• Lanusensei87@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Toilets typically take the water from the reservoir/tank from there, and the waste goes straight down, unless this is a sideways variant I’m not familiar with.

    Edit: the connection is still whack either way.

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      3 months ago

      It’s a toilet with a rear outlet, not uncommon at all I think. When installed on an upper floor, they are less intrusive on the living space below it.

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      3 months ago

      I’d say the water for the tank is coming from the hose into the tank in this case.

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          3 months ago

          Funnily enough, I think that is an up flush toilet with the macerator part removed and 90 put on instead.

          Likely made it a urinal.

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            3 months ago

            Redneck-engineered urinal is the only thing that makes any sense, right? The shape molded into the porcelain makes me think it’s not a “normal” siphoning rear-discharge tall toilet (though it could be… I’m not a plumber). Still, if you have a slow trickle coming into the tank through that jury-rigged connector where the flush lever should be, and no flapper or working fill valve, then yeah, it could work as a urinal. Wasteful though, and absolutely inviting disaster if a guest needs to poop.