Pink Throne

I was cleaning our Pink bath room today. It’s all original to our almost 80 year old house. The grout is original and in perfect condition, the tiles are all perfect. They may not be in style, but it is so well built I hate to change it. When we redid our primary bathroom our contractor told me that he had never seen such a well built bathroom and hated tearing out our old tub because it had an eight inch cement base that he said could hold a tank.

So as I was looking at our pink, low toilet I noticed that the seat could use replacing. I have not begun the search for a new matching one. I just remember our good old plumbers telling me once that we might want to replace the toilet just to get a higher one.

I have never understood why in the world anyone needs to replace the porcelain part of a toilet unless is is cracked or has a hole. How can the porcelain go bad. Yes, the workings inside the tank can need to be replaced or the wax ring, but why the throne?

Now styles change. Like higher and longer toilets now. And then there are the fancy toilets with heated seats and built in washing contraptions. Those are just things that can break. But the basics of a regular toilet should not change.

I am not in the market to change out my pink toilet, only the seat. As far as flushing goes it works great. It is basically over a hundred year old technology and I don’t anticipate getting what goes in it out of the house in a new and different way in my lifetime. If it ain’t broke…