Why are we not all doing this already?
6 years ago by do65 · 390 Likes · 9 comments · Trending
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· 6 years ago
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Because people don’t want prison toilets in their bathrooms
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bethorien
· 6 years ago
I would definitely prefer to not have the place where I go to clean my hands directly connected to a vessel of fecal matter without a backwards movement buffer or a pressure lock keeping it from going up the tube
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strongsad
· 6 years ago
It can't go back up the tube, the water flows down around the rim into the commode and when the weight of the water overcomes the trap it flushes. There is no real connection from poopoopeepee water to the tank.
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aviva
· 6 years ago
@strongsad “poopoopeepee water“ lol
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guest_
· 6 years ago
Just hope you don’t drop your toothbrush or anything. I’d rather it hit the floor than fall in the toilet. And while toilet water may not flow to the sink, if the sink acts as the tank, you either need to keep the sink basin full of standing water or you need to run the sink long enough to be able to flush the toilet. If it’s tankless... the design is somewhat cosmetic except for speciality applications, but if you wanted the sink to drain into the toilet drain because there were no other drains to use, there are better ways in most cases. Basically outside of “bespoke” applications where the draw backs of the design are better than having nothing, and no other solution would be feasible or acceptable, this isn’t practical or desirable beyond arguably aesthetics (which I would pass on these aesthetics personally.)
snowbeast
· 6 years ago
Put the damn lid down! Didn't you see the results of that study where fecal bacteria sprays out in a fountain?
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guest
· 6 years ago
Ew
guest_
· 6 years ago
There are some very good reasons we don’t see this more. Let’s start off easy- if you drop something like a toothbrush, it’s going on the toilet. There’s that. Next- the sink either must function as a toilet tank or the toilet must be tankless. If the sink is the tank, it must always have about a gallon of water in it to be able to flush the toilet, so you’ve got standing water from a sink 24/7, or you must turn the sink on and wait to flush, or work up a convoluted solution to the issue. There isn’t an appreciable space savings for the draw backs compared to a hidden tank or a wall mounted tank either. Now- if it’s tankless, you need a home that can provide the water pressure to power a tankless toilet (most can’t,) Or you need electric pumps and aids to allow it to work. A home tankless “flick assist” toilet starts at about $1,000 and that doesn’t include all the work you may need to get it running. And they tend to be loud like a public bathroom toilet, and still use as much water..
guest_
· 6 years ago
... as a traditional toilet, unless you spend even more to get a tankless flishbassist with computer controlled valving and low water use. The cost and noise and wiring and extras make it geberally not a very good value or very desirable for most homes where a $100 tank toilet drops right in if you can turn a wrench on 2 nuts and u hook a water line. In short: the “sink on toilet” is a solution that has very limited application in homes where the architecture and plumbing would require such a toilet, but most homes are designed to accommodate a tanked toilet so there is generally little or no practical reason to deal with all the costs and draw backs of the design choice. It is a specialty application that in this form does nothing that can’t be better and cheaper accomplished through other means.
