A Dual Bonus

Timing is everything! Since the tile for the old kitchen floor extended into the powder room off of the kitchen, we had to take out all of the fixtures to remove the old flooring.

I watch a little bit of HGTV and TLC. Shows like "Curb Appeal", "Flip this House", Flip that House" (yes there is one show with "this" in the title; another with "that"). While the powder room lay empty, I saw no less than 2 to 3 different features on dual flush toilets. So I decided that while the room is torn out, why not put in a new, environmentally friendly toilet.



I've chosen to go with the Aquia Dual Flush Toilet. The TotoUSA site didn't really say alot about the toilet, so here's what our friends at HGTV Pro.com says:

The high-efficiency Toto Aquia dual flush toilet enables users to select the level of water used each time the toilet is flushed -- 1.6 gallons for heavy or bulk waste or 0.9 gallons, for light or liquid waste.

The toilet has a gravity flush with a washdown system that directs 100% of the water through the rim to keep the bowl clean. The sides of the unit’s bowl are pitched to force water toward and through its large 2 5/8" trapway.

Go to HGTV Pro.com

There is no handle. There is only a button to push when you want to flush the toilet. The picture on th left shows the dual flush button. #1? Push the button on the left (it's smaller). For those big jobs... push the button on the right. It makes absoultely no sense to install one of these in the low-use powder room if we still have a water-hog in the primary bathroom. So... we're installing a second one upstairs as well.