4 Reasons To Make The Rimless Toilet Switch
If you've visited a brand new or a particularly luxurious home lately, you may have seen the latest and greatest in toilet designs and not known what it is. If it looked sleek, modern and even futuristic, it was probably a rimless toilet. But what is a rimless toilet, and why should you bother making the switch?
The standard toilets that we're all used to - after decades of daily use! - are actually technically known as the 'boxed rim' toilet design. So when it comes to a rimless toilet versus the traditional boxed rim version, the difference really is all about the rim - and, predictably, the rim is simply no longer there with rimless toilets.
What was the rim for, anyway?
You'll obviously find the rim at the top of the bowl, and it's never been there for aesthetic reasons - because most would agree that the rimless version is much more attractive and modern looking. But with the boxed rim toilet, the rim was there for a critical reason - to evenly distribute the flushed water in a controlled, downward direction.
With the modern toilet, the rim is gone - exposing the entire bowel to the toilet's top edge. Now, the flushed water is intelligently propelled downwards in a vortex, achieving an even more efficient flush with no need for a rim at all.
If you're looking to buy a toilet these days, you may notice that rimless are the toilets to buy if what you want is an uber-modern look. But if that's not a good enough reason to go shopping for new toilets, also consider:
1. Built-in hygiene
With a standard toilet, it's really up to you and your elbow grease to maximise hygiene. With a rimless toilet, the design itself does a lot of that work for you.
That's because a boxed rim, with all its out-of-sight and hard-to-reach recesses and curves, is hard to clean - providing plenty of places for germs to hide and thrive.
But with a rimless toilet, the advanced flush does a lot of the cleaning for you.
2. Easy to clean
And when you do need to clean rimless toilets, which is less often than before, it's much easier to do. Sure, cleaning the toilet may never be fun, but at least with a rimless toilet, it happens quickly and easily with no more nooks and crannies to get stuck into and less grime build-up.
3. Cheaper to use
The good news is that because so many consumers absolutely love this modern toilet, prices these days are comparable to the old boxed rim design. And, in many cases, a traditional toilet is actually harder to find and therefore actually more expensive than a rimless toilet.
Better still, the direct flushing action with a rimless toilet uses water more efficiently, so each and every flush is saving you just a little bit of money - and it all adds up once the water bill arrives. And those flushes will continue to get cheaper and cheaper as the vortex flush principle is aggressively developed by competing manufacturers.
4. Endless toilet design options
With a boxed rim toilet, the presence of the rim limits the scope and creativity of the aesthetic design - which is probably why you spotted that first sleek-looking rimless toilet in the first place. And it's not just all those cool new shapes and sizes, you can also buy a toilet in the rimless style in the configuration you want, whether:
- Wall-hung
- Wall-faced
- In-wall cisterns
- Back-to-wall & more.
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