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We have a 20+ year old house. A while ago we added wainscoting to the front bathroom (and updated the faucet), but hadn’t made any other major changes in years.
Original 1980s toilet
Well, between the current drought in Northern Nevada and the toilet having flushing issues we decide it was time to replace the original toilet (that used about 3 gallons per flush) with a new toilet.
You would think this was a pretty easy change, but we had to do some investigating to find a toilet that would fit our requirements:
a) Round bowl – Even though our home was a custom home built on spec (built between customer orders to keep the crew busy) the builder did not believe in large bathrooms. I know of a few houses in our area that were built by him – I am wondering if we all have small bathrooms (the floor in this bathroom is about 6′ by 6′).
b) Bone colored – Our bathtub and sink are bone colored so a white toilet just wouldn’t look good.
We finally figured out we could order a round bowl, bone colored toilet (that had good reviews) online at Home Depot. We had the toilet delivered to the local Home Depot store so we could verify that it was in perfect shape before we brought it home. This is since we had tried to order a round bowl, bone colored toilet from a BIG online place about a year ago. We had that one delivered to the husband’s work (luckily) since it was shattered when they took it off the deliver truck (it was packaged in only the vendor’s original boxes). The one delivered to Home Depot was in perfect condition and the original boxes were actually packed inside another box with extra packing!
So, we bought an American Standard H2Option Siphonic 2-piece, dual flush (0.8 GPF or 1.2 GPF) toilet, bone color and round front
Model 2889.216.021
It had 192 reviews and was $256.01 plus tax.
The handy husband installed it about two weeks ago and it works great! It is really quiet when it flushes and since it uses less water per flush you don’t get burned if someone flushes while you are in the shower (a bonus we didn’t even think about).
New American Standard Dual Flush toilet
The new toilet tank is physically smaller than the original tank. We kept the tank of the old toilet since I want try use it in the garden, but the husband smashed the old bowl (took one swing) and the pieces were put in the bottom of a tall planter outside.
In part two of the front bathroom remodel I will show the new flooring we also put in. (If we were going to the work of replacing the toilet we decided why not change the original vinyl out at the same time.)
What remodeling projects have you taken on lately?
Later – H
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