| Often when discussing low flow toilets or dual flush | | | | flush is using about 1.6 gallons per flush, or 6 liters. I |
| toilets, the issue most people have, is claiming that it | | | | don't hear many people complaining about low flow |
| is necessary to clean the bowl more often. While it's | | | | toilet streaking. If your low-flow toilet was converted |
| true in some instances that this could be the case | | | | to a dual flush system using a retrofit kit, guess how |
| with a one piece, brand new dual flush toilet, is it | | | | many gallons of water you will be using for solid |
| always the case? | | | | waste? That's right, the same 1.6 gallons. It's only |
| Newer model dual flush toilets have come a long way | | | | when using a half flush, 1 gallon only, that the water |
| in terms of design. Steeper bowl sides and improved | | | | flow changes at all. This holds true for any size tank, |
| flow designs have eliminated many of the past | | | | the reduced flush will always be 1 gallon and the full |
| bowl-streaking transgressions that plagued the genre. | | | | tank is the full flush. |
| However there is one kind of dual flush toilet that | | | | So what we've learned here, is that while buying a |
| never streaks more than a non-dual flush version. | | | | new dual flush toilet, depending on the model and |
| What I'm referring to here is a dual flush retrofit kit. | | | | manufacturer, might leave you with a streaky bowl, |
| Dual flush retrofit kits convert your existing toilet | | | | converting your existing toilet to a dual flush system |
| tank into a dual flush system. The idea behind a dual | | | | never will. If it does, you already had a streaky bowl |
| flush system in the first place is to utilize a full flush | | | | problem to begin with and it might be time to break |
| for solid waste and a reduced flush for liquid waste. | | | | out the rubber gloves. |
| Now, if you have a low-flow toilet already, your full | | | | |