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How to choose a WC?  Surely someone must have figure out a way to test and score the effectiveness? Yes, there is! An organisation called MAP. This is a test lab cater for the north Americans: USA and Canada.  I can't find other setup like this for Europe and certainly nothing like this exist in Asia. MAP uses Soya Bean paste for testing.  Since 2005, Miso paste has replaced plastic ball bearings in toilet testing.  There are two things to look for, one is Water Sense certification and the other is MAP score. WaterSense certification calls for a maximum volume of 4.8l and 350g of waste removal.  This should be the basic requirement everywhere.  MAP score measures the performance: how much waste it can remove.  MAP score of 500 means 500g and 1000 means 1kg. Most of the brands in the database are American.  The ones that come up frequently and available in Singapore are - American Standard, Kohler and Toto. A search on one-piece, ...

The toilets are so small! Ahh!!! Common Toilet Common Toilet Ewe... The pipes are so gigantic.  The master bedroom toilet is equally pathetic... Toilet in Master Bedroom The sink is so puny and then there's all these humongous pipes.   For sure, we are going to rip out everything in the master bedroom toilet.  Just need another inspection with the contractor to see if we could overlay the tiles (save money) or we need to take out the flooring.   How to put in a larger size sink?  This sink is definitely too small.  To use this everyday would drive me crazy.