My firm, Clareo Partners, moved into our new offices this past February. The original owner (yes, it’s an owned condo) had installed the first generation of water saving “green” toilet with low water flow. The concept being that a toilet with low flow installed in every bathroom would reduce freshwater consumption. Great idea in general, right?
Of course, as is often the case, early adopter technology requires some bugs to be worked out.
The toilet worked, but unfortunately clogged with a frequency that would be uncomfortable when hosting as many guests and clients as Clareo does on a regular basis. Worrying about needlessly embarrassing a friend or guest grows quite tiresome rather quickly.
A week or so ago, with our annual holiday bash rapidly approaching, we decided to replace the toilet in the main bathroom with a modern updated technology, dual flush toilet (see my blog post mentioning them at the City Flats Hotel in Holland, Michigan.)
I purchased a Briggs Dual Flush Toilet from Chicago’s great Greenmaker Supply. For those of you in the Chicago area, planning on any sort of home remodeling project, Greenmaker is a fantastic resource for green eco-friendly supplies at prices that are normally competitive with the big box stores such as Home Depot, Lowes, and Menards. Back to the purpose of this post. When our plumber installed the new toilet, his observation without actual measurement, was that it looked to be the same flow as the original toilet that we replaced - NOT a happy report for me to receive.
Nonetheless, with just days to go prior to our holiday bash I made the decision to brave the risks. It couldn’t be worse than the original, merely more of the same merde!
Literally minutes before the first guests arrived, one of my staffers informed me that there was a problem with the toilet. Dreading what I would find, I ran across the offices to inspect the issue first hand.
Positive - the toilet worked as promised, with over 280 guests in attendance (and I am sure, of the percentage of that number using the bathroom, that a fair number of flushes both high and low flow, were performed over the course of the evening.)
Negative - the problem I found when arriving to inspect, was that the brand new toilet seat was broken at its stay bolts. Simple plastic fatigue? Poor engineering? I am really not sure, but luckily, I was able to have my staffer run to Home Depot to purchase and install an emergency spare seat.
I will be speaking to Greenmaker and Briggs this week, fully expecting a positive resolution to the matter of less than satisfactory seating, on an otherwise, high quality bathroom fixture.
Prediction
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