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Installed one a couple of days ago. Rough-in was exactly twelve inches and the quarter round trim had to be cut off behind the toilet in order to fit the toilet. Heaviest toilet I have ever handled. No place to grip it properly, it has smooth sides. With the double-cyclone flush, it has a very shallow rim which makes it difficult to grab it by the rim.

Servicing it is going to be expensive. Just replacing the flexible supply hose or the fill valve will necessitate pulling the toilet off.

Here is the flush valve, over-engineering at its finest



This is from their Chinese division. Makes me wonder if the Chinese engineers were trying to impress the American head-quarters with their engineering prowess

interesting.

this is a nightmare to service if even replacing the supply hose will require removal of the toilet. Since it is a one piece, does it have a proprietary connection on the back for the fill valve supply that cannot be reached in place because the entire skirt is basically flush with the wall?

I assume none of the tank components can be replaced by any non-OEM "universal" parts.

Perhaps that was the design motivation, not to improve usability or servicibility, but to make it too difficult to make replacement parts by third party vendors like Danco/FluidMasters/Korky.

The fill valve bottom, where it mounts on to the tank, is conventional. The toilet has to be pulled off to access it. There is a four inch diameter hole in the skirt at the back to enable access to reach the mounting nut for the fill valve but the hole is a couple of inches lower, so no wrench or pliers can be used. A socket is needed to undo the nut.
Customer is planning to replace the other toilets in the house. I told him not the get this Kohler.
Since the back is skirted and tight up against the wall, the supply hose cannot be run behind the toilet. There is a hole on the skirt at the side of the bowl to run the hose through.

I'm really surprised that Kohler went this route as recently I replaced one of my toilets at one of my homes with a Kohler Highline toilet and I loved it so much that I've already replaced 3 other toilets to the Highline model.

Future replacement parts for the Highline model will be a basic Fluidmaster 400 and an easy to replace seal as well as a short flush handle. That's about it. I've loved my Toto Drakes however to me the Kohler Highline can't be beat. Not fancy looking .... just a great flushing as well as reasonably priced toilet.

george, there is a round hole on the back of the tank near the top. What is that hole for?

I see the two small holes on the skirt at the bottom of the bowl so those are where you do the flange connections? Looks so small one must tighten with a socket wrench?



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I suppose the round hole is for grabbing the toilet to lift it. As it is, only one finger can be used. It will take a really strong person to lift a hundred pounds with one finger. All the weight of this very heavy toilet is at the back. If I ever have to service this toilet, I will take some rope with me so that the rope can be used through the hole to lift the toilet.
I charge $200 to pull a toilet, so the $200 will get added on to a service call.
This Kohler uses a plastic trap adapter (horn) like some Totos. The side holes on the skirt of the toilet have Phillips drive screws anchoring the toilet to L brackets which are screwed down on to the floor. The screws are easily accessed.




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