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Flush-Wiser™ – Reducing Water Use By Your Toilet Without Affecting Efficiency…
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Salamander Engineering has launched its new Flush-wiser™ unit – a unique way of reducing water usage by pre-2001 toilets without any loss of efficiency. The unit has just won the Innovation Award in the British Institute of Facilities Management FM Excellence Awards 2008.
All pre-2001 toilets hold between 7-9 litres of water depending upon age. To effectively flush, you only need to use 6 litres of water, so it’s easy to see that each flush is wasting between 1 and 3 litres of water.
Flush-wiser™ pays for itself in less than 5 months, based on average water savings by reducing the amount of water per flush from around 9 litres per flush to just 6 litres per flush. When you consider that on average, every person in the UK uses 150 litres of water a day and 60 litres of this are used on toilet flushing, investment in a Flush-wiser™ – which lasts for the whole lifetime of your cistern – begins to look like a steal!
Flush-wiser™ works by allowing your cistern to fill with air rather than water, ‘conning’ the system into ‘thinking’ it’s full with water. Because the Flush-wiser™ is fixed to the siphon, it doesn’t interfere at all with the toilet’s flushing mechanism and it’s totally adjustable – with five different settings – the higher the setting, the more water you save.
To fix a Flush-wiser™ you simply need to drill a 7mm hole in the top of the siphon after ensuring the water supply to the toilet is turned off and the cistern is empty. Insert the Flush-wiser™ in the hole and line up the number on the unit to select the water saving you want.
For installers and householders looking to save energy, save water and save money a Flush-wiser™ is an easy choice to make. As well as saving huge quantities of water – and the costs associated with that – the costs of disposing of a cubic metre of waste water include the usage of 0.905 Kwh of electricity which produces 0.404 kg of carbon dioxide – so using a Flush-wiser™ actually helps reduce your carbon footprint too.
Flush-wiser™ is targeted predominantly at home use, but can be used in offices, public toilets, schools, hospitals and any buildings where public toilets see the use of huge quantities of water every year for flushing, saving on water bills for those responsible for maintaining the public toilet facilities. A Flush-wiser™ unit is only 44mm by 38mm in size and weighs just 8 grams.
