Imagine you’re out shopping, and you need to use the restroom. When you push the door open, isn’t it a massive relief when you find the restroom is actually clean and hygienic?
It’s natural to want a hygienic restroom, whether you’re in a commercial setting or your own home. That’s why responsible businesses clean their restrooms several times a day.
But cleaning isn’t the only factor in keeping a restroom clean. Did you know that your restroom fixtures can play a significant role in restroom hygiene?
It’s true. Pressure-assisted toilets, combined with the Flushmate I-Flush™ touch-free system and advanced coating technologies on the toilet bowl, can contribute to a restroom that doesn’t just look cleaner, but is actually less likely to breed germs. Here’s a closer look.
The Hygienic Edge of Pressure-assisted Toilets
Contrary to popular belief, toilets aren’t the primary breeding ground for germs. In fact, your desk can harbor 400 times as many germs as your toilet seat!1 But they can breed germs—and conventional gravity toilets potentially breed more of them.
With gravity toilets, water essentially just falls into the bowl, creating a siphon effect that pulls the bowl’s contents down the drainpipe.
Pressure-assisted toilets, on the other hand, force water into the bowl with compressed air, pushing waste out. They’re a powerful alternative to gravity toilets, because they almost never clog, they save water, they’re easier to maintain, and—most importantly, when we’re talking about hygiene—they stay cleaner longer.
Here’s how. The robust flushing power of pressure-assisted toilets pushes all the waste out on the first flush, instead of leaving some in the bowl. Plus, that extra flushing power lets water sit higher in the bowl, leaving less surface area where material can cling.
So, pressure-assisted toilets—sometimes called “power flush” toilets—don’t just look cleaner. They are cleaner.
Update: Flushmate just introduced the Flushmate 503UH—the industry’s first 0.75 gpf pressure-assist system, delivering all the benefits and power of pressurized flushing while using 53% less water than a standard 1.6 gpf gravity toilet.
Meet I-Flush—the Touchless Solution for Pressure-assisted Toilets
Every school kid learns the importance of handwashing, because it’s well-known that our hands tend to transmit the microbes that cause disease. It’s no wonder that the use of touchless technology has accelerated since the pandemic.2 People understand that the fewer surfaces they touch, the better their chances of avoiding germs.
This is especially true in commercial restrooms, where sensor-activated, touch-free faucets, soap dispensers, flushometers, and hand dryers have been growing more popular for years.
That’s why the Flushmate I-Flush is so popular for commercial restrooms. It offers a sleek sensor and flush module that transforms existing pressure-assisted manual flushing toilets powered by Flushmate into hands-free, sensor-activated units. It's the first solution to combine the power of pressure-assisted technology with the hygiene and convenience of automatic flushing.
Commercial restrooms that match I-Flush with pressure-assisted toilets make a statement to every visitor: We care about hygiene, because we care about your health.
Enhance the Advantages of Pressurized Flushing with SloanTec® Glaze
As mentioned above, the larger water surface and the powerful scrubbing action of pressure-assisted toilets give waste less opportunity to cling to the bowl. Those advantages are multiplied when the bowl is treated with a hydrophobic (water-repellent) and oleophobic (oil-repellent) glaze such as SloanTec.
SloanTec glaze physically changes the surface of vitreous china at a nanoscale level to repel liquids and waste matter. It also inhibits the growth of germs and bacteria, making the bowl easier to clean and keeping it cleaner longer.
When your pressure-assisted toilet also has SloanTec Glaze, waste doesn’t stand a chance of clinging to the inside of the bowl. That’s the biggest hygienic advantage your toilet can have.
Elevate Your Restroom Hygiene
Is hygiene a priority for your home or business? Talk to the experts at Flushmate to learn more about the difference pressure-assisted toilets can make.
1— The Independent, “Average desk contains 400 times more germs than a toilet seat, new research reveals,” March 2018
2—National Library of Medicine, “From luxury to necessity: Progress of touchless interaction technology,” October 2021