How to make a choice of toilet for the bathroom

Plumbing manufacturers rightly notice that our morning does not begin “with a cup of coffee,” but with a visit to the toilet. Every modern home should be equipped with a toilet, so much depends on its proper choice. Still, some part of life we ​​spend with him.

Our task today is to tell how to carry out the selection of the toilet according to the parameters, what criteria must be presented to the plumber, what type of appliance is suitable for your bathroom.

You should also know what to look for when buying first. For example, on the tank mounting or release design.

Device evaluation criteria

Below we suggest to get acquainted with the most significant:

1. Seamless connection to plumbing and sewage pipes.
2. Providing free space in front and sides of the device, which will provide ease of use.
3. Reliability and maintainability of the kit “toilet + tank”.
4. The design of the equipment should not repel.
5. The process of using the device should take place without splashing.

Mount type

Now we learn what the plumbing market can offer us. And let's start with the type of mounting device:

Tip: Often in small bathrooms there is often a niche for a sewer riser where communications can easily fit.

Installing a floor toilet easier to hang on. Therefore, consumers often choose just such a design.

Toilet bowl release

One of the questions that should be addressed before you go to the store for shopping. Otherwise, you will need to rework the sewer entrance. Therefore, we recommend to take a picture or sketch it.

There are three options for the release of the toilet bowl:

1. Oblique - sewage goes into the sewer at an angle of about 45 ?. The design received its distribution from Soviet times. Construction companies, designing home-based engineering networks, today also focus on them.

We recommend choosing only such sanitary fixture in such cases:

• the bell of a pig-iron sewer pipe is installed at an angle;
• there is no place to install the device from the wall at 150-200 mm;
• you have no desire to turn the replacement of the toilet into a smoothly flowing overhaul of the bathroom with the replacement of the riser and punching overlaps.

1. Straight or horizontal - characteristic of imported devices. In this case, the sewer pipe goes horizontally into the wall, practically does not occur in the models of our manufacturers.

To connect your favorite instance to the engineering network, you will need a corrugation of the appropriate diameter, the price of which depends on the quality. Using it and a rubber sealant, you can deploy the device at any angle to the pipe and wall.

Consider one thing - the toilet will necessarily move forward at least 150 mm. The exact distance will depend on the height of the sewer socket above the floor and the length of the discharge device.

1. Vertical - most often it can be found in houses built in the 30-50s of the twentieth century. They have a sewer socket vertically out of the floor. For him fit models that will be installed on top of him.

Tip: in a private house we recommend also to pay attention to the vertical issue.

Such devices save space in the bathroom and make it possible to hide the pipes in the ceiling. Accordingly, this option must be provided at the design stage of the house.

dimensions

The selection of the toilet in the parameters means the use of roulette not only at home, but also when going to the trading network or to the market. You should know the distance to the door and the back wall.

It should be noted that the drain tank will noticeably be released back, going beyond the limits of the issue. It is also desirable that from the toilet to the wall or door in front there should be at least 600 mm.

Tip: 350 mm is considered to be the minimum distance to the walls, otherwise you will not be able to spread your knees.

Keep in mind

1. If you need to choose a toilet for an elementary school or kindergarten, be aware that its size differs from an adult by the height of the seat. This is due to the fact that the child will just be difficult for him to climb. For them, make models with a height of 290-350 mm.
2. Pay attention to where the water will be to avoid splashing on the loin. Closer to the rear wall of the device should be made steep slope, and the water mirror itself should be located closer to the front wall.

Cistern

So, it remains to learn how to pick up a toilet bowl. The overwhelming number of models of toilet bowls are compacts, which in addition to the bowl also have a flush tank. The use of the upper placement of the storage tank can be found only in the public toilets.

We will understand why:

• the appearance of the room deteriorates due to the long pipe leading to the bowl;
• bathroom space is extremely uneconomical. For example, shelves and cabinets for hygienic and sanitary facilities can be installed in small toilet facilities above the toilet.

Of the advantages of such an arrangement is a high velocity of water when flushing.

Yet for a private house or city apartment is more suitable compact, where the tank is located on the toilet. Therefore, your task is to choose a set with the optimal placement.

Shelf

Before you pick up the tank to the toilet you need to know that they make toilet bowls with a cast shelf, which is one with the main device, and with a separate one. When both sizes and other characteristics are suitable for both, we recommend to stay on the cast.

It does not have vulnerabilities, which cannot be said about another variant:

• When resting on it, it will not damage the device mounting ears. Therefore, there is no need to install a support between the cistern and the wall;
• No need for a rubber cuff that connects it to the toilet. Experts believe that this is one of the most vulnerable places, as it begins to crack and flow after a while;
• Capacity installation is much easier, as well as its repair if necessary.

Remember the advice of experts on the choice of the toilet that chipped and broken ears device with its sharp edges can cause terrible wounds.

Inside tank

When choosing a compact toilet bowl, ask to see a set of fittings for the cistern.

It is best when he:

• as simple as possible, since the construction is more complicated, the more often it fails and less maintainable;
• not very compact, otherwise repair, maintenance or replacement of valves will turn into a very time-consuming process;
• ideal when the float valve is installed on the side just under the hood. Lower placement - a place of potential leakage, which should be as small as possible.
• fittings, if sold separately, must be compatible with your kit. We recommend to abandon exclusivity.

Tip: when you purchase an exclusive tank, it means that the fittings correspond to this. During the repair you will suffer a lot.

Conclusion

Today we told you how to select a toilet for a bathroom. To do this, you need to know the size of the toilet room, the location of the socket of engineering networks and other parameters. Do not rush, take this issue responsibly, since you are choosing a device not for one year.

The video in this article will provide an opportunity to find additional information on the above topic.