{"id":728,"date":"2017-08-01T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/?p=728"},"modified":"2017-07-28T10:45:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T14:45:04","slug":"switch-to-low-flow-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/plumbing-service\/switch-to-low-flow-toilet\/","title":{"rendered":"Make the Switch to a Low-Flow Toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-729 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/toilet-with-sprayer-and-phone-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"toilet-with-sprayer-and-phone\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/toilet-with-sprayer-and-phone-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/toilet-with-sprayer-and-phone.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/>What appliance in your home uses the most water per year? You\u2019d likely guess \u201cthe shower,\u201d but that\u2019s not correct. (Unless you take ridiculously long showers\u2014which you should stop doing right away!) No, the correct answer is \u201cthe bathroom toilet.\u201d The toilet accounts for 40% of all indoor water use. This means that a toilet that uses too much water is the biggest source of household water waste. If you have an older toilet (more than 20 years), we recommend looking into having it replaced with a special low-flow model, also known as a low-flush toilet. But a low-flow toilet is also a good idea as a replacement for newer standard toilets. The difference in water use is still significant.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>What\u2019s the difference in water usage with a low-flow toilet?<\/h3>\n<p>A toilet that\u2019s more than two decades old is probably a major water waster, using up 4 to 6 gallons of water per flush. By comparison, the current federal standard for a toilet is 1.6 gallons. So even if you don\u2019t purchase a low-flush model, getting rid of the old toilet is a good idea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/watersense\/residential-toilets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A WaterSense certified low-flow toilet<\/a> only uses 1.28 gallons per flush, which is 20% less than the required standard. And there\u2019s no change in performance; you won\u2019t notice any difference except when your water bill arrives. Depending on the type of toilet you\u2019re replacing, your household can save nearly 13,000 gallons of water <em>every year<\/em>. You can expect to save $110 in water bills per year and over $2,200 over the toilet\u2019s service life.<\/p>\n<p>We install many types of fixtures for <a href=\"\/plumber\/bathroom-plumbing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bathroom plumbing in Cincinnati, OH<\/a>. If you\u2019re interested in saving water and money with new low-flow fixtures, contact our office today and speak to one of our professionals. We also handle new construction plumbing services for those larger bathroom plumbing jobs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ken Neyer Plumbing, Inc. serves Cincinnati and the surrounding area. <a href=\"\/contact\/schedule-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We have 24-hour service available.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have an older toilet (more than 20 years), we recommend looking into having it replaced with a special low-flow model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[81],"tags":[93,101,138,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neyerplumbing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}