Are you a victim of the great low flow toilet legislation? Did you know that in 1992 Congress passed the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, which mandated that all U.S. consumer toilets are required to use no more than 1.6 gallons of water per flush instead of the 3.5 gallons the older models used? Incredible, but true.

Unfortunaltely, some Congresspeople are not plumbers, and as it turns out, this law has turned us into a nation of "double-flushers," ofter using more water than before to-ahem-eliminate the process of elimination, shall we say.

In their rush to accommodate the new laws, the toilet manufacturers offered consumers a number of models that were simply unable to perform the task at hand. Because they don't work very well, manufacturers keep experimenting with different designs and methods to solve the problem. This means a lot of folks are stuck with earlier models that don't do what we ask them to do. Manufacturers are now offering toilets that use not only traditional gravity-flush, but that incorporate things like pressure-, pump- and vacuum-assist features.

Of course, if the low-flow models really worked as well as the good, old higher consumption models, they wouldn't have to require us to use the low flows by law, would they?

The National Association of Home Builders report that about four out of five people reported problems with low-flow toilets during 1999. Most builders in the survey say that they receive more call-backs on low-flush toilets than on anything else. And, in an article titled "An Update on Low-Flush Toilets," published in the Washington Post, reporter Mike McClintock writes that unlike other problems that turn up even in well-built houses, most builders and homeowners say that the toilet trouble can't be fixed.

What they really mean is that low-flow problems cannot be easily fixed. But, we can replace your low-flow toilet with one that will do its job. It's a nominal investment for the civility of it all, and we are happy to answer your questions about this sensitive topic-one that may be perhaps a bit awkward after all, to discuss with your neighbors. 

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