The first practical flush toilet was patented in 1778 in Yorkshire, England. Fast forward 102 years and Thomas Crapper, the son of a steamboat captain and a journeyman plumber, began to popularize the flush toilet. Crapper sold toilets 125 years before MaP ratings were invented to the most critical buyers of his time, the English royal family.
Since 1880 billions of toilets have been sold without MaP certification. The Manufacturer’s knew that if their toilet didn’t flush away solid human waste, they wouldn’t sell. Then in 2003 hell broke loose. Did it really? Na, that’s an overstatement. Did your toilet back up in 2003? No? Same here. It kept right on flushing away in spite of the the flushsble diapers, and a whack of other flushables. Still people don’t come up with standards for no reason.
MaP exists because a group of companies who make toilets were stampeded into changing their design overnight and the designs were bad, so the toilets clogged. Was this whole thing was a scam? Did 6
liter toilets have no other history before 2003? Of course they did.
Holland has been using low flush toilets for over a generation. Are the CEOs of all the North American Manufacturer’s incompetent? Not on your life.
So one is left to wonder, with the toilets already well designed and in use for 30+ years elsewhere, how did highly competent North American toilet factories get so screwed up? Was it deliberate?
Couldn’t they have imported from Europe or Australia for 6 months as their own production got ramped up? Was the failure intentional with the thought being that a bunch of deliberately faulty toilets could be sold and replaced thus doubling profits? We’re more moral than that, aren’t we? You decide.
Assuming everyone had the same good intentions, to conserve water, the actual toilets wasted:
tax money,
consumer money,
plumbers time,
installation money, and
They actually used more water because multiple flushes were needed.
Even the cartoonists who make “King of the hill” made an episode about it.
Those badly made toilets need never have existed nor did we need to create MaP tests to prove they do. All anyone needed was a simple dual flush toilet valve which costs a fraction of what a new toilet costs and reduces water use in a toilet by 40%. With Selectaflush a sane toilet flusher can reduce the average flush size to 7.8 liters in an existing 13 liter toilet.
Selectaflush dual flush mechanisms are in use all over the USA and Canada now and customers are saving money and the environment without replacing a single toilet.
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