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Retired[_2_]

On 4/20/17 1:28 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 11:35:23 -0400, Retired wrote:

On 4/20/17 9:13 AM, philo wrote:
On 04/19/2017 07:56 PM, Retired wrote:
On 4/19/17 8:38 PM, philo wrote:
A friend of mine is paying a plumber to try to rebuild her 1950's
vintage maroon toilet.

I told her to just replace the thing but she says she likes the color,
it matches her sink and that same color is no longer available.

I decided to look on-line and was shocked to see Kohler actually has
toilets selling for as much as $6000.

(Maybe the plumber who tried to sell me a $2000 toilet last year was
not as crooked as I thought.)

Anyway I was kind of surprised that not only could I not find anyplace
selling a maroon toilet, I was also surprised at how for a company
that sells toilets if that price, there are only ten choices for
color.

This is one insane world

As long as the porcelain is intact, it should be no problem
"rebuilding".

We have a sky blue 1955 toilet that works just fine with all new
"innards". Also it matches the sink and tub.

Would like to get a new seat & lid, but only available on-line, and
color is tough to match on-line.

Part of the problem is the lid is broken in 12 pieces, they were
planning on gluing it back together which is going to be a mess.

I guess that's not my problem though.

Maybe they could make one out of a nice piece of wood (2x10 ?) and
stain it to look nice, or paint to match ?

Because of the grain, you will find wooden toilet seats are made from
at least 4 pieces glued together.

I assumed that it is the tank lid that is broken in 12 pieces. If it
is the seat&lid then I would just buy a new wooden seat in a dark
stain color to go with the maroon.