I’m actually serious, which button is the right one? Why are there two?
Also should a Pic of a toilet be considered NSFW?
IT IS FOR WATER CONSERVATION: The larger lever is to flush out around 6 to 9 liters of water, whereas the smaller lever is to flush out around 3 to 4.5 liters of water. Clearly, the larger one is to flush solid waste and the smaller one is to flush liquid waste.
That’s very informative thank you! Might have to look into these myself for when/if I have the chance to buy a house in The future.
Get a bumgun/bidet hose, best thing ever for butt cleanliness and general ring health.
Gotta say if you’re going far enough to do some additional plumbing, you might as well go the whole way and get a Japanese toilet.
No other toilet compares since
I still prefer the pipe, for flow and power alone.
It’s quite difficult to find them in the west though. Depending on where you live.
I thought it was one for pee, two for poo.
Yes, in practicality, this is it.
The one at my gas station is labelled I and II.
I just push both, to be safe.
One extra feature most of these have is small=3L, large=6L, large but hold the button down=9L.
I hope those volumes are discharge and not…err… discharge
The small one’s Stun, big one’s Kill
OP: “How do I push a button?”
This is so wholesome, never be concerned about asking questions like this. Most folks are lurkers, I’m sure your question educated more folks than you realize. Be well out there.
Personally I think I could have worked out a 2 button system myself via trial and error. It’s hardly a high risk activity.
Then how DO you use the 3 seashells?
Are you american or what?
Yeehaw, I sure am.
Welllllllll howdy!
Perhaps you could say how American toilets flush… presumably they’re sufficiently different that they don’t work like what you posted ?
Lever on the side usually, internals for residential and commercial comodes are very different. Most arn’t super water efficent, but maintenance can be done by just about anyone. (American here, Euro style toilets are just better)
The design couldn’t possibly be more intuitive without a turd icon.
I find the buttons with a small and a large droplet on them a little more clear, though from experience i know the small button is usually peepee mode
Lol 💩
It’s a smaller button inside a larger button (sort of), the smaller (right) button you push to flush your urine and the larger (left) you push to flush your excrement. I’ve used these many times but if I’m honest I’ve never actually been sure if they work.
Allow me to introduce you to the scientific method.
Observation: The buttons are different sizes. Hypothesis: The size of the buttons could indicate the amount of flushing that occurs when the buttons are pushed. Experiment: video record the amount of flow resulting from the pushing of the one of the buttons. Wait 60 seconds. Record the amount to flow resulting from the pushing of the other button. Wait 60 seconds. Record the amount of flow resulting from the pushing of both buttons simultaneously. Then compare videos. Conclusion: __________________
ITT: A lot of Lemmy users showing their true colors. Someone asks for help, for information, and y’all decide to mock.
OP: one button does a full flush, the other does a half flush. In your picture, the button on the right, does the half flush. Button on the left, does the full flush. Full flush is usually just x2, though I don’t think that’s a hard rule.
I explained it to my kids like this:
1 button for #1.
2 buttons for #2.TIL, I always pushed both
The point of these things is to save water on a smaller flush when you only pee.
Looks like this one breaks the rules. Only the big button works.
Actually the little button sends an SOS to local authorities, so chances are the little button works fine and you have an incoming SWAT raid with paramedics and police surrounding the building.
These swat raids are getting out of hand!
ITC: username checking out. It was a really dumb question
Ultimately I think my question, being smart or dumb is irrelevant, it brought activity to the community and that’s a great thing I think. The bad thing was the memes. The ‘how do I flush this’ posts kinda got wild.
A question is a question… Just answer the damn question without judging it.
Better let someone know what the thing does instead of forcing them to experiment with it and (possibly) break it.
It was a very low stakes experiment. I wasn’t going to say anything until the high and mighty came to shame those razzing them about it
This is boringly not always true, for a while some genius, probably Elon Flush, decided to invert the functions so that when you pushed the bigger button you got the small flush.
Nothing like developing trust issues after taking a massive shit I suppose.
A lot of the comments are making the assumption that the buttons are telling the truth about being different sizes, but I’ve flushed plenty of toilets where both buttons do a full flush. If you can’t tell the difference after experimenting, it might just be broken or cheap tat.
The way these flush mechanisms work is adjustable. It’s entirely possible that someone adjusted them to have both have similar volumes for whatever reason
Actually, after using the toilet, only the big button works, the smaller one does nothing and both doesn’t change anything.
Edit: Spelling
Bigger button is for solid waste, smaller button uses less water for liquid waste.
“I took a double button press of a dump.”
If you only need the little button for your shits you need more fibre in your diet.
Is that common?
Nowadays I just don’t know anynore. I find toilets where it’s swapped.
I also want to say that I grew up with toilets where the bigger button is the one for your more common usecase - liquid waste. Oftern the smaller button is set up to push the bigger button as well - to clean solid waste.
If using a new toilet, I always try out the bigger button first, since it’s easier to press and typically uses less water.
The right button is the right button.
Button press it! Which one you say? Any of the two if not enough press again the same or the other. hope it helps.
The toilet I am currently sitting on has a very similar set up. The toilet came with the house, and I haven’t been able to discern a difference in the 8 years I’ve lived here.
