shaped like a Milk-bone dog biscuit, so I guess it
made up for the lack of height by a bigger cross section.

I don't know if they still sell these or not.

A friend has one, not the new lo-volume kind, in her one-man office at
work, and its just as quiet. I told her if they were remodelling, I'd
buy it, but I know her boss, her uncle, and he's not remodeling
anything unless it's broken. (And I live alone so it's not like
anyone is waking anyone up with a noisy toilet. Although the refilling
annoyed me, so I turned the valve behind the toilet down so that the
water enters at a very low rate and doesn't make any noise.)

And i've had real good luck with
the american standard 'wellworth' model of toilets. If you want extra
water down the hatch (which our 6 have never needed) you just hold the
handle down.

Really! That works on all of them or you're just vouching for
wellworth?


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