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On installing new water-saving tiolets (JIM) I've got two bottom-of-the-line $46 Home Depot flushers in my house, and they both work quite well. The thing is, they have to be installed with greater care than old water-wasters; the extra water made installation *much* more forgiving.

- First, make sure the waste line is adequately sized. When we removed the old toilet in our house we found it had a 2" (that's TWO-INCH) line attached. Make it at least 3" (4" would be better, but that would require that your septic line be 4" all the way out to the street; if your main is 3", it's against code to install a reducer)

- Second, make sure there's as straight a shot as possible from the toilet to the sewer main. Our upstairs bath works great because it's sitting on essentially a ten-foot straight drop before it rounds the corner to join the main

- Make sure the waste line is adequately vented

Jim's Toilet Story