save water with your toilet

have you ever wanted to save water and make your toilet fill up faster? well, if you do, then this is the Instructable for you.





supplies:
common sense
a toilet (duh)

Step 1 Step 1

first open your toilet

simply take off the top of the tank.

Comments

[magickaldan]

Hope you don't kill yourself because now you might not be filling the S-trap quite as well and can let sewer gas in.  If you want to save money either Buy a High Efficient Toilet or reduce the amount of water per flush.  It's rather simple take a 1 gallon bucket or  a little smaller then cut the bottom off.  Stick this to the bottom of your tank around the fill tube and drain, thus when it flushes it won't flush the whole tank just the little bit above and in the bucket.  You'll still get an effective flush because it's not the volume of water used it's the pressure generated by the height of it.  Plus if your whole tank flushes with each flush then something is wrong because most toilets use less than 1.2 gallons per flush.

[chrisnotap]

An even easier way is to fill a 2 litre pop bottle and place it in the toilet tank therefore when it fills, you will save 2 litres each flush and still have the water height for a good flush action! good luck.

[chrissv]

That brings up something I never understood: where does the water which enters the overflow tube from the top fill tube go? Does it go into the bowl directly, or does it go down the toilet drain directly?

Thanks in advance for clearing up a big mystery in life!

[johnlvs2run]

Into the bowl and down the drain, until the tank is filled up.

[chrisnotap]

Generally toilets are designed to fill the tank and bowl at the same time and when the tank is full, the bowl has just reached it's full point too as to not let water be wasted down the drain. This may sound stupid but toilets are actually pretty neat how they work if you sit and flush (I mean sit backwards with the tank lid off) and watch and study what the water is doing. Just a crazy point I wanted to add!!

[Cartuner55]

Into the bowl

[fjpalacios1]

I agree with the first comment, you need that water for the bowl and drain. Try harnessing "Grey Water" to save on water. I'm currently working on a design to collect grey water from my washing machine and the second story shower for flushing the first story bathroom.

[chrisnotap]

I have found that it is just not worth it to use grey water. Too smelly as it ages, filtering becomes expensive. I decided to save rainwater and use it for my basement washroom toilet. All gravity fed, no pumps, I made a sand filter and the water is very clean. I was recently given 2 solar panels and want to use them and a low flow pump to pump the rainwater to a height so I can also connect to the first floor toilet also. My only expense will be the 12v pump at this point. Have you been successful at using the grey water??

[fjpalacios1]

I agree with:
Mar 12, 2010. 3:59 PMmagickaldan