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Jun 21, 2025 2:49 PM
Costco Members: Toto Drake 2-Piece 1.28 GPF Comfort Height Elongated Toilet
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Interesting. I'm 6'1"/32" and the regular height is too low for me. I wouldn't expect those two inches to make such a difference.
And it's been that way for two years already: https://slickdeals.net/f/16932046-toto-drake-two-piece-tornado-flush-toilet-241-41-free-shipping?p=1659
Thnx OP.
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Ha, I was thinking the same as I read the comments. I get the guy who has bad tenants flushing trash down the toilet, but what is everyone else doing?
Ex: https://www.lowes.com/pd/KOHLER-E...5013595669
I've been looking around and the mid range American Standard and Kohler seem to be perfectly fine choices. Consumer Reports even said one of the Home Depot house brands is good.
Top two toilets in all "have used it/ own it" opinions. American Standard isn't on the list. Not what they use to be. Not so great with low capacity flushing of massive dumps, cheap though. Kohler was the other popular brand with its Drake 2 competitor Super Flush mechanism. However, even though it's original advertising said you could flush a bucket of golf balls down it with ease, they are now being sued in a class action for that false claim, and have removed it from their advertising. Because somebody actually tried to flush a bucket of golf balls down their toilet and it farked up their pipes and they're suing. I don't poop golf balls, so I was going to purchase the Kohler, but I kept reading reviews where folks said the flush mechanism stopped working correctly after some months and when they called support they were told there was a design flaw in Kohler's super flush mechanism. There would be a fix for it sometime in 2025 or 2026. Meanwhile, hold the handle down for three seconds every time you flush to make sure enough water goes through the bowl from the tank. Fark that.
I went with the Drake 2. Japanese engineering. Tornado flush (it swirls the bowl like a slide at a waterpark). Comes in 1.28 gpf and 1.6 gpf (that seems to be the highest capacity flush you will find with most brands now). I went for the 1.6 (poops matter). Flushes great. Japanese engineering.
Anti stick coating. This is supposed to have that. Keeps poop splatter from sticking to the side of the bowl. My experience is that if you have the splatter shits. Some poop is possibly still gonna stick to the side of that bowl. It did that with my old American standard too, though. Regular biscuit dumps. No problem whatsoever. Power loader dumps – two flushes. I have had no clogs as of yet, but if you poop an entire ham. Results may very. I have a friend that bought his ToTo Drake 2 from a plumbing boutique store a few years ago for twice of what I paid for mine. He swears by that no stick porcelain glazing on his. Says nothing sticks to the sides. He warned me that you can't use abrasive cleaners or a scrub brush to clean the Drake. Nor can you use those Clorox like tank cleaning pucks. It jacks up that special anti poop stick porcelain coating. Clean the bowl with some Dawn dish soap and some TP or decorative toilet sponge.
Toilet height: I was really worried about this when I was buying it. They are standard height toilets and chair height. The difference is like and inch to 1.5 inches. They make some even taller for special needs and elder folk. The Drake 2 is NOT noticeably higher than normal. The height of the seat you put on the toilet will make more of a difference. Trust me, if you're more of a heavy American frame body type, then you will appreciate the subtle extra height when you bend back to plant yourself for business. Measure what you currently have and then compare it to the stats on the height of the Drake 2 and you will be surprised that there's not that much difference.
Installation: Everything comes with the toilet, including the fill and flush mechanisms inside the tank. It does not come with mounting bolts that hold the toilet to the floor. You will also wanna pick up some toilet placement floor shims. Just in case your floor is a little uneven, or the base of this toilet extends out a little further than your previous one, which was my case. Not a bad idea to also grab a beeswax or similar ring for the poop pipe connection. Do not buy the no wax or gimmick connectors they sell at the Home Depot. Those things are known to leak. The wax ring is still the best. You will need two people at least to install this toilet if you think you can do it yourself. If you have a buddy that has installed toilets, then bribe them to help. If they have pro grade level experience installing bride them even more. Booze or Perhaps something medicinal. Dinner after they wash their hands. Or just spend the $200 to $300 to have your TOTo professionally installed by a licensed plumber. They do this crap every day and that should only take one to two hours for them. Something goes wrong. They come back and fix it. Also, the Drake toilet does work well with third party non Toto bidet seats.
Final thoughts: (On this long ass exhausting breakdown you probably did not expect to be reading and God help you if you respond to this and it copies the whole damn thing to put it at the top of your snarky comment. Which I will likely find hilarious regardless.)… I luvs my Japanese engineered, manufactured in Mexico (stamped on the base underbelly out of sight so you won't be judged by visiting friends that look for it) ToTo Drake 2. Flushes great every time. Handles all types of poops, but sometimes you gotta flush twice because when you use hot sauce on 2/3 of your daily meals, there's less water in that bowl and stank gonna stink. So, get some air freshener... for guests. Tank refills really fast. I was surprised. Some inside tank wipe down needed if you've had the air canon poops or splatter craps. No more than average though. Toilet Height is not an issue. I had a party the weekend after I installed my Drake 2. Made sure everyone knew they were breaking in a new toilet and that I had gone all bougie sparing no expense for their poop comfort by having a "Japanese engineered" Toto installed in my bathroom. It was used by various body types, genders and ages. No one complained about the height or flush. If I could have had a speaker play the song from the Toto Toilet episode of "Southpark" every time someone sits on the seat, I would have. Look that up on YouTube if you haven't seen it.
I think Costco is only selling the 1.28 version of this toilet with the elongated seat. A lot of people prefer the elongated seat. More room for one's junk to dangle without getting a free car wash. However, if it's just a little bit more money, get the 1.6 GPS. If you buy it from a box store inspected carefully to make sure the porcelain did not get cracked in shipping. I ordered mine from Lowe's and they used FedEx for the delivery. It came packaged very securely.
Ex: https://www.lowes.com/pd/KOHLER-E...5013595669
See my incredibly long, winded, rundown, and review of my experience, dealing with the exact same query that you had. I went down a rabbit hole for two days, researching this. I was ordering the Kohler with the super flush until I went to Reddit and saw actual user experiences. Hater is gonna hate, especially in reviews. A lot of the reviews I saw gave low ratings because they ordered online and upon delivery the porcelain was cracked. Or so on. Originally, I thought I was just gonna go buy an American standard to replace the 1980s American standard toilet I previously had. Apparently they just make really cheap crap for box stores now. All the low flush stuff sold now pretty much sucks. So you pay some extra and try to find a 1.6 GPF toilet and there's not that many on the market. Good luck. Hopefully, my long winded review posted somewhere further down in this thread will aid you on your poops journey.
Thanks shlanker! I really had to stop myself from replying to your toilet manifesto because I wanted it posted again in full. I also appreciate your full use of the thesaurus of poop words.
I kept going down a rabbit hole as well, but always got tired of it before making a decision. Thanks for your novel of 💩! I think that has swayed me to pull the trigger (or handle) on the japanese/Mexican TOTO.
Regarding maintenance. The flapper on any toilet will need replacing. Our water is so hard I'm lucky to get 2 years out of one. 5-7 years? I'd be thrilled with that.
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