A Low-Flow TOILET Guide
Plumbing codes in some areas require ultra-low-flow (ULF) toilets. These toilets shall not exceed 1.6 litres of water per flush (GPF). Standard toilets 3.5 to 7 GPF toilets use UFL work in most cases as a standard toilet, with steep sides and higher tanks to increase the speed of the water and more flushing method action.
Replacing standard toilets with low-flow toilets can save between 8,000 and 21,000 litres of water per year per household. This saves water and reduces the load on septic tank leach fields and municipal sewage.
Most low-flow toilets use the same principles as standard toilets. An air compressed by the pressure of the water in the tank used to the speed of the flow of water. If your system has low pressure, this model will take a long time to load and cannot generate enough power to work efficiently.
It is also noisy, but it uses less than 1 litre per flush. Similar models use compressed air from a conventional compressor to rinse. Listen to this before buying.
Some plumbers insist that low-flow toilets are problems. In the early 1980s were some poorly designed toilets sold that caused problems. Great progress, however, have eliminated these problems. Low-flow toilets have in Europe for more than 20 years with no sewer problems traced to them.
They are basically standard in the United States today. When you buy, you need that the toilet is a “low-flow” or “ultra-low-flow” type, not a “water saver,” that just another name for the standard 3.5-GPF toilet is.
