Waterless urinals have become more popular in recent years as many businesses and organizations realize that these water saving toilets can significantly reduce utility bills, diminish the maintenance requirements and help the environment by going green.
Understanding How the Urinals Work
The design is extremely different from a traditional urinal, even though they look extremely similar. Water saving toilets prevent the urine from pooling at the base of the bowl. Using gravity, it flows through a trap where a barrier is formed across the top so that odors are prevented from finding their way back into the bathroom area. The next users and gravity form the rest of the task of consistently moving the liquid through the drainage system.
By investigating the amount of water used in your organization to flush the urinals currently, it will be easy to understand how much money you can save because none of that water will be required in the future.
Older urinals can be replaced simply and quickly and by capping off the water supply. More recent urinals can also be replaced in a similar manner, but you will save less water because, over the years, designs have found ways to use less water to flush the urinal.
Depending on the size of your organization and whether it is public or private, you will be saving thousands of gallons of water every year and potentially hundreds of thousands of gallons.
Water saving toilets will effectively pay for themselves in the first one to three years after installation because of the reduction of water costs.
Your maintenance expenses will also be vastly reduced because you will not have to worry about leaks or damage from a buildup of hard water which can cause blockages in the plumbing system.
You will need to purchase sealant for your traps and replace these regularly, but this expense may be compared to that of reducing completely the number of odor tablets you would have placed in your older urinals.
