The Commercial Washroom

Your Commercial washroom expert

Baker Plumbing spends more than its fair share of time in commercial washrooms. You might say it’s our home away from home. Commercial washrooms are even more important given our COVID environment. 

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Commercial washrooms are specially designed to accommodate large numbers of patrons a day. The commercial washroom must still maintain high standards of cleanliness and sanitation. They are not your typical home bathroom. That’s why Baker Plumbing takes the time, tools and experience to ensure your Commercial washrooms are not a distraction. Your restaurant feel shouldn’t stop at the washroom and Baker will ensure it doesn’t. 

A flushometer the staple of the commercial washroom. Typically, a washroom will have a half dozen or more flush valves keeping sanitation levels pristine. Invented by William Elvis Sloan and the legacy continued by the Sloan Valve Company.^[1]   The flushometer revolutionized the commercial washroom. Innovations have come but the flushometer is still very similar to the original. See below.

A flushometer is a commercial setting fixture, as it provides a high-pressure and better-performing wash and flush than a normal gravity toilet. However, a flushometer requires that the building have a larger supply line than is normally found in small to medium residential buildings, and therefore such buildings typically use tank-type toilets.

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Function of the Valve

The ingenious function of the flush valve is its use of water pressure rather than gravity from a raised tank like in previous models.

The diaphragm separates a pressure chamber from the main water supply. A narrow passageway leads from the main water supply into the pressure chamber. This passage meters the flow by slowing re-pressurizing of the pressure chamber after the action of a flush.

Diaphragm technology allows the flush valve to open and let water into the bowl. The main cylinder valve operates up and down. A groove allows water from the main supply to flow when in mid position. The valve is shut off at both its top and bottom positions.

A second valve releases the water in the topmost pressure chamber when the flush lever is activated, sending the main cylinder valve shooting upwards. The topmost pressure chamber slowly refills through its narrow passageway, pushing the valve cylinder back down gradually. A flush occurs while it is in its open mid positions. Because the water is gradually shut off, slower water at the end of the cycle serves to refill the bowl.

The valve cannot be kept open by holding the flush lever in the activated position, wasting water, because this only sends the main cylinder valve all the way up to its topmost shutoff position. A flush can only occur when the valve is in one of its mid positions.^[1]

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