Why are toilets not joined to the main plumbing via a dedicated, leak proof joint? Something that latches into the toilet and is sealed? Automotive, aircraft, and other industries have high pressure fluid lines. Could someone conceive of an improvement to the current toilet connection?
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Being UK based, the wax ring arrangement always struck me as a lot of trouble compared to what we do over here, which is just push a pan connector with integral rubber seal over the spout on the porcelain.
I guess the difficulty the US would have moving away from the wax ring is that it would involve the waste pipe ceasing to be part of the floor and changing the pan design to have the spout for the pipe to fit onto.
Both of these would be huge changes to the buildings and to the sanitary ware factories and thus impractical.
By the sound of it, the wax ring is mainly effective but I can’t help having a slightly ‘urrrgh’ feeling about the sewage soaking between the ring and floor if the seal degrades over time.
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