I'm in need of a new toilet.
 

And I'm thinking of this specific model: Kohler numi. Any of you guys have any experience with this specific model?

Get one of those Japanese ones that squirt water and has a blow dryer. I thought about it when I remodeled my bathroom, but i was afraid I would never leave the room.

That's what I'm afraid of.

TEMPTING

Washlet B100

Not my style. I'd stick with American Standard.

Kohler QA/QC and Support is poor
 

Ever since Kohner moved their production South of the Border, their production AQ/QC has hit the dumper. I do a lot of Punch List inspections for a major interiors firm here in NY and they stopped using Kohler unless the client insists.

Why?

Casting flash is visible under the brushed nickle plating on $350 Bancroft line faucets. Do you think they might catch this in the time between casting and plating?

Pedastal sinks with mounting holes at ends at different heights - 1 1/4 " difference! Again BASIC Quality Control. Plus the sinks sit crooked on the pedistal because the sockets are improperly molded. Yet they shipped the product!

Toilet porcelain with water trap out of vertical alignment - 30 deg off to one side! Yet they actually delivered the unit and tried to back charge us for returning it!

I guess the Kohler family cares more about their fancy Millionaires Club Resort business than the products that made them billionaires!

We now spec American Standard and Moen and both Reps answer their cell phones 24/7! Kohler always rolled to Voice mail and they caklled back on their schedule (usually Tuesday on a Saturday call!).

The Numi is getting a lot of press, probably for being the most expensive, which will only spur Toto to include a full panel urinalysis lab in its next model. The warm air at the feet feature though, sounds nice. :D

One time I left the lid up and during the night, the wife went to the crapper and fell into the water. The words that came from her mouth probably caused the paint to blister. So, this would be a marriage saver

the Toto Super flush 3000....

Crappy thread

Do they give unruly kids the toilet head swirl in your country? :confused::D

x2 on the Toto. Who needs a the extras.

Would be painful; we have toilets with a shelf, so you can examine your poo and best of all no back splash! . ;)

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Is that a turd in there? :D

Humanure

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:eek:Seriously...are you actually considering paying that kind of money for a toilet?:eek:

I was at my lovely daughter #4's house this week. They have those low profile toilets which swirl the flushing action and makes a relatively silent flush with no gigantic sucking fartlike sounds. I am considering one of them in my toilet which resides next to our sleeping chamber.

That's just the optional seat. Toto makes a full toilet that is like a super bidet combined with a toilet. About $3k, or maybe $6K, I forget. The seat is much more affordable. I have a homemade bidet attachment thingy for my toilet and, oh those-uh Freenchmen, they have done a good thing when they invent the bidet, no?

But, all seriousness aside, the Toto toilet line is the best, IMHO. The Toto eco drake, 16 inch tall, is some kind of groovy toilet. I've installed 3 or 4, it's my new favorite:

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It's the ADA compliant model which means it's taller - 16 or 16 1/4 high. The only time the ADA acronym is any good.

Wouldn't the "shelf" get dirty?

Yes, but it should be a separate entity from the bog -- you don't really want to mix excreting and cleaning in the same appliance, especially for the ladies!

Best you get back to basics !!
A few ideas from Australia. :eek::D;);)

Aussie Dunnies. - a gallery on Flickr

No it stays surprisingly clean, one of those miracles.

Doesn't bother me. The water that is er, uh, directed upon the outer regions of my anal orifice is from a sprayer on a tube from tap water, the effluent drains down into the bog. Not more or less objectionable than feces making the plop, plop action.

find a toilet from the 50s with a big tank and redo the inards with commercial parts, if needed, polish it up and install. Scads better than the junk out today AND you'll save water, because everything goes down with one flush.....

The earlier low flow toilets were indeed, uh, crappy but the latest generation, especially the Totos, are much better. The new 1.28 gallon Totos perform much better than the 1.6 gallon models of 10 to 15 years ago.

Holy *****! :eek:


No ma'am!

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I think you know a guy who lives in one of them !! Or at least his car was like the inside of one !!! ;);)