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Extend it, use more water, and get fewer aerosols into the air. That's the point of his post. If you have C. diff. and don't want to spread it, it's probably w
by calt 4y ago
Extend it, use more water, and get fewer aerosols into the air. That's the point of his post.
If you have C. diff. and don't want to spread it, it's probably worth it to spend (not waste, spend) the extra water for a slower flush if your toilet will work that way.
- ars 4y agoThat's .... not what will happen. Instead you'll get the exact same regular violent flush, and then water will pour into the tank extending the time that water can aerosolsize, and worse, pushing any existing aerosols farther out into the room. So basically that's the opposite of what you should do, if that's your goal. Instead, reduce the flush time. Try it: hold down the flush lever and time how long it takes before you can smell the water.
- calt 4y ago> hold down the flush lever That's not what's being suggested. Slowly open the valve by slowly pressing the lever to let some water in before the valve pop all of the way open.
- ars 4y agoI don't understand what goal that will accomplish. You might wash the walls of the toilet slightly, but that's not where the bacteria are, they would be in the center, in the bulk of the material. Plus toilets are designed to prevent you from doing that, they try very hard to be either fully closed, or fully open. And, even if you succeeded, by releasing some water in advance, you reduce the pressure of the flush, which would elongate it, instead of rapidly removing the material, and time with water flowing = amount of aerosol. This plan seems counterproductive.
- iudqnolq 4y agoI suspect you're used to much more modern toilets than the person you're replying to. Toilets from at least a decade ago in the USA don't feel like they're designed to try very hard to do anything contrary to the direct mechanical effect of you pushing down a lever.
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