If you were water bill went up by 1%, would you make a fuss? Probably not. You’d just figure you used a little more water than you did during the previous billing cycle.

But what if it went up by 17% from one cycle to another? And you were reasonably sure that there were no dramatic upticks in your home water usage. Then would you be upset?

Well, Connor Plumbing is here to tell you that taking action is a whole lot more productive than merely venting a little steam. In fact, whether your water bills are going up or not, now you can look forward to annual savings on your water bill up to 17%. How? By converting one older toilet to a dual-flush model. Dual-flush toilets, as the name implies, have two buttons vs. a single handle. One button is for liquid waste only (half flush), and the other for liquid and solid waste combined (full flush).

A half flush uses only 1.02 gallons of water. That’s truly amazing when you consider that a standard toilet uses 3-7 gallons per flush, depending on when it was built. Okay, you might say, but “What about the low-flow toilets I’ve been hearing so much about?” Well, those are great water savers, too, but dual-flush toilets out-save them, and by a considerable margin.

Let’s do the math. Most low-flow toilets use 1.6 gallons per flush. With a dual-flush toilet, a full flush uses 1.53 gallons while a half flush uses only 1.02 gallons. That’s a significant savings, regardless of the source of your comparison – standard or low-flush toilet.

As for the amount of water you’ll conserve, let’s assume you use the toilet an average of 5 times a day. If so, you personally save nearly 600 gallons of water per year with a dual-flush toilet. For a family of four, that works out to 2,400 gallons per year. annually.

Another benefit of dual-flush toilets is that most models have a larger trapway than conventional toilets for removing waste than conventional toilets. That, in turn, reduces the likelihood of a clog.

For more information or a free quote on a new dual-flush toilet for your home, contact Connor Plumbing today: The Choice of Generations.