Advantages of siphon type toilets
- Nice appearance as the pipes are hidden in the floor.
- The bowl of the American-style toilet is almost half full. This prevents the inconvenience caused by unnecessary bursts. Also, during each flush, the water covers the entire area of the bowl, and this allows it to remain clean.
- Silent operation.
- Compact size. A vertical outlet toilet is more compact and great for saving space.
- Variety of models. You can choose a toilet with decorative elements that match the design of the bathroom.
- Keeping the bowl clean. The American toilet has what is called a double flush, which means that they can flush with different levels of water depending on the type of waste, both liquid and solid. This feature is great for saving water, since the maximum amount of water in a single flush is 11-22 liters.
- Often, instead of a conventional lever, there is a button. It makes the appearance more attractive
Toilets of the American standard, of course, have a lot of advantages. Unfortunately, they are very difficult to find in Russia and Europe, as these countries have a slightly different pipe system. However, it is still possible to install such a toilet, but it will cost a lot of money.
Siphon toilets in Russia
However, European toilets often have the horizontal or "oblique" outlet required by European regulations and lack the "siphon" effect of sucking the contents out of the toilet bowls. Until recently, it was believed that siphoning toilets are only suitable for rooms in which the sewer system "goes into the floor." But developments and products have already appeared on sale, proving that under certain conditions it is possible to make a siphon-type toilet bowl with a horizontal outlet.
By European compact toilets we will understand toilets that are structurally adapted to the distribution of the sewer network above the floors, in contrast to the American toilets, adapted to the distribution of the sewer network under the ceilings. Thanks to the latter, in American toilets, to ensure a high-quality flush of the contents of the bowl into the sewer network, the so-called “siphon” effect is used, which, at the time of descent, easily sucks all the contents out of the toilet bowl and sends it freely to the sewer. The American siphon toilets were the first toilets with relatively good flush quality.
In European funnel-type toilets, to transport the contents of the toilet bowl to the sewer, the main stream of water flowing from the flush tank is usually formed so that it pushes the contents of the bowl into the outlet channel and further into the sewer.
European toilets have S-shaped outlets, which are erroneously called "siphons". However, the height of the end of the outlet pipe in such a toilet is approximately at the level of the water in the toilet bowl or slightly higher. Therefore, the siphon effect at the time of flushing in such a toilet does not appear.
It “zeroed out” during the transition to the European sewerage distribution system above the interfloor ceilings, and the outlet channel performs only the function of a water seal that prevents the penetration of gases from the sewer network into the living space. It should be noted that, once in the room, these gases can lead to death.
True, sellers of American toilets with a siphon flush effect, selling a toilet in Russia, can, for a fee, raise the floor by 150-200 mm in the toilet room and solve the problem of installing American toilets in rooms with a European sewer pipe distribution system.
The specialists of the South Korean company SensPa managed to create a line of Serim siphon toilets with a horizontal outlet. The outlet of the toilet bowl is directed not to the floor, but to the wall, and is placed at a height of 100 mm from the floor surface.
siphon toilet Serim with horizontal outlet
