Toilet recommendations? - RV-Dreams Community Forum

cherylbrv · RV-Dreams Family Member

Toilet recommendations?

bjoyce · RV-Dreams Family Member

With only two brands, Dometic/Sealand and Thetford, you won't find much variation on quality and price. We just replaced our seals/gaskets after doing so in November. The seals were shot because we spent all that time in Florida with all the calcium in the water. In the west we seem to go much longer between seal replacement. Ours is a Dometic 511+, which is a low profile. We did replace the whole unit around the 7 year mark when the plastic parts kept breaking, but the replacement was closer to $300. I keep a new seal kit and a new spring kit in my spares, those are the two things I find need changing with little warning.

The water flow sounds like the holes are clogged, probably from before you bought it. You might be able to fix them by pulling the toilet, using CLR (or Limeaway) and wires/very small pipe cleaners to unplug the holes. I don't know, we have not had that particular problem.

cherylbrv · RV-Dreams Family Member

Thanks, Bill. Very good advice. It probably does make more sense to replace the seals again, rather than the whole toilet. I'm disappointed about the water flow, but we will first try what you suggested and see if that works.

Cummins12V98 · RV-Dreams Family Member

cherylbrv wrote:
We're thinking of replacing our Sealand toilet. Not only is this the 2nd time in a year we have to replace the gasket, but it doesn't give a lot of water pressure, and there isn't even any water that flows in the front of the bowl.
Can anyone recommend a good brand that's easy to install, easy to get replacement parts and has a good water flow? (and preferably is under $200)?

If you are using a pressure regulator that is probably the water problem.

Technomadia · RV-Dreams Family Member

Our bus conversion came with an old Sealand... but changing those valves was a PITA, and being 20+ years old it was becoming uber difficult to keep clean.

During our recent renovations, we had a Dometic 320 residential style RV toilet installed. It's an elongated bowl and you can put regular toilet seats on it if you ever wanted to replace them. Our favorite feature however is that the seals can be replaced from the bowl itself... no more taking it apart. That's a feature of most the newer Dometic commodes.

For as much as one can 'enjoy' a toilet, we've been really pleased with the performance of it so far. I believe it's priced right around $200.

ticat900 · RV-Dreams Family Member

go to a porcelain toilit there so so much better than the plastic ones. The water pressure/flow issue sounds like a supply issue and not the toilit itself?

Lube the toilit seal with vaselin once in awhile works for me (toilit seal that is)