What makes a toilet flushing system so important, doesn’t the water carry the waste anyway?
The different flushing systems are important to the toilets because it assists the water carry the waste away. There are gravity flushing systems and pressure assisted flushing systems. Typically gravity flushing systems are more popular since it is what you have been used to using. Gravity flushing systems use different siphon pressures to move the waste out of the bowl and down the p-trap. The other flushing system is pressure assisted. This is an complete mechanism inside of the tank that uses pressure much like shaken up soda pop to move waste away. The benefit to the gravity flushing systems is that replacement parts are readily available where as the pressure assisted toilets require a professional plumber for technical issues.
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