Feb
2008
I haven’t talked much about IBS
February 22nd, 2008 at 07:57 pm by wRitErsbLock in UncategorizedI really haven’t posted much at all about the International Builder’s Show we attended last weekend. I don’t know if you’re upset about that or not. But I feel like I owe you a potty post from IBS. Last year, you may recall, I had RTY pose on a potty for you. Not so this year. In the ginormous booth, they had exquisite bath tubs, fancy schmancy kitchen faucets, all manner of sinks, and that loud guy who does infomercials (Willie Maes?) loudly preaching the benefits of various potties.

Seriously, he had inflated balloons (”we call these floaters, and we all know floaters won’t flush”) that he dropped into one of the working models and flushed them down. He was a very enthusiastic toilet sales man. The “green” trend in toilets, of course, is dual flush toilets. Press one for number one and two for number two, and different quantities of water are utilized to flush. I have seen this in use at the IKEA stores.
And now, a humiliate-my-husband picture at the urinal display:







Your 2¢
A Green Trend? Dual flush toilets are a trend? Where have you been, asleep under a log? Caroma, tha Australian cased toilet and sink manufacturer , invented the dual flush washdown flush toilet 25 years ago. Now Caroma maintains an 85% market share in Australia and New Zealand. Heck, the American “King Pin” Kohler had to pull out of the Australian market.
In fact, there are more dual flush toilets sold world wide that the American style “siphonic flush” toilets so many Americans are accustomed to. In fact, you can flush a baseball through a Caroma toilet because the trapway is 3.4 to 4″. This is something no other toilet can do.
Caroma only makes water conserving toilets and in fact has more toilets on the EPA Watersense list that Kohler, Toto, Sterling, and American Standard combined.
Dual flush toilets are not a trend.
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