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Can we talk about Toilets?

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Basil said:
Here I sit on the inaugural test of the second new Toto! A selfie probably not appropriate.
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Gliderman8 said:
The world’s largest plumbing manufacturer. 5.2 BILLION in sales.
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When I see numbers like this, it makes me wonder - how many NEW toilets are needed every year? What has happened to the existing toilets? Is there that much new construction going on? Are people really, really hard on toilets? Enquiring minds want to know! :D I have designed and the company I worked for manufactured boxes for Elkay Mfg. Elkay makes sinks. Many different styles and sizes of sinks. And similar to Toto, the numbers are astounding. And again - how many NEW sinks are needed every year, etc., etc.
 
Silverghost said:
When I see numbers like this, it makes me wonder - how many NEW toilets are needed every year? What has happened to the existing toilets? Is there that much new construction going on? Are people really, really hard on toilets?
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In our case it was just a matter of the toilets we had were getting long in the tooth (20+ years old)! Our old toilets were constantly needing to be fiddled with and they also used a lot of water when flushing. This Toto Drake only uses 1.28 gals (compared to over 4 gal) per flush. I suspect these new toilets will pay for themselves with washer savings in just a few years.
 
Silverghost said:
When I see numbers like this, it makes me wonder - how many NEW toilets are needed every year? What has happened to the existing toilets? Is there that much new construction going on? Are people really, really hard on toilets? Enquiring minds want to know! :D I have designed and the company I worked for manufactured boxes for Elkay Mfg. Elkay makes sinks. Many different styles and sizes of sinks. And similar to Toto, the numbers are astounding. And again - how many NEW sinks are needed every year, etc., etc.
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Think globally... I bet many underdeveloped countries are still playing catch-up with sanitation products.
 
Gliderman8 said:
Think globally... I bet many underdeveloped countries are still playing catch-up with sanitation products.
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Not to mention there is a continuous stream of people with older homes doing remodels. Wasn't too many years ago we did a total remodel of our kitchen, which of course included a new sink.
 
without getting political (please)

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and note that the article is seven years old - yes there is the issue of entire Chinese communities sitting vacant but, just there, that's a lot of toilets! (and also a sand shortage which boggles my mind)
 
They own the Gobi Desert, don't they?!?!
 
JPSmit said:
without getting political (please)

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and note that the article is seven years old - yes there is the issue of entire Chinese communities sitting vacant but, just there, that's a lot of toilets! (and also a sand shortage which boggles my mind)
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Geez, this thread is really going to pot! :LOL:
 
Basil said:
In our case it was just a matter of the toilets we had were getting long in the tooth (20+ years old)! Our old toilets were constantly needing to be fiddled with and they also used a lot of water when flushing. This Toto Drake only uses 1.28 gals (compared to over 4 gal) per flush. I suspect these new toilets will pay for themselves with washer savings in just a few years.
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Only 20+ years old? It took us 60 years to get around to replacing our harvest gold one.
 
John Turney said:
Only 20+ years old? It took us 60 years to get around to replacing our harvest gold one.
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harvest gold that's because ..... umm never mind. :ROFLMAO:
 
So there I was sitting on the newly christened throne, when in comes the wife yelling about a rattlesnake being outside in the yard.

Sure enough, it was about a 4 foot rattlesnake right in between a couple of juniper trees. Before I could get a shovel to decapitate, he had disappeared into some nearby bushes. Will have leave him for another day.
 
Shovel to smack it with?? I'd have figured that in the SW you'd be out there with an old Colt single action going after it just like in the old western movies...
 
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