I have six tenants and 4 toilets (and wells that are being taxed)--I need ultra-easy to use.
Margaret On Mar 2, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Andy Goodell wrote: > Save your money! You can half-flush most any standard American toilet > manually. Please excuse the big technical words in this official > tutorial: The trick is to lightly push the flushy-do-dad so that water > goes into the bowl without tipping the rubber-stopper-thingamabob too > far to induce the full flush. After about 2 seconds of this balancing > game, the liquids swirl down the hole, and you can let up on the > flushy-do-dad. It seems to use about half of the bowl. > > -Andy > > Margaret McCasland wrote: >> Installing "half-flush" toilets is nice option for reducing water >> used >> merely to flush yellow (I believe invented, or at least first >> popularized in, Australia). I think they have become more available >> in >> the US lately; check out the new toilet at Greenstar . . . >> >> Also Real Goods/Gaiam sells a retrofit "half-flush handle." Has >> anyone >> tried one? I keep meaning to. It would help at the well or water >> meter end, as well as at the septic/wastewater end. >> >> Perhaps a building code requiring half-flush toilets? I believe it >> has been code in drought-stricken Australia for some time; it is >> certainly common practice there. >> >> Margaret >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County > area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ > > RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: > [email protected] > http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins > Questions about the list? ask [email protected] > free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins Questions about the list? ask [email protected] free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
