MINTEL FEEDBACK : Toilet Volumn shops.....SERIOUSLY !!!

Yes, they have posted $30.00 shops requiring measurements of clean toilet water after you have flushed....pics required before you flush.........anybody who has done this very unusual shop please post your feedback....this will definitely go down on this board as one of the most unusual shops ever....

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I haven't done one. Not sure I would do one for $30. No way am I using a turkey baster to suck up all my toilet water.

Unfortunately I replaced mine with Gerbers a whole bunch of years ago. If I were doing it . . . figure the weight of the empty bucket plus a sponge or old piece of toweling. Use a piece of plastic tubing to set a siphon up over the edge and then down into the bucket. (You can buy thin plastic tubing by the foot cheaply at Home Depot.) When the siphon can pull no more, throw in the toweling to absorb the rest and drop it in the bucket. Reweigh the bucket without the plastic tubing but with the wet towel. Subtract the bucket + towel weight from the bucket + towel + water weight and you will have the weight of the water. If they want fluid ounces, a pound of water is equal to 15.34 fluid ounces.

Why the need to weigh it?? My low flush toilet is a gallon and one quarter, so whatever that amount of water equals in weight is the final measurement....what am I missing here???? Are they trying to determine if these low flush toilets actually lose their accuracy perhaps???

If they are going by weight alone then they are doing the conversion for you. A gallon and a quarter of water should weigh approximately 10.43 pounds. My guess is that their client wants data for what the competitor toilets actually average to compare to what they are advertised to do.

Of course the amount of water in the bowl after a flush can be controlled by the end user as well by adjusting the float or the old way we used to save water by putting a brick in the supply tank. It is not just the water in the bowl that does the flush, but also the water in the supply tank and the force it gets from the height of the water in the supply tank rushing in.

when you think you've seen it all something always comes along.

Shopping Western NY, Northeast and Central PA, and parts of Ohio and West Virginia. Have car will travel anywhere if the monies right.

I took your title "Toilet Volume" shops to mean how much "excrement" you found floating in the toilet and analyzing how much it must weigh and how long it had been there since the last flush.

^^ Wish i could unread that

Yes, ideally, my message title should have been-"Toilet Clean Water Volumn " Regardless, this is definitely the most unusual shop seen during my ms tenure....

Years ago there was an 'under the rim' shop requiring mirror and camera. I never participated in those, but you could make routes of rim shots.

Ideally the message title would have been "Toilet Clean Water Volume."

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@Flash wrote:

Years ago there was an 'under the rim' shop requiring mirror and camera. I never participated in those, but you could make routes of rim shots.

Ba dum bum.

Didn't want to leave you hanging.

Shopping central Arizona.

Just did it. Easiest $30 I ever made.

I threw away my turkey baster though

I just signed up for one! I had to make sure I could get my Weight Watchers scale to work before making the commitment. It will be the easiest $29 I ever made; after I purchase a $1 turkey baster. I wonder if we can do multiple toilet/reports?

Shopping up and down the Colorado Rocky Mountain front range.

I did one yesterday and used a postal scale, one of those plastic squeeze mustard bottle, (Dollar Tree), a really small disposable paper cup, a straw and a sponge.

It took me about an hour to assemble all of my "tools", weigh the empty bucket, perform the two "draining-of-the-water" tasks, weigh the full bucket, take the required pictures (3) and complete the easy peasy report.

The worst part was bending over for that long. Ugh.

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Only kidding about the straw.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

Please know, it took that long only because, um, I'm slow, I didn't read the actual report beforehand and took waaaaay too many pictures and I was overly thorough.

Seriously, I think this could be completed in 30 minutes or less.....if you weren't me, that is.

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@Flash wrote:

Use a piece of plastic tubing to set a siphon up over the edge and then down into the bucket.

Sooooo.... Flash, do you recommend starting the siphon by mouth?

There are two types of people in this world: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.

@asilverstein wrote:

@Flash wrote:

Years ago there was an 'under the rim' shop requiring mirror and camera. I never participated in those, but you could make routes of rim shots.

Ba dum bum.

Didn't want to leave you hanging.

Aren't you glad she didn't refer to it as a rim "job"?
Would you have that one slide?

There are two types of people in this world: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.

@LJ wrote:

@asilverstein wrote:

@Flash wrote:

Years ago there was an 'under the rim' shop requiring mirror and camera. I never participated in those, but you could make routes of rim shots.

Ba dum bum.

Didn't want to leave you hanging.

Aren't you glad she didn't refer to it as a rim "job"?
Would you have that one slide?

That would squarely depend on how snarky and inappropriate I was feeling at the moment I saw it....which means I probably would not have let it slide. Lol

Shopping central Arizona.

@LJ wrote:

Sooooo.... Flash, do you recommend starting the siphon by mouth?

You may if you wish, but I would use the same method I use to drain the hot tub or aquarium. Submerge the tube entirely to fill it with water, cap the end with your finger and pull the end out only releasing your finger once you had the end below the level of the water you are trying to remove.

Sounds like great advice!

I would be interested in hearing the time it takes, using this method.

Anyone?

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@Flash wrote:

Submerge the tube entirely to fill it with water, cap the end with your finger and pull the end out only releasing your finger once you had the end below the level of the water you are trying to remove.

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There are two types of people in this world: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.

Stilllearning, a straw? :snort:

There are two types of people in this world: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.

@LJ: Haha, I so wanted to include that in the "picture of your tools", but thankfully, we had no straws.

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I'm sure they wouldn't have wanted a report about my loo. It was installed when the house first got indoor plumbing in 1926 and it hasn't been replaced since then.

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I notice they are asking for the measurement in grams, does anyone know if it is ok to just cross out grams and substitute it with ounces?

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/05/2016 03:16AM by tagehead.

If they want it in grams, give it to them in grams. Get out your calculator. Convert everything to ounces and then multiply the ounces by 0.035274 to get the number of grams.

You can also Google ounces to grams calculator. Pop in your number and voila.

Can someone help me locate the volume dial on my toilet? I can barely hear it

I'm just about falling out of my chair laughing as I read this thread.
Hubby just asked, "Isn't the restaurant/store/etc going to wonder when you walk into their bathroom with bucket, turkey baster, etc in hand?"

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/05/2016 07:32PM by Bena.

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