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Wheelchair Accessible Toilet Installation

Bob meets Gerry Folan a plumber who is installing a specialized toilet. Phil Boggs from Kohler discusses the unique features of the toilet. It is a high line toilet that is ADA accessible. It sets 18" above the floor whereas a normal toilet rests 14" from the floor. This extra 4" allows a wheelchair user the ease to get up and down from the toilet. Bob also looks at an ADA lavatory with the drain towards the back of the unit and it is made to extend over the cabinet vanity so a wheelchair can get under the unit.
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Wheelchair Accessible Toilet Installation

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" can tell us a little bit about these what makes this toilet different. Sure -- this is that it caller hi I'm toilet which is there -- accessible for the eightieth American disabilities act. Now law requires that toilets be eighteen inches from top to see them not also true not all toilets are standard coats actually fourteen and a half inches. What the eighteen inches does it. It allows for someone in a wheelchair that disability. That's like something -- on and off point oh these here. So this is sixty plus 216 and a half plus two with the COK we have. Now the design. The water closet looks a little bit there to be in terms of that just the general shapes and things that you look at here. What you have a little bit more China because what we've done is we've still the toilet up from the floor actually tank type things where -- normally happen. Portland homes -- someone comes and it doesn't look like a commercial unit that you have to have to fit for disability. And what about the -- to have -- all of these toilets are required to use. And I wanted to half gallons about a year ago the federal laws kick in at all states that you don't have. So Kohler a lot of -- in -- Teddy -- that. And we've got some studies show that the average household they switch over to a gallon half toilets. With more people that are saved 11000 gallons per toilet per year that's -- it's it. Clinton's. Now is there any other feature besides the hot that makes this an 88 well I don't want. No other biggest thing at the height of the world that's that's one thing happening. And what about the -- The way it works the way questions in the -- wolf Kohler experience -- it had to design -- we had seen columns -- in between happy -- toilet. Couple things that allow us to do that are. The biggest thing we glazed trap way in which this year which exactly where it's always -- along the inside of the actual track we we actually go to this to a license plates in that trap way. That's an extra step but it. It helps -- perform much better. And it has its literally had classes inside track what you just like you have coming out thank you very slick surface no protection at how does that waste go talk to -- Right this is a siphon -- And that means that first watching action news west it actually. Excitement and it starts to carry a waste out of the trap way yet the second stage of that watch he's written what steps we put deposition holes all around program. Repetition Kenya 360. Degree watch him just like newel post release gases swirling there -- to have you Hussein saying. There -- okay wolf you know. Nomo might not -- comes with punching -- And that has to go on first before you can put the the wax seal for a -- election let's see you. Instead they don't."

" OK it's very simple that you want to make sure you don't over tighten anything because after all there's vitreous China. Too much tour and you could crack it. Now is the -- can be too long yeah this forceful LaMont so that caught in what way tuna hats -- him hell and junior acts of war."

" This is less -- tying the teeth into you know it's almost a straight line up and down is almost. But of course. -- Just gonna trim off quarter inches up that would have been. Now would you be putting any kind of bend into the feet by young have to put an abandoned to have most -- this wonderful looks and in truth but it's best to. Daylight time you knew by hand yeah I can do that relentlessly small. That we both ends will fit into these female and if you will straight angle the Austrian and for the front and unit. Let's -- tough month."

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" What I -- Kohler toilet yes I hit the 360 degree. What's down just like steel coil inside it's what's on the hole that keeps everything nice clean."

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