Replacement Toilet Lids and Seats - Don't buy a new toilet until you read this: Not all toilets give same performance - This Old Toilet 800-658-4521

Testers compared 2  brands of toilet with same price tag and found drastic  performance differences.  CR photo

When you make changes to your bathroom, the toilet is an important part of the equation. What is there to consider? The shape and style, right? And whether it will fit the right distance from the wall. But oh, there is so much more!

Consumer Reports tests to see if toilets effectively wash away debris, whether the bowl is left clean after a flush and how water-efficient they are.

What makes one toilet better than another? To illustrate, CR selected two toilets that cost the same - $150. But one is a recommended model, and the other has the lowest score in their ratings. Why?

The Mansfield Alto got only fair marks for waste removal. In several tests the sponge debris stayed in the bowl.

But the Delta Prelude does its main job very well.

And how clean is the bowl surface afterwards? One CR test is to draw a water soluble marker ring around the inside of the rim, to see if one flush can wash it away.

The Mansfield bowl was only “fair,” with markings left behind after each flush. A good performer has the power to rinse away most of the debris, most of the time.

The CR recommended Delta model did an excellent job powerfully rinsing the ring away.

And when you shop , check out the efficiency rating. The Delta uses less water than the Mansfield - just 1.28 gallons per flush versus 1.6 gallons.

If you have a toilet from before 1990, you can save 19 gallons per person, per day by switching to one with the EPA’s WaterSense sticker on it.

And to find out if yours is leaking and needs to be fixed or replaced, put a few drops of food coloring into the tank. In 15 minutes if there is color in the bowl - you’ve got a leak.

source: http://komonews.com/news/consumer/dont-buy-a-new-toilet-until-you-read-this-not-all-toilets-give-same-performance

by consumer reports

Replacement Toilet Lids and Seats - Tokyo is upgrading airport toilets with voice guides for the blind and waiting areas for service dogs - This Old Toilet 800-658-4521

In preparation for an expected 40 million visitors during Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic games, the Japanese government has launched a national toilet improvement campaign.

A good restroom is a high expression of Japanese hospitality or omotenashi; in 2015, the national government established an annual “Japan Toilet Grand Prize” to encourage innovations in toilet technology. The new campaign focuses on public facilities, and aims to redesign “comfort rooms” for all types of users from around the world.

Japan is already world-famous for its high tech Toto washlet toilets—a delightful self-cleaning unit with heated seats, dryers, and deodorizers. But the government’s challenge in preparation for the Olympics is to rethink the entire experience—from mitigating lines in bathrooms to standardizing toilet icons.

In preparation for an expected 40 million visitors during Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic games, the Japanese government has launched a national toilet improvement campaign.

A good restroom is a high expression of Japanese hospitality or omotenashi; in 2015, the national government established an annual “Japan Toilet Grand Prize” to encourage innovations in toilet technology. The new campaign focuses on public facilities, and aims to redesign “comfort rooms” for all types of users from around the world.

Japan is already world-famous for its high tech Toto washlet toilets—a delightful self-cleaning unit with heated seats, dryers, and deodorizers. But the government’s challenge in preparation for the Olympics is to rethink the entire experience—from mitigating lines in bathrooms to standardizing toilet icons.

Tokyo’s Narita airport is the first to be overhauled for the Olympics, with its “total toilet makeover” drive. New “designer restrooms” opened at the Narita International Airport earlier this month, featuring not the singing toilets, beeping bidets or sanitary wipes for smartphones that have awed visitors to Japan in the past, but rather thoughtfully-considered accessibility features.

Two new bathrooms in Narita’s Terminal 2 include a voice-guidance system that talks blind users through the space, and a light alert system to help signal to the deaf in emergencies. There are also designated double-wide stalls for travelers with service animals. These pet-friendly units have leash hooks, pet mats and cans for dog waste disposal, Japan Times reports.

“We decided to equip all bathrooms with universal design and renovate the toilets as well,” Naoki Ohata, spokesperson for the Narita Airport. Universal design means eliminating barriers for the most number of users. Universal design touches (pdf) in Narita’s airport restrooms include:

Directions for visually impaired

Braille and tactile information panels

Toilet bowls with handrails

Hooks for putting canes and umbrellas

Space for putting belongings

Lowered washbasins

Wider stalls so you can change clothes

Children’s toilet facilities

Wheelchair compatible toilets

Emergency alarms

Ostomate facilities

Beds

Narita has earmarked ¥5 billion ($46 million) to refurbish the airport’s remaining 148 bathrooms. Japan’s busiest international hub also announced plans to phase out traditional washiki squat-toilets in favor of traditional Western-style units.

Even after the Olympics, these improved facilities will be vital to Japan’s increasingly infirm population. “Japan is working to make cities more accessible and livable because the population is aging,” explains Atsushi Kato chairman of the lavatory research center Japan Toilet Labo to Japan Times. “Everyone is trying to create a society where the elderly can enjoy being outdoors, travel or shop.”

source: https://qz.com/1077828/tokyo-is-upgrading-airport-toilets-with-voice-guides-for-the-blind-and-waiting-areas-for-service-dogs/

by Anne Quito

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Replacement Toilet Lids and Seats - This toilet themed restaurant is guaranteed to make you think twice about that chocolate ice-cream- This Old Toilet 800-658-4521

A CHAIN of toilet themed restaurants in Taiwan is single-handedly demolishing the old adage “you don’t s**t where you eat”.

Modern Toilet celebrates bowel movements and quick nips to the loo with a variety of dishes that look just like POO.

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You don’t see this on Come Dine With Me

All the dishes and drinks are served in mini toilets, bidet-shaped bowls and mugs inspired by urinals and she-pees.

While the idea of it is enough to make most people gag, it’s popular with Taiwanese hipsters – and families.

Unlike in the West, where faecal matter is seen as something to be flushed away and not thought off again, poo is regarded as something cute and lucky in Chinese culture.

Superstitious Chinese folk believe stepping in poo is a good omen, and you are bound to receive good luck.

Similarly, if you dream about poo it is said to be a sign that something good is coming your way.

But regardless of old wives’ tales, it’s hard to believe that anyone would be pleased to see what is being served to them at Modern Toilet.

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This dinner looks particularly grim

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Piles of poo are all over the restaurant – but thankfully they’re even edible or fake

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There are even tiny toilets to serve truffles in… at least we hope that’s a truffle

From horrifying thick turds of chocolate ice-cream to steaming portions of curry dished up in a mini lav, it’s less feast for the senses and more a game of mind over matter.

Adding to the bathroom ambience of the restaurant is the seating, with diners taking their seat on actual toilets.

On the menu they can enjoy either Chinese hot pot dishes, or European classics such as spaghetti or pork chop.

Every meal comes with a complimentary green tea and a serving of the eye-popping chocolate ice-cream that really could double for a poo.

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The outside of the restaurant holds few clues about the wonders that await inside

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If you were drinking from a cup shaped like a portable urinal would you opt for apple juice?

There are Modern Toilet restaurants all over Taiwan, with the first one opening back in 2004.

In 2013 a toilet themed restaurant opened in Los Angeles.

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Diners are served their main meals in dishes shaped like small toilets

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Even the washrooms are toilet-inspired

However, US diners weren’t impressed with Magic Restroom’s menu, which included Golden Poop (brown curry), Constipation (noodles with soybean paste) and Smells Like Poop (braised pork over rice).

Puddings were even more likely in prompt a dry-heave, with Bloody Number Two (vanilla-strawberry sundae) and Black Poop (chocolate sundae) both up for grabs before the restaurant quietly closed down eight months after opening.

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It’s probably worth going to the restaurant just to take a picture like this

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Diners sit on toilets as they eat their faeces-inspired meals

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The restaurant chain just loves toilets and all they stand (or sit) for

source; https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/food/4366928/this-toilet-themed-restaurant-is-guaranteed-to-make-you-think-twice-about-that-chocolate-ice-cream/

by Emma Gritt

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The ultimate in a relaxing toilet

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Replacement Toilet Lids and Seats - Gold toilet in the Guggenheim will have its final flush in September - This Old Toilet 800-658-4521

Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan designed the gold throne, and it is installed in a single-occupancy restroom located at the museum. The piece was made as part of an ongoing project at the museum that first opened last year at the same time. The “America” exhibit is modeled after a regular Kohler toilet and was made in Florence, Italy.  

“Cattelan’s toilet offers a wink to the excesses of the art market, but also evokes the American dream of opportunity for all – its utility ultimately reminding us of the inescapable physical realities of our shared humanity,” the Guggenheim announced in a press release for the exhibit.

Basically, you can use the fabulous fixture the same way you use any other toilet at home or in a public restroom. Just make sure you flush after you handle your business.  

There’s always a long line of people waiting to use the lavish loo at the Guggenheim. Some have waited in line for more than an hour just to use the special toilet, and we anticipate the lines will be longer as the closing date approaches.

“More than 100,000 people have waited patiently in line for the opportunity to commune with art and with nature,” said Nancy Spector, the Guggenheim’s artistic director and chief coordinator, on the museum’s website.

So, there it is. Maurizio Cattelan’s “America” exhibit is over in a few weeks. We recommend you get to the Guggenheim and use the prestigious potty as soon as possible before the show ends and the opportunity goes down the drain. 

source: http://www.metro.us/things-to-do/new-york/guggenheim-gold-toilet-exhibit-ends-september

by Lenyon Whitaker

Replacement Toilet Lids and Seats - 12 Quirky Public Toilets And Urinals From Around The World - This Old Toilet 800-658-4521

Public toilets and urinals are very important, especially in a country like India, and, if possible, they should be made available at all locations for public convenience. The absence of it not only cause inconvenience to public, but the goal of total cleanliness that the country is attempting to in next few years through PM Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ or Clean India initiative will be achieved only when toilets are built and made available at all locations.

But we will not be talking about the importance of public toilets or urinal sheds or cleanliness here in this post. What we will be talking about is something very interesting – quirky public toilets and urinals from around the world!

1. Netherlands

It seems like men in Netherlands love chatting or talking to each other while they are peeing. These open urinal sheds are everywhere in Netherlands. Indeed one of a kind!

2. Bucharest

Peeing into a mouth? This urinal can be found in B52 Club in Bucharest, Romania.

3. Chongqing in China

This one is in a 1,000-urinal toilet complex in Chongqing, China, that celebrates bathroom culture. The complex spreads over 30,000 square feet, and the four-story public restroom features urinals shaped like curvaceous women, crocodiles and even the Virgin Mary. Crazy!

4. London

This firehouse-themed restroom is can be found in London pub.

5. Austria

Fancy urinals, Aren’t they?

6. Reykjavik, Iceland

OMG! Who are those people? Criminals? Can it get any weirder?

7. China

Seems like the Chinese believe in group hugging. Or, seems like they have no problem seeing each other’s…you know what.

8. Kenya

This is so similar to the Indian ones in the rural areas, right?

9. Seoul, South Korea

An ice gallery in Seoul has an interesting ice bathroom for the tourists. Would be interesting to use once to strike an attractive selfie with it!

10. Japan

Traditionally, Japan, like India, had a squat toilet system. But they have improved a lot and have done great development on hygienic front, and now the country has highly developed toilets with features which require no use of hands or toilet papers. Additionally, they have a brilliant sanitation system to manage the waste materials.

It is said that only 10% of the toilets in Japan are squat toilets today.

11. Malawi

It is said that the situation in Malawi is different (and better) now, and there are many well-developed toilets in the country today thanks to Sustainable Sanitation program.

12. Beijing, China

A bulletproof toilet? Nobody will dare to kill you in the toilet and you can at least do your need peacefully without any disturbance. LOL!

source: http://topyaps.com/public-toilets-and-urinal-sheds

by Stephen Soulunii

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