Squat toilets?

[BLSTIC]

Flushing ability has more to do with cistern height than anything. It's not about volume flushed but flow rate. Kind of like expecting to be able to flush a poo with a piss, a slow flush is useless. Think of water blasters using next-to-no water compared to a hose

[freebeard]

Toilet tanks used to be on a 3 or 4ft standpipe with a pull cord on the lever. One wonders why they didn't return to that design with the low flow models.

[BLSTIC]

I thought that was negative though?

[Stubby79]

Originally Posted by BLSTIC

Flushing ability has more to do with cistern height than anything. It's not about volume flushed but flow rate. Kind of like expecting to be able to flush a poo with a piss, a slow flush is useless. Think of water blasters using next-to-no water compared to a hose

That might be why the flapper valve is raised a number of inches off the bottom of the tank. The water below that point will never leave the tank...couldn't figure out what the point was. This is a good theory.

As of yet. I have yet to be able to slow it down, let alone plug it...quite impressed.

[Xist]

I could ask my new landlord about raising the tank and putting in a padded backrest, but it would probably make more sense to ask what he wants to do before he installs the new toilet sitting in a box.

[stovie]

Xist, if you still have access to the old toilet, you could take the tank and see what happens when you fill half the waters area with cement or something lighter to drop the amount of water in tank by half while still getting good hieght and use a 4 inch pipe to keep the cement away from the flushing components. Then you put some little pieces of angle iron at the top of the pipe to give the water a twist to try and get it to shoot through the toilet faster!!

Then you take the composting toilet seats with the separate part for pee that then runs down a 1/2 inch pipe through the toilet so it doesn’t use any water for that anymore?!?