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I've seen some dual flush toilets in the US, though rare. My dad has one, and I don't think he went out of his way. My assumption is that the lack of awareness
by al_borland 2y ago
I've seen some dual flush toilets in the US, though rare. My dad has one, and I don't think he went out of his way.
My assumption is that the lack of awareness would be part of the reason for public toilets to not use them. It's often not clear which button to use, so people just push one at random. We have a hard enough time getting people to flush at all, so adding decisions into the mix doesn't great.
In men's bathrooms, the assumption is probably that a urinal will be used for #1, so it's a safe bet that the stalls are mostly used for #2 (at least by design of the overall bathroom). With this in mind, having a dual flush seems like an unnecessary extra cost.
- Izkata 2y ago> My assumption is that the lack of awareness would be part of the reason for public toilets to not use them. It's often not clear which button to use Instead of having two buttons, there are designs that do the smaller flush by lifting the handle instead of pushing it down. That way people who don't know about it always get a full flush and the people that do can use the smaller one.
- al_borland 2y agoHow would anyone ever know about the pull up action? If push down always works, and pull up sometimes works, wouldn't everyone just push down?