What's the real truth about toilets? The toilet is the single biggest water user in your home. That's right. Toilets are the number one water consumer, accounting for 40-50% of all household usage and are one of the most often sources of water loss. Toilet leaks can waste thousands of gallons a month, causing your usage to double, triple, or reflect even higher. Often leaks are silent, going undetected.

Leak detection is simple because the leak is usually in the tank where water is leaking down the overflow pipe and can be easily seen or draining past the plunger ball into the bowl.  Plunger ball leaks are detected by adding bluing to the water in the tank. If the coloring seeps into the bowl within fifteen minutes, a leak exists. Both types of water loss can be corrected easily, inexpensively and should be done as soon as possible in that your water meter is charging this waste to your account.

Toilets should not be used as ashtrays or trashcans because extra flushing, when not necessary, also wastes water.