The toilet is the most essential feature of a bathroom suite, yet it’s often overlooked by many customers during the design process. However, with a selection of toilet types available, there is a style to suit every bathroom.
The Bathroom Showroom offers a helpful guide to help you select the best toilet for your customer's bathroom.
What Customers Need to Know Before Installing a Toilet
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Before buying a new toilet, it’s important to get a measurement of the size of the bathroom. This will ensure that the toilet type chosen can be accommodated and that there’s enough floor space for easy access and comfortable manoeuvrability.
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The direction of the soil pipe of the existing toilet is also an important factor, whether that be horizontal, vertical, or to the right or left. As certain toilets can only be positioned in a specific position, this can impact the toilet type chosen. For those customers who wish to move their toilet to a different location, a reconfiguration of their bathroom will need to be considered to see if their space can accommodate this.
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Many toilets now offer several features that customers may want to consider when choosing their toilet. These include soft close and quick-release action, rimless pans, comfort heights, eco-designed dual flush cisterns, and standard or slim seats to name a few.
What Are the Types of Toilets?
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Close Coupled Toilet
The most common toilet type is the coupled toilet. Timeless and simple but conventional, this design has evolved and improved immensely over the years. An all-in-one unit, a close coupled toilet is a conventional toilet type with the cistern sitting on the toilet itself.
An open back closed coupled toilet is the easiest of toilet designs to install due to the fact that the pipework is visible at the back of this toilet design. Yet, a closed back or back to wall close coupled toilet is also favoured by customers who are looking to hide the pipework. In these designs, the pan goes back to the wall to hide the pipework while making it easier to clean. Such choices are also coupled with a cistern.
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Back to Wall Toilet (BTW)
Another popular design with many homeowners is the back to wall toilet. Most commonly used with bathroom furniture, this design includes a concealed cistern. A simple looking unit with fewer parts on display, a back to wall toilet requires less maintenance and is the easier of toilet designs to clean. Better still, it can help customers with their bathroom décor if the furniture unit chosen adds texture and colour to the room.
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High Level Toilet
Though now seen as a traditional style, a high level toilet is still popular with homeowners looking to renovate and recreate a nostalgic décor. High level toilets are wall mounted and have a low-level floor standing pan. The cistern is high-level and connects to the pan by means of an exposed flush pipe. To flush, this toilet type is finished with a lever design or a pulley.
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Wall Hung Toilet
Gaining in immense popularity, a wall hung toilet creates the illusion of more space as light is able to flow freely underneath it. Promoting a more stream-lined look, a wall-hung pan requires a frame when installing in order to support the toilet.
The Bathroom Showroom has several renowned bathroom suites collections with a choice of all these toilet types including iflo, Roca, Ideal Standard, Geberit, Roca , Heritage, Atlanta, and VitrA.
If you're looking to shop toilets for your customer, speak to us at the bathroom showroom. With over 280 showrooms and a renowned history of working with the trade, we're the experts in all things bathrooms.
