New toilets help stop flushing dollars away

Filed under: Bargains, Home

holidays are just around the corner and if there’s one appliance that’d better be gracious after the onslaught it’s the toilet. while many household fixtures require repair or replacement, one that’s getting renewed attention thanks to the collective green-living consciousness is the toilet. if yours is a water hog, it’s a good forthwith to dream about getting a new entire.

Years ago, if a plumber told you that your family’s hardest working appliance needed to be replaced, you’d have had a right to be skeptical. Historically been darn near impossible for a toilet to actually break, thanks to the typically tough vitreous china and straightforward construction with replaceable moving parts.

But today, water consumption is the big issue, and if any of your home’s toilets date to 1994 or earlier, you stand to save a lot of money by switching them out for the current generation of high-efficiency toilets (HETs). Worlds apart from the low-flow models that debuted in the early 1990s, WaterSense-labeled HETs provide dependable performance on 1.28 gallons of water or less per flush.

According to the EPA, a family of four that replaces higher-flow toilets with HETs stands to save an average of more than $90 per year on water bills and as much as $2,000 over the lifetime of the HETs themselves. What’s more, many local utilities offer special rebates and vouchers to residents ready to make this water-saving investment.

A wide variety of HET styles and price points make it easy to find the right fit for your household, with one- and two-piece design and such features as right-height sizing and elongated bowls. To learn more about HET advantages and browse product information, visit the EPA’s WaterSense website.

Tom Kraeutler is the Home Improvement Editor for AOL and co-author of My Home, My Money Pit: Your Guide to Every Home Improvement Adventure. Tom helps listeners prevent plumbing problems each week as host of The Money Pit, a nationally syndicated home improvement radio program.

New toilets help stop flushing dollars away originally appeared on WalletPop Blog on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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