{"id":1757,"date":"2014-02-13T15:33:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T20:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mansfieldplumbing.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2014-02-13T15:33:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T20:33:18","slug":"water-saving-toilets-the-toy-car-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/blog\/water-saving-toilets-the-toy-car-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Saving Toilets & the Toy Car Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"toiletpaper\"<\/a>I picked up a friend the other evening for a girls\u2019 night out.\u00a0 We needed a break from the kids. When I pulled up, she was sitting in her driveway in her car\u2019s backseat, reading by the interior light\u2014a sure sign of desperation. As she climbed into my car, she told me she had snuck out of the house early leaving her husband with a backed up toilet and two kids to put to bed. Evidently he keeps buying this really thick toilet paper, her kids use a ton of it, and it\u2019s constantly stopping up the toilet. Sometimes it\u2019s the little things that set you over the edge and basically\u2014she\u2019s over it.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t the time or place for me to suggest that a new toilet might be the answer rather than skimping on skinny ply to fix her problem. Girls don\u2019t usually engage in toilet talk much.\u00a0 Not to mention, there\u2019s still this notion that water saving toilets may bring down the water bill, but they probably don\u2019t work that well in the flushing department. But they do. Really well in fact, if you get the right one. I know, because I have one. And there are great designs, but that topic is for another day.<\/p>\n

Really, I\u2019m looking for an excuse to post one of these videos. I think they\u2019re kind of hysterical, so I want the world to know they\u2019re here. But more importantly, they prove my point. How many golf balls can you flush down this Mansfield high efficiency toilet? Guess first. Toy cars? Squares of toilet paper?<\/p>\n