Toilets! Those necessities of modern day life that few people like to discuss.
We know there are two toilets, well three toilets, in the house. Two that function and one stray in the basement. But… you know I usually have a but! The reality is, the bathroom on the main floor is so tiny there is no way it would be accessible to someone with a physical disability, let alone someone with a disability who happens to use a wheelchair. So though it functions… it is not practical.
One of the first things my big brother told me when he learned we had bought this house was, “Sis, make sure all the toilets are high enough it is easy to get up from them!”
I chuckled, “Dave, we will make sure all our toilets are ADA compliant. I don’t like struggling off those low toilets either.”
So the bathroom on the main floor not only needs a larger space it needs an easily accessible toilet.
The search for ADA compliant toilets begins. Though we want and, I guess it is mandatory now, a low flush toilet, we also want powerful flushes. There is not much that is worse than a clogged toilet for no reason other than it can’t do its job properly.
We also knew we wanted a one piece toilet. They are easier to clean and less likely to leak. We looked at American Standard, Ideal Standard, Kohler, Ariel Bath, Niagara, Delta, Grohe, Porcher, Barkley, Toto, and Moen.
In the end we just could not resist the Toto Supreme 2 Flush, One-Piece High-Efficiency Toilet with a SanaGloss finish, 1.28GPF (gravitational potential energy, in other words how well it flushes), in Cotton (color choice). It is ADA compliant, therefore easy to rise from. One piece, so easy to clean. Cotton for the color choice… who does not like the idea of soft bolls of cotton? And, it is a Toto! How could you resist knowing your toilet is named after “a little black dog with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose”? (Quote attributed to Frank Baum from “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”.)
So if you come to visit us, and we hope ALL of you do, know that no matter what floor in the house you are on when you feel the call of nature, you will be sitting on an ADA toilet inspired by a soft boll of cotton and a charming scamp of a dog named Toto…
They all had nice qualities
They had such appeal
The two Standards… “American” and “Ideal”.
Who doesn’t like those American Ways
Of Standards that guide each of our days?
They tugged at our heart strings.
But neglected to zing
We wanted a potty that allowed us to go
And, yet was still, a part of the show
So in the end there wasn’t a scuffle
Most of those pottys made not even a ruffle
Except for one, all of the rest
could not come near to being the best
And, so in the end … It was a no go
Except for our favorite, good old Toto!
