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speedmor (MA)
Toilet calls for 12" rough in, which is what I have. Yet toilet tank back is 2 1/2" from sheet rock wall. I think this is not acceptable. Any comments?
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m & m (MD)
Agreed. What is the dimension with the tank lid on?
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North Carolina Plumber (NC)
Sounds like you have a 10" rough in tank. I'm not sure about the Kohler Cimarron , but a lot of manufactures use the same bowl for a 10" + 12" rough in, and use a shallow tank to get the 10" rough in.
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KCRoto (MO)
I would get out a tape measure and see if it is actually a 12" center on the toilet flange. Measure from the bolts to the wall, not the baseboard.
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speedmor (MA)
With tank lid on dimension 10 1/2" to flange center. I notice that the tank is pretty much flush with the back of bowl. I think I have a bowl with a 10" rough in even though the box says a 12" rough in.
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speedmor (MA)
I answered the first post, but I did not know this about tank configuration. This tank is almost flush with back of bowl. Exact rough in: SR to bolt holes on flange is 12 1/2"
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Tomsplbg (IL)
I'm by no means a Kohler fan. Wouldn't surprise me at all that they put a 10" rough tank in a 12" rough box. Do yourself a favor and get another brand of fixture all together. I can't wait for Kohler to go out of buisness.and if they keep putting out the top quality garbage they do it won't be long....
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KCRoto (MO)
I always thought the Cimarron was an ingenious innovation. Removing the tank to bowl bolts and having bracket to bowl bolts instead was out of the box thinking. It removed the most common two points of water leakage on a toilet, but still left it easy to assemble, disassemble, move, or whatever you need to do. I wish other toilet manufacturers would follow suit on that particular innovation.
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vic (CA)
Overall Kohler porcelain and cast iron I see as still above average and so if considering replacing it with a different brand toilet (unless with Toto) I'd be cautious as to what to replace it with.
Now that American Standard (which had a lot of "unstandard" parts and in many cases wasn't made in America) is owned by a Japanese company I have hopes that they will improve and become a decent competitor of Toto and Kohler as in capitalism to work "best" the consumer need at least 3 strong competitors.
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Union Fitter 66 (NY)
This is actually typical nowadays due to the tanks being smaller due to water regulations. The best thing to do is buy a 14" rough toilet. In that case you'll only have a 1/2" gap.
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