I have no experience of Kohler toilets. Our American Standard Champions
have never needed more than one flush: *everything* just disappears with
a "whoosh."

IIRC, the part in the middle of the tank is the "Flush Tower" in AS-speak.

It doesn't seem to me as though there is anything you could do to
improve the flushing efficiency. But how is the drain pipe? Any partial
blockages? Any venting problems?

IF the system cannot be improved, just settle for double flushing when
necessary. That would still be using less water than a single flush of a
4+ gal. toilet, and it's using that much only now and again. Most of the
time it's using only one-third as much as the old type.

Perce

On 09/07/05 04:43 pm Rich Heimlich tossed the following ingredients into
the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

I bought a pair of highly-recommended Kohler 1.6 gpf toilets. Both are
the first 1.6gpf toilets I've owned.

After a few months of use, I've found that basically, both of them are
great unless someone does more than urinate in the toilet. If they do,
the toilet requires pretty much two flushes. The problem is that it's
usually the next person coming along that finds this out and has to do
the flushing.

Obviously we'd like to address that. I opened up both toilets hoping
to just extend the left float device to allow more water into the tank
but find that both toilets have center assemblies (sorry, I don't know
the proper terms here) where the overflow goes that extend right up to
the lip of the water. Thus if I raised the float device, the extra
water would just flow into the center drain tube forever.

What is everyone doing to deal with this? Is there an extension for
the center assembly? Is there a better way?