TOTO MS854114SL#01 Ultramax ADA One Piece Toilet, Cotton White

Cons:- The tank lid is sloped towards the bowl. A guest's cell phone slipped off the back and into the toilet water. Now, granted, they should not have sat it there, but still this is a poor design. You cannot sit anything on tank lid- which a lot of people do.- Some of the items were rolling around loose in the manufacturer's box - my bolt cap assembly is lost forever. I found one but that's it =(- the slow close lid is really just "meh." it makes it take extra time to open and close. Its just a light plastic anyways so its not going to be breaking anyone's fingers if it closed quickly. It will probably be irritating over time.-PLEASE NOTE: YOU NEED TO PURCHASE BOLTS AND TOILET WAX RING TO COMPLETE YOUR INSTALL. not really a con, but some people may be expecting a full kit for the high price.PROS:-Comparing it to other 1.6 gallons, this flushes solid waste very well. If any streaks are present, a second flush will take care of it usually. You really cannot compare a 1.6 gallon to the old 3.5 because they will not perform the same. This is as close as you can get though.-It installed very easily (by me who had never installed a toilet before.)-It has a compact design even though it is elongated. Width-wise it takes up less space than most toilets. The tank height is short as well if you want your toilet to be shorter than a chair rail or wainscoting.- One piece design is definitely more sanitary

Toto Ultramax MS854114SL (SL means it is the tall version)I researched toilets for a couple of months back when we put in our first bathroom. This had great reviews back then and from the reading I did it was the clear winner. I bought this almost 3 years ago and we, a family of 4, have been happy users all this time.I'll start with the most important paragraph then hit the other points in a more logical way...The Flush: I have HATED low-flow toilets ever since they came out. My Grandmother put one in several years before I got this one and it has had nothing but trouble. We have to flush it 2 or 3 times for anything solid. Plus it had weak internals and randomly leak-flushed. After experiencing that P.O.S. toilet I was dismayed at the thought of having to buy my own low-flow and pined for the robust flushes of my youth. Toto had some 1.28 GPF toilets but when I saw they had this 1.6 GPF I marked that down as "necessary". I have no idea how the 1.28s work, but this 1.6 one is GREAT. I have put some monsters down this toilet and there has never even been a slight hiccup. We have never plunged nor double flushed. It is a dream toilet with a supreme flush.Installation: I used a wax-free toilet seal (3 inch) since we have in-floor heating and a wax seal would melt. That was easy as all you do is peal the sticker back off the rubber seal, flip the toilet upside down, paste the seal over the column-hole thingy, flip the toilet back around and lower it onto the hole in the floor while guiding the two screws up through the holes in the toilet base. It took about 4 minutes and there was never a problem afterward.Over all presentation: The lines are clean and it is attractive. The single piece design is super easy to clean and I no longer have to fish sponges, wipies or rags through the tank crack. I originally wanted an enclosed trap design so I could just sponge off the sides, but this is so smooth and easy to clean that it is just as good.Seat height: This is one of very few toilets that I liked that has a seat height above 17 inches (the SL in MS854114SL). I am 6 foot, 180 lbs. My wife is 5'9" (and nobody knows how much she weighs). We are both tall with long legs and the seat height is PERFECT. I feel like I'm squatting when I use standard height toilets now, so be careful if you get this, it will spoil you.Seat: The seat that comes with it is brilliant. You can "drop" the seat (and/or cover) and it will slowly and quietly lower itself into the closed position. Or you can push it down of you are doing the wee-wee dance and don't feel like waiting. Either way, it never slams down and I love not hearing that crash anymore. Additionally, the seat is molded in a way that if you have small children who are learning how to urinate while sitting it somehow catches the pee that passes between the stool and the seat. The underside is curved upward but other than that it is a mystery how it works. I have never cleaned urine dribbles off the front of the toilet but I frequently have to paper off the underside of the seat after my son misses the water. It is a small but nice feature. Lastly, it is amazingly comfortable. My wife wanted to get a padded seat but we waited for some reason and after we used the toilet for a week we have never thought about the padded toilet seat again.The tank: There have been no problems so the only times I've looked into the tank was back when we didn't have running water for a while and I had to manually fill the tank from stored water. My only gripe with the design is that the glue holding the Velcro onto the lid was not stronger than the Velcro, so both pieces of Velcro now stay on the tank side and serve as a cushion for the lid. I would have preferred a tank lid that was molded to fit so the Velcro wouldn't be needed. But it looks nice and it has never fallen off, so it isn't a big deal.I just bought our second Toto Ultramax MS854114SL today to put into our 2nd bathroom which we are finally finishing up this week. I don't know a better way to endorse this than to buy another one. Oh, my Mom loves this toilet now, too, and will be getting several when she and my Dad remodel their bathrooms this summer.____________________Update 25 March 2013These toilets are still going strong. We did have a small issue last month, but it was easily resolved: The toilets both started randomly flowing, making a high pitched squeal. At first, we fixed it by flushing the toilet, but over the course of a couple of months the problem got worse until there was a very small, constant flow after flushing. I initially thought that the flappers had worn out, but when I stuck my hand into the reservoir to do a tactile inspection of them, I noted that they were coated in a slippery film. We have a salt-water system in the house, so maybe it is just a reaction between the salt and plastic, not sure. Anyway, I rubbed the flappers between my thumb and fingers until they no longer felt slippery and, WALLA, the problem is no more. We are still very happy with these toilets.____________________Update 12 December 2014Still happily sitting tall and single-flushing. I had to clean the flappers again this month and the first toilet we bought needed a little special doctoring on its flapper. Due to the slippery film, the flapper had caved in a little and deformed so that it was ever-so-slightly oval instead of round. After cleaning it, it remained deformed which allowed it sometimes flow a little and do that squeal. I emptied the tank, poured in some hot water (not quite boiling), and stretched the flapper in the direction it needed in order to return to circular. I held it there as I turned the cold water back on and let the flapper "solidify" again. I plan on cleaning the flappers every 6 months, squeal or no squeal, to reduce the chance of deforming.____________________Update 24 September 2015The first toilet's flapper is now grossly deformed and constantly leaks, so I ordered a $12.50 replacement flapper: TOTO THU499S Universal Flapper  TOTO THU499S Universal Flapper Installation was very easy and took about 5 minutes. My original pink flapper required cutting of its rubber at the attachment point. The replacement had forks that easily snapped into place. The Toilet Model to be used on the chart on the back of the box is "CST854S(L)(G)" which is Arrow setting 7 (just twist the red cap to the 7), chain length 13 (I simply made the chain taught when the flush handle was at rest), Lever Hole 3 (I don't think this is overly important as it works on any of the 3 holes available on mine).We are back to having the best toilet in the world!Note: I originally spent $439.24 after shipping on this toilet. Current Amazon prices have shot way up. Last week I ordered a 3rd toilet for an addition and paid $472.51 after shipping.

We got one of these toilets 6 months ago and loved it. Going from the ADA height in one room to a non-ADA height in another room showed us how much we really liked the ADA height. We love the way is resets after a flush so fast. The flush is a bit noisy, but only for a very short time.So we ordered another one and eventually got it (see below).Installation on a one piece toilet is very simple. It really takes less than 15 minutes to install. The hard part in replacing anything is removing the old one. That can take a while especially if you have to clean away an old wax seal.With both of these toilets, I used a Fluidmaster wax-free toilet bowl gasket. There are more instructions to follow, but it is less messy and you don't have to worry about lining up the bolt holes in the wax. Then two bolts and one water connection and it is done. If you do mess up, then you can move it without worrying about the wax not working once the seal is broken.Getting the toilet, well that was a different problem..:Amazon shipped the first one, via Fedex somewhere in NY, we are in California. When they admitted they messed up, they shipped another via Fedex. Fedex broke it before it got here. Amazon shipped a 3rd one via UPS. UPS broke it while it was "out for delivery". It took UPS 24 hours to find it (because first they said it was lost) and say it was damaged.The 4th one was shipped via CEVA Freight Management and it arrived in one piece, which is good considering it is a one piece toilet. But it didn't show up the day it was supposed to. Scheduled for Monday, they called and said they lost it, but then found it. So it arrived on Tuesday. (Coincidentally this is the same shipper as the one ordered 6 months ago that arrived okay too.)Amazon was mostly great during this, replacing each one with another one pretty quickly (most of the time). One time I did have to talk to someone since they didn't understand that I shouldn't have to pay again.I wish the toilet was less expensive, but I highly recommend it and do to all of my friends..

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