Comment on Is there a reason why toilets are made out of one of the most resonating materials possible while also being made in a shape that makes a small fart sound like a damn trombone?

hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Couldn’t enamled metal work just as well? It’s not like you shit into bare porcelain; it’s enamaled.

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  • Regna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Enamel can get chipped and scratched, and if you don’t clean it regularly it will stain and disintegrate.

    Source: rented places with enameled bathtubs and sinks.

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    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You can get them clean again, but I think you basically have to scour them with pumice, which you can probably only do so many times.

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  • StaticFalconar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Part of me thinks metal would.only transmit sound even better than porcelain.

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, you can buy metal toilets. They have them in prisons, usually. I think people don’t buy them because they don’t like the look. I certainly wouldn’t want a metal toilet.

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• T156@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It also usually self-cleans quite nicely through the flushing mechanism. Hence the noise, since it pushes water down the sides to clean it.

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  • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Tell that to the hard water in my town. I’ve tried everything short of a water softener (rental) and basically all it does is delay the rings from one week to about 2 1/2.

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    • Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m surprised the water softener didn’t help more — is there a specific mineral that is extremely present in the water?

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      • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That I don’t know, other than we have a large aquifer under the county that serves basically just our county, that has a cap of clay over it. Supposedly we have some of the best tasting water in the country but it is very heavy.

        But no, I said I haven’t gotten a water softener, because I live in a rental. But I’ve done the little hangry things, the blue pucks in the reservoir, even this damn device that works like a bidet for the toilet that shoots an amount of cleaner with every flush. Nothing works. A water softener likely would.

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• quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Nah, that’s important for something you eat out of.

  Something you shit into can be dirty. It doesn’t need to be clean to accept the next shit.

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You don’t eat out of your toilet?

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• Aneb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  No thanks /s

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