Fully Shrouded Toilet.

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We are getting a new bathroom installed. Our installer has suggested a fully shrouded toilet to replace our existing 30 year old toilet with cistern above.

Is there anything more disgusting looking than a Fully Shrouded Toilet.

Anyone have one of these?
 
Gosh I think they a lot better than the other old type especially if you are faced with a side view of the toilet as you enter the room, that said though they seldom line up with the pipe if it's going down through the floor, fine if it's out the wall. I have just recently replaced an older one and both have had a gap at the back between back of toilet and wall which is a nuisance then to box in. I left this one freestanding as the gap is smaller and not worth the bother but it kind of defeats the purpose of the neatness of them, still better to look at though imo
 
Are the cisterns taller than the traditional cistern?

Our toilet is beneath a window sill and the existing cistern has about 1" of space beneath the overhang of the window sill.
 
Much cleaner.
Make sure you get a soft close lid as well, treat yoself!
 

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I imagine that depends on the particular one, the cisterns are a lot smaller than old style, as I have a tape handy I have measured my new one and to top of cistern it's 80cm high, this new one is definitely a little taller narrower cistern than old one but it's not under window so didn't matter.
 
Never liked them - not because of aesthetics but because of the hassle if/when any DIY maintenance is needed!
 
Sarah Ryan said:
Much cleaner.
Make sure you get a soft close lid as well, treat yoself!
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Yeh see mine never went back flush with wall like that pic as the pipe was down through floor and out too far. Soft close lids are great but I think you either have them all or none in a house cause it's very hard not to just drop the other ones then forgetting it's not soft close!
 
ClubMan said:
Never liked them - not because of aesthetics but because of the hassle if/when any DIY maintenance is needed!
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Yes they are complicated under the cistern lid.
Flush valve instead of siphon. Bottom fed filler valve.
I had a slow filling problem and needed to watch a YouTube video to figure out how to fix it. It just needed a small rather complicated looking diaphragm to fix the problem.
6.95 euro from Screwfix and about 10 minutes work.
 
Yes we have them in all of the bathrooms in the house, far from them I was rared according to my mother!!
 
I'm sorry, but what are we talking about here? A toilet that pretends to have no pipe to take waste away, or what?
 
extopia said:
I'm sorry, but what are we talking about here? A toilet that pretends to have no pipe to take waste away, or what?
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That's probably overlt harsh on the toilet...the waste and fill pipes are shrouded (hidden).

However the practical benefit of visible pipes are that leaks are immediately visible and maintenance is much easier.
 
My plumber wants to install one in my bathroom. He wants to cut a square in the side of the shrouded toilet side and run the piping in to our current boxing? Our existing toilet has boxing to one side for the internal waste pipe.

Surely this could weaken/crack the shrouded toilet? He says he does it all the time.
 
It probably won't crack if he cuts it with a cutting disc.
It will definitely be weakened because the base is thickened where it rests on the floor.
This thickened part provides support for the shrouded back part.

You would be better using an open backed toilet.
There is a picture of one in the link in post #11
 
gledswood said:
My plumber wants to install one in my bathroom. He wants to cut a square in the side of the shrouded toilet side and run the piping in to our current boxing? Our existing toilet has boxing to one side for the internal waste pipe.
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What's the point? These are supposed to look neat and flush with the wall. He wants to incorporate your existing toilet boxing? Maybe just get a standard toilet and use the existing boxing.
 
S class said:
It probably won't crack if he cuts it with a cutting disc.
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What if it does? Who will pay for the replacement. You or the plumber. I can hear it now....."Ah sure we will just put some filler in the crack....it will be grand"....Six months later and you are afraid to sit on it.
 
ClubMan said:
Never liked them - not because of aesthetics but because of the hassle if/when any DIY maintenance is needed!
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Is it easy to take off the cistern lid with the push down flush button in the lid?

Do these push down buttons ever give problems and are they easy to fix?

We can use up to 5 litres of water waiting for our hot water to flow from our tank to our tap. We save this water rather than let it pour down the sink and use it to re-fill our cisterns after we flush our toilets.
 
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