Sloan Flushmate

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For some reason, my church has a LOT of these. The maint guys tell me they
break often, and are constant stream of complaint calls.

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<gzentefis@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Very disappointed with Sloan Flushmate. 3 years ago I bought 3 pressure
assisted toilets for my home and 8 for my business. The toilets are made by
American standard with a Sloan Flushmate pressure tank. Just recently I
received a recall card. Apparently the tank can crack at the seams and even
explode. So I called with the S/N and they send me a repair kit. When I
opened the box I started laughing, then I got angry. They had a pressure
regulator and straps to go around the tank. Obviously they do not trust the
regulator and this is why they send the straps. I’m surprised they did not
send duct Tape.
I called Flushmate and they gave me the run around telling me it was
approved by so and so and she even through a few government departments in
there.
I try to buy US made products thinking there better made and they will stand
by their product, I paid top dollar for those toilets. I should have bought
Chinese product for ¼ of the price and just change them every 5-6 years.
I got a pressure assisted toilets for a reason. Save water and still do the
job with the assistance of pressure. So now I have to install a pressure
regulator and drop the pressure, so now my toilets will not do the job that
where intended to do. The flushmate employee was telling me that they will
do the job, trust me they don’t. Dropping the pressure from the house to the
toilet from 60 PSI to 25 PSI has a big difference.

[harryagain]

<gzentefis@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:a2e5fa65-aa7b-4ee4-a327-750082e43531@googlegroups.com...
Very disappointed with Sloan Flushmate. 3 years ago I bought 3 pressure
assisted toilets for my home and 8 for my business. The toilets are made by
American standard with a Sloan Flushmate pressure tank. Just recently I
received a recall card. Apparently the tank can crack at the seams and even
explode. So I called with the S/N and they send me a repair kit. When I
opened the box I started laughing, then I got angry. They had a pressure
regulator and straps to go around the tank. Obviously they do not trust the
regulator and this is why they send the straps. I’m surprised they did not
send duct Tape.
I called Flushmate and they gave me the run around telling me it was
approved by so and so and she even through a few government departments in
there.
I try to buy US made products thinking there better made and they will stand
by their product, I paid top dollar for those toilets. I should have bought
Chinese product for ¼ of the price and just change them every 5-6 years.
I got a pressure assisted toilets for a reason. Save water and still do the
job with the assistance of pressure. So now I have to install a pressure
regulator and drop the pressure, so now my toilets will not do the job that
where intended to do. The flushmate employee was telling me that they will
do the job, trust me they don’t. Dropping the pressure from the house to the
toilet from 60 PSI to 25 PSI has a big difference.


Rather surprisingly They sell/sold these in the UK too. They are a years
old firm, we had no problems with them. They were tank fed but in a ten
floor building, so worked at 50 psi or so. We always had good service from
the company, they worked direct from the USA. The only parts ever needed
were new diaphragms. The rest was very substantial bronze castings. All
very nicely machined up.

The mod offered is a reasonable fix. So long as the tank has not actually
split it will be OK. Probably the shock load is the problem as these
valves close. Obviously it is a cock up, must be quite embarrasing.

[CRNG]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:42:47 -0700 (PDT), [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] wrote in
<a2e5fa65-aa7b-4ee4-a327-750082e43531@googlegroups.com> Re Re: Sloan
Flushmate:


You thought wrong.


Yes, that is exactly what you should have done and what most people
now do.

When you buy high-price American, you a paying the price *now* for a
*promise* of quality that isn't usually delivered.

[dbirkawhite411@gmail.com]

Our firm has filed a class action lawsuit against Flushmate as we believe the "repair kit" does nothing to repair the problems with the flushing system. We are interested in talking to owners of Flushmate III systems housed in toilets by manufacturers such as American Standard, Kohler, Gerber, and others. If you would like to discuss this further, please contact our officetoll-free (866) 474-9999 or [Only registered and activated users can see links. ].

On Monday, July 30, 2012 9:42:47 AM UTC-7, (unknown) wrote:

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On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 11:51:15 AM UTC-7, dbirkaw...@gmail.com wrote:

They say that it’s made in The United States but I have serious doubts about it. I think that it’s probably assembled in the US but the parts I’m betting are made in China. I would appreciate it if anyone who has first hand knowledge would either confirm or contradict my theory.

[sms88]

On 8/21/2012 1:46 PM, [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] wrote:

The pressure regulator in the repair kit does not reduce the pressure in
the tank, it reduces the rate at which the tank is pressurized. It will
take longer to refill the tank between flushes, but that's about it.
Probably they found that pressurizing the tank more slowly reduced the
likelihood of an explosion.

The stainless steel band that goes around the plastic tank keeps the
tank from catastrophically exploding, but it does little or nothing in
terms of stopping leaks in the tank.

Kind of odd that the screw holes for the metal band were already in
place on the plastic tank. I suspect that they were going to include the
band as part of the original product then decided to save money by not
putting it in.