{"id":3937,"date":"2015-02-18T09:23:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrrc-ch.org\/?p=3937"},"modified":"2015-02-18T09:23:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:23:13","slug":"choosing-new-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrrc-ch.org\/?p=3937","title":{"rendered":"Choosing a new toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Best models\u00a0wed looks and efficiency:\u00a0<\/strong>If you are adding or remodeling a bathroom,\u00a0the toilet\u00a0you select will affect more than the room&#8217;s appearance.\u00a0Since toilets can account for more than 30% of a family&#8217;s water use, replacing an old, inefficient toilet with a new water-saving model can mean\u00a0a savings of more than\u00a0$100 a year.<\/p>\n<p>A 2012 Consumer Reports article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/cro\/news\/2012\/02\/new-water-saving-toilets-that-don-t-skimp-on-performance\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/cro\/news\/2012\/02\/new-water-saving-toilets-that-don-t-skimp-on-performance\/index.htm\">new water-saving toilets<\/a> discusses several available options, and explains which are worth seeking out. A more recent discussion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/cro\/news\/2015\/01\/the-lowly-bathroom-goes-high-tech\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/cro\/news\/2015\/01\/the-lowly-bathroom-goes-high-tech\/index.htm\">high-tech bathroom options<\/a>\u00a0describes some of the new toilet features\u00a0currently being introduced and lists Consumer Reports&#8217; top-performing toilets (with a link to their full ratings and recommendations, for subscribers to that service).\u00a0You\u00a0might also check out HRRC&#8217;s handouts on <a href=\"https:\/\/c2p.a00.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/CHOOSING-A-TOILET.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/c2p.a00.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/CHOOSING-A-TOILET.pdf\">Choosing a New Toilet<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/c2p.a00.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TOILET-INSTALLATION.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/c2p.a00.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TOILET-INSTALLATION.pdf\">Toilet Installation<\/a>, especially if you plan to install the toilet yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best models\u00a0wed looks and efficiency:\u00a0If you are adding or remodeling a bathroom,\u00a0the toilet\u00a0you select will affect more than the room&#8217;s appearance.\u00a0Since toilets can account for more than 30% of a family&#8217;s water use, replacing an old, inefficient toilet with a new water-saving model can mean\u00a0a savings of more than\u00a0$100 a year. A 2012 Consumer Reports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrrc-ch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrrc-ch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrrc-ch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrrc-ch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrrc-ch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hrrc-ch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrrc-ch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrrc-ch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrrc-ch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}