Most contractors and building managers don’t even think twice about toilets during a renovation. It’s too easy to just keep the toilets that are already there, or to specify the same kind of toilet.
But if you’re involved with a renovation, you really ought to rethink your toilets. Whether we’re talking about an apartment complex, a hotel, a restaurant, an entertainment venue, an office building, or even single-family homes, making the right decision on toilets now can save significant money and headaches down the road.
What’s the right decision? Pressure-assisted toilets. Here are four reasons they’re the right call for your next renovation.
Reason #1: Forget about Clogged Toilets
Clogged toilets aren’t just a messy nuisance—they’re an expensive, messy nuisance. 86 percent of Americans say a clogged toilet negatively impacts their perception of a business, and maintenance staff spends untold hours unclogging them.
Pressure-assisted toilets are much less likely to clog, because they exert far higher water delivery force on solid waste than ordinary gravity toilets.
With a gravity toilet, water essentially just falls into the bowl, with the force of the falling water creating a siphon effect that pulls the bowl’s contents down the drainpipe. A pressure-assisted toilet uses compressed air to force the water into the bowl, pushing waste out.
This flushing force can improve drainline carry—the distance a flush propels waste matter through a drainpipe under test conditions—by up to 50 percent. So things that clog gravity toilets simply get forced down the drainpipe by a pressure-assisted toilet.
Long story short: You’ll get far fewer clogged toilets.
Reason #2: Save Water
Pressure-assisted toilets need less water to achieve the same (or greater) flushing force—they’re effective using as little as 1 gallon per flush (gpf), while gravity toilets often use 1.6 gpf or more in older models.
Pressure-assisted toilets are also less likely to need double-flushing, because waste is pushed out on the first flush.
So any facility installing pressure-assisted toilets can expect to use less water, and those water savings can be significant. One apartment complex in Baltimore reported a 57% average drop in daily water usage and a 46% average reduction in water costs.
Reason #3: Make Maintenance Easier
Another benefit to pressure-assisted toilets is that they have fewer moving parts, so they’re extremely durable, and most of the serviceable parts are easy to replace.
Combine that durability with the big reduction in maintenance calls to unclog toilets, and facilities renovated with pressure-assisted toilets will likely see far easier maintenance for years after installation.
Case in point: The manager of those Baltimore apartments estimated that the combined savings from lower water usage and reduced maintenance calls would deliver an ROI less than 24 months from installation.
Reason #4: Keep Toilets Looking Cleaner
Businesses such as restaurants and entertainment venues often can’t have maintenance staff cleaning toilets during peak hours. Yet guests will judge them harshly if they see messy-looking toilets.
Pressure-assisted toilets keep toilets looking nicer in two ways. First, the extra flushing power allows water to sit higher in the bowl, reducing the surface area where unattractive material can cling. That keeps toilet bowls looking cleaner.
Second, because all the water in a pressure-assisted toilet tank is contained within an inner vessel, you won’t see the “sweating” on the exterior of a tank as you might with a conventional gravity toilet.
Cleaner toilets mean visitors will be less likely to get a negative impression from their restroom visits—and management will have one less thing to worry about.
Flushmate® is the Preferred Choice of Installers and Users
Pressure-assisted toilets make sense for almost any renovation—and for new construction as well. And the more toilets involved, the more sense they make.
If you’d like to know more, you should know that Flushmate is the preferred choice of installers and users around the world when it comes to pressure-assisted toilets. Some of the biggest names in the toilet industry, such as Sloan®, Gerber®, Kohler®, and others, rely on Flushmate technologies.
Make pressure-assist toilets with the Flushmate system part of your next renovation, and you may never specify an ordinary gravity toilet again.
Are pressure-assisted toilets right for your next renovation? Talk to the experts at Flushmate!