I guess we're all familiar with airplane/ship toilets, where you close the lid, press the button, there's a big "whoosh" sound and the flush is over in one second.
On our recent vacation we stayed a night at a Renaissance hotel near the Newark NJ airport. The toilets there looked like regular Kohler toilets, standard amount of water standing in the bowl and all that, but when you flush them there's that familiar "whoosh" and flush is over instantly (whether the lid is up or down).
I'd never seen a standard toilet do this, so I took the cover off the tank to investigate.
There was no water in there. Just a black plastic tank with a hose going into it.
I copied down the brand name on the thing: Sloan Flushmate. In studying their website, it says it uses the water pressure of your input water line to build up the air pressure that does the flushing. They claim it's clog-proof and never requires more than one flush, which are appealing claims. The fact that this huge hotel chain is using them tells me they probably live up to their billing.
It did indeed seem "powerful" and has a certain wow factor. I'm just not sure how people would feel about the different sound of the flush.
Drawback: they won't work with just any toilet. You have to have or buy one of the models they work with.
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ANyway..they have totally redesigned the toilets. one slight push and voila...gone...totally different from those we replaced just 10 years ago. Takes getting used to..but very efficient for just being the "normal" model.
