When toilets try to save money by reducing the amount of water they use per flush, but you end up having to flush like 3 times 🤬

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    22 hours ago

    Half as Interesting has a video about low flow toilets. When the US passed the 1992 regulation limiting the amount of water a toilet could use, manufacturers rushed to meet the regulation and their designs were terrible. That’s mostly because the quality tests they had to pass were also out of date. Testing standards eventually updated and by 2003 low flow toilets were flushing better than old models with a fraction of the water. More recent models flush even better.

    So OP’s complaint about low flow toilets hasn’t been true for 22 years.

    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caOP
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      20 hours ago

      My toilet is newer than that (and also I don’t live in the USA), so idk what to tell you.
      It could just be a poor toilet (I didn’t buy it), or a plumbing issue (I live in an apartment), but if I flush once then stuff comes back up, and simply using more water fixes it so i assume it’s a flow issue