Flushed With Pride
February 8, 2011I am ridiculously pleased this morning: yesterday afternoon two new American Standard Champion 4 toilets were installed in my house, replacing 30-year-old porcelain veterans. (Yes, I know you really didn’t want to read about toilets with your morning coffee or afternoon tea, but I’ll try to make it interesting.)
I don’t usually puff particular brands and models in my writing, both my readers are now pointing out, so why this time? And, really, why this subject?
Because if there’s one thing in your house you want to have working absolutely right, it’s the toilet. I don’t mean just getting along OK most of the time, or requiring the occasional assist from the rubber plunger, or using way too much water to get only mediocre results. I don’t mean something that has to be kept going by plumbing life-support, replacing floats and gaskets and flusher handles and everything else turn and turn about. I don’t mean having to become savvy yourself at keeping toilets from running off at the tank.
No, I mean, works right, and works right the first time, and works right with very little water usage.
And has a surface that’s a dream to keep clean, not one that stains up over time permanently and irrevocably, not one that requires a choice between the use of harsh chemicals (not always effective, but always harmful to the environment) and looking at offensive and ugly stains.
And is quiet and sturdily built. One high enough off the floor for a grownup, even a tall one, to sit on it comfortably. That does one thing and does it very well.
A toilet that can truly boast, along with its new owner, “I am flushed with pride.”
