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When it comes to energy efficiency, the subject of water is often overlooked. This is usually the case with a toilet. Most of us flush and think nothing of it. However, recent studies indicate the average person flushes a toilet 5 times a day. Over the lifespan of an average person, a toilet will be flushed nearly 140,000 times. That means if you own an old 3.5 gallon per flush or 7 gallon per flush toilet, you use 6,400 or 12,800 gallons of water a year just by flushing the toilet. If there is more than one person in a household, this number would obviously double, triple, quadruple, etc. ThatÂ’s a lot of water doing down the drain.
Toilet Dams make your tank smaller by using plastic barriers that prevent water from running out when you flush. Your toilets are the largest water-wasters in your home. If you have an older toilet or older home, about 5-7 gallons of water are lost with every flush*. Using one of these Toilet Dams will save you 100's of gallons of water per person per year and REDUCE SEWER FLOWS.
- A standard dam can hold back one gallon of water. The Incredible Superbowl Toilet Dam holds back 2-3 gallons of water per flush.
- Estimating about 10 flushes a day, that is a savings of up to 12,000 gallons a year. *
- Comes as a set of two
- easy to install, start saving right out of the box!
- Note: *The excess use of water has not gone unnoticed, as government regulations eliminated the standard 3.5 gallon per flush toilet in 1992. Since 1994, all toilets sold in the United States have been 1.6 gallons per flush or less. If you own a newer toilet, the savings is much less, but still noticable.
STEP 1: Remove cover from top of toilet tank.
STEP 2: Bend the Toilet Dam and place next to the drain valve as shown in the diagram. The rubber blade edges should press on bottom and sides of tank. POSITION TOILET DAM SO IT DOES NOT REST ON ANY BOLTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS IN TANK. Toilet Dam should be positioned so it does not interfere with any moving part in the tank.
STEP 3: Flush the toilet. If the toilet does not flush well after the Dam is installed, move Toilet Dam farther away from drain valve.
STEP 4: Check water level in tank. Water level should be 1" below the over-flow tube. Level can be adjusted by GENTLY bending float arm down.
"This toilet dam saves water by holding back some of the water that would normally flush down the toilet. This device is normally designed for 3.5 gpf toilets. However, if you have a very good flushing 1.6 gpf toilet, it can help you as well.
The Toilet Dam is made very well. The silvery part is a flexible metal of some sort. The blue part is silicon that gives a good seal.
I own a 1.6 gpf American Standard Cadet 3 toilet (not 1.28 gpf HET). I contacted Am. Std and I cannot convert it to the Cadet 3 HET by simply changing the tank :-(. What can I do? Toilet Dam to the rescue.
Since the AmStd Cadet 3 already flushes so well, I suspected that putting a toilet dam (or 2) in it wouldn't hurt flushing power much. I was right. I used 2 toilet dams in it and it works great. I put both on the right side -- the bottom one hugs the flapper. The second one is on top of the first, but angled about 30 degrees to the right.
Another way to put the 2nd toilet dam is to put it on the left side of the flapper tower assembly. This works pretty well too, but there's one caveat -- when you flush, the flapper goes down too fast. If you want a full flush, you must hold down the flush handle for a few seconds. If you depress it for only a short time, you get a fast, not-so-complete flush. The benefit of this method is that you unknowingly convert your toilet into a dual-flush system.
I also did two other mods for this toilet:
1. I adjusted the FluidMaster valve's tower height to its highest setting -- just touching the toilet tank's cover. I also made the float go as high as possible.
2. I bought a white PVC connector with a 1" inside diameter and placed it over the white center flapper tower assembly. This allows me to raise the water level about an inch above normal.
Using these mods, I achieve these goals:
1. Use less water.
2. Maintain flushing performance.
3. Save $$$.
4. Be happy."
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