Can't decide if that is a good title or not. How about "Here's the Scoop on the Poop"?

After supper I googled "American Standard toilet parts" and came up with websites where owners of this same toilet model as we have are complaining about how these toilets always leak - bad gaskets like we have. And the replacements are only available from the manufacturer. Well, we don't have time to order something, plus each gasket (which lasts only 6 flushes according to some people) is $10.00. Apparently it is simply bad design and the only solution is to put up with it and pay large water bills or septic bills, or buy an entire new toilet with easily replaceable parts.

So a $138 Jacuzzi toilet to replace the one that this month cost us $320 in septic bills has got to be a bargain.

We simply don't have the time and patience to deal with all the uncertainty of whether once we fix this American Standard Champion model toilet that is supposed to be able to flush a bucket full of golf balls without clogging would not leak all the time and fill up our septic vault too fast.

It is so irritating because the one we are throwing away cost a goodly amount and because that house hasn't been occupied much over the past three years has probably had about a month's use. We'll try to donate it to Habitat for Humanity thrift store in case someone can figure out how to use it.