OV9

jamcg wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 11:12 pm

Explosive Newt wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 8:57 am Is it just me, or are modern toilets getting smaller? To reduce the amount of water required per flush I guess? The missus had her bathroom done not long ago and the turd aperture is miniscule, a stark contrast to some of the high capacity crap hoppers in the older (1960s built) part of work. It's a false economy if you ask me, as I often end up flushing Mrs Newt's bog two or three times to clear persistent pebbledash that would have just gone into the water in a bigger loo.

The answer is yes. Old cisterns were 9 litres, modern ones are required by E.U legislation to be 6 litre maximum with a 4 litre half flush. The smaller aperture in the pan is designed to take advantage of the smaller volume- when they introduced 6 litre cisterns onto pans designed for 9 litres they didn’t flush anything away

Marv wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 8:42 am When I first visited Japan, the thing that I'd never seen before wasn't the well known high tech versions, but the old school ones, which have a built in tap that fills the cistern and you can wash your hands with the clean water, before it enters the cistern: