5 hr toilet installation

[bunnymendelbaum]

It took us 5 hours to install this toilet today.

Omfg. Some of that time was spent minding children, but not much.

I DO NOT recommend the kohler persuade circ toilet. The instructions are horrible. Missing steps, steps in wrong order, not listing everything you need, not having a parts includes list, etc.

Plus, it appears to be kohler because the box absolutely did not seem resealed, but we were missing 2 parts and had an extra part AND an extra hose in there that was too short to even work.

I went to Home Depot 3x's.

When things started to get confusing, I googled and all I found were people complaining about this toilet. Including professional plumbers saying it took them 3 hrs. That at least made us feel better.

A normal toilet installation takes about 20 minutes. This one looks pretty sweet, but I'm just not convinced it was worth an extra +4.5 very frustrating hours of our time.

I peed in it for the first time and then DH and I hugged. Ha! We were a little too happy to be finished maybe but damn!

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Feb 24, 2013 19:43:12 GMT -5 bunnymendelbaum said:

It took us 5 hours to install this toilet today.

Omfg. Some of that time was spent minding children, but not much.

I DO NOT recommend the kohler persuade circ toilet. The instructions are horrible. Missing steps, steps in wrong order, not listing everything you need, not having a parts includes list, etc.

Plus, it appears to be kohler because the box absolutely did not seem resealed, but we were missing 2 parts and had an extra part AND an extra hose in there that was too short to even work.

I went to Home Depot 3x's.

When things started to get confusing, I googled and all I found were people complaining about this toilet. Including professional plumbers saying it took them 3 hrs. That at least made us feel better.

A normal toilet installation takes about 20 minutes. This one looks pretty sweet, but I'm just not convinced it was worth an extra +4.5 very frustrating hours of our time.

I peed in it for the first time and then DH and I hugged. Ha! We were a little too happy to be finished maybe but damn!

This is the greatest sentence I've ever read on this message board.

Glad you finally got that thing installed. I'll make note to not purchase that one if and when we redo our bathroom.

[pitterwoo]

it does look nice! at least there's that.

[sassystace]

loved the part about peeing and giving DH a hug. 3 trips to Home Depot?! Glad it is in now and it looks nice.

[TBM]

It does look nice.

[ssmjlm]

Ok this post makes me feel a bit better. We have seriously had THE WORST LUCK with installing kohler toilets. I thought it was us, but maybe it's them.

It is a pretty toilet though.

[auntie]

It looks great.

Maybe ease of installation is part of the Toto-love around these parts.