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Do you flush a toilet 5 times a day?

140,000 flushes in a lifetime is a lot of water down the drain.

According to a Water Conservation Study, the average person flushes the toilet five times a day.

Those five flushes you make may not seem like much until you realize that each time you flush an older 3.5 - 7 gallons per flush (gpf) toilet, you use 6,400-12,800 gallons/year. Add family members and a lot of water is going down the drain.

Since 1994, all toilets sold in the U.S. use 1.6 gallons per flush, or less. Replacing old toilets with newer models in your home can save up to $125 and up to 10,500 gallons each year, depending on utility rates and usage habits.

Standard Efficiency Toilets

Using the new 1.6 gpf toilet, the same five flushes use 2,900 gallons per person, But even with this reduction in water usage, standard-efficiency toilets use roughly 26% of all water used indoors.

Dual flush saves more.

A short flush for liquids and a full flush for solids can save up to 25% more than standard models.

High-Efficiency Toilets (HETs)

New high-efficiency toilets use 1.28 gpf (or less). Although HET's use less water, and are efficient in emptying the bowl of waste, industry associations are not supporting their use, yet.

Industry associations concern is the amount of water to move waste along an older home’s sewer line designed for five gallons per flush, has not been proven.

At this time we do not recommend the toilet in some older home situations. While we will install if you are convinced you want one, we will not guarantee the effectiveness of the HET.

Over the course of your lifetime, you will likely flush the toilet nearly 140,000 times.

Improve your bathroom, save water and save money with a new toilet. Call the oldest plumber for honest help.

 

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7 Tips for a Greener Home and Business

1. Reduce water usage
   • New toilets save up to 10,000 gallons water a year or more with a new low water toilet. Did you know you flush...continue reading
   • Faucet Areators Can Save Up To 30,000 Gallons Of Water A Year Save. High-efficiency sink faucets and faucet aerators can reduce the standard water flowby more than 30 percent without sacrificing performance. The average home, retrofitted with water-efficient fixtures, can save 30,000 gallons per year.
   • Stop wasting and waiting for hot water in your bathroom. Save money, save time, save water. Get instant hot water at every faucet. Demand hot water re-circulator pump.
   • Showering consumes about 17 percent of residential indoor water use. A two gallon per minute shower head could cut shower water usage by 2/3. With a 50:50 mix of hot: not-hot water the heated water savings would be about three gallons per minute of showering so a 5 minute shower equals about 15 gallons of heated water. Multiply that by a spouse and two teenagers and you can easily pour 60 gallons of heated water down the drain in just one day of showering.
   • Replacing your leaking toilet flapper?
     Toilet flappers last about 5 years - unless you are using those white puck-like toilet bowl cleaning tablets - then you may find that your flapper is leaking in 2 years or less! Touch the flapper. If the coloring from your flapper gets on your fingertips, your flapper is deteriorating and needs to be replaced. A silent toilet leak will waste from 30 to 500 gallons of water per day, while the ones you can hear will waste much, much more.
   • Waterless urinal work completely without water or flush valves. The waterless urinal is touch free, improves restroom sanitation and eliminates odors. A Waterless fixture can save 40,000 gallons of water per fixture per year. Virtually splash-free surface along with odorless, easy-to-maintain performance.
2. Choose new energy efficient products
   • Water heater - older water heater can waste 27% in energy and provide less hot water.
   • New Heating system - New high-efficiency heating system can often cut your fuel bills and your furnace's pollution output in half. Upgrading your furnace or boiler from 56% to 90% efficiency will save 1.5 tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year if you heat with gas. US Dept. of Energy
   • New ac system - old unit can waste up to 40% of your energy. Average home consumes more than 2000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, causing about 3500 pounds of carbon dioxide and 31 pounds of sulfur dioxide to be emitted at the power plant. US Dept. of Energy
   • Whole building power ventilator fan can replace all of the stale air every two minutes with fresher outdoor air.
   • Front load clothes washer uses 40% less energy than standard washers and uses 18–25 gallons of water per load, compared to the 40 gallons used by a standard machine. EnergyStar
3. Help avoid A/C or furnace breakdown and wasted energy. Reduce energy bills up to 12% or more. Stay safe and save with a precision a/c and heating tune-up.
4. Programmable thermostats is one of the easiest ways you can save energy, money, and help fight global warming. Lower heating & cooling utility bill 3% to 14% a year. Save automatically.
5. Bottled water swells plastic trash, uses 1.5 million barrels of oil to make the plastic and can cost $1.28 to $2.56 to over $7.00 a gallon. Learn how pure filtered water from your faucet can add convenience and savings.
6. Plug air leaks. According to the EPA and Energy Star, you can save up to 10 percent on utility bills just by plugging air leaks.
7. Energy Star fluorescent light bulbs uses about 75 percent less energy than standard incandescent bulbs and last up to 10 times longer. If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.