Anyone have significant experience with wall mounted residential toilets?
Job is new construction, I can plan accordingly.
I will beef up the framing and it will be a 2×6 wall, so I am not worried about anchoring it, my concerns are more about performance and reliability issues.
The wall is drywall, not tile, so it isn’t catostrophic if there is a problem but reliability is my priority.
1. a few companies make the carrier wall frames, are any better then others? Some (Grohe) accept multiple manufacturers toilets while others (Kohler) seem to be proprietary. Grohe/Kohler/Toto would be my short list. My plumber does not like American Standard but I used to use it a lot and never had an issue, but I have moved away from it since he is not a fan.
2. Is the flush equivilent across manufacturers?
3. Presumably you can’t adjust the unit once the carrier is in the wall, is that ever an issue?
4. Besides material costs, how much more is the hookup on a typical job? My plumber said he hates them and charges $500 extra, but that seems extreme and I can’t see what the big deal is. I likely will install the carrier myselfat that price.
In many ways it seems to make my job easier and saves me time and money, since I can rough in the carrier, prep/paint to the hole, and not have to tile around anything.
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Do note that it places much more stress on the framing than a standard floor mount unit. If the carrier attaches only to the wall framing then you need very stiff studs. If the carrier attaches to the floor then you need for the floor to be quite stiff, in a mode that is not normally required of residential framing.
This is the one I used and it was OK with the Toto wall hanger.
I did have a concrete floor and some 2x6 framing floor to ceiling to anchor it to but I had existing stuff back there so I needed to add additional 2x6s.
These things use rubber rings to seal the pipes and so far so good. The heaight is adjustible but once you do it, you are somewhat locked in because your plumbing needs to match the height.
So far, 5 years in, it is pretty reliable. but the particular flush paddle I used requires you hold it in until you get a full flush. There are an assortment of cover/[paddles with the Gebrit.
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