Average Years You'd Expect A Toilet To Not Leak

 
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Old 04-03-2009, 12:27 PM   #21
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Re: Average Years You'd Expect A Toilet To Not Leak


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Got it.

So I'm guessing that if you offered a 10-15 year warranty on a project, it would be safe to say if you included covering the toilet from leaks you would be fixing a lot of toilets over the years that would leak that weren't any fault of your own.
Correct.

Also, the worst leaks to deal with are also the ones that are in no way the fault of the toilet or the installation. I've had to take and wipe some of it up for the client to smell.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, then it ain't gonna be swimming in what the pre-teen failed to get in the pot.

Another problem with that type of warranty is offering it on something other than a one-piece toilet. People are weird and some will actually recline and lean against the tank causing a leak at the spud gasket or tank bolts.

There is no warranty on operator error, but trying to convince them that the water is coming from bolts and not the wax will be an uphill battle.

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