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What's activity bottomward in Champion, Michigan? Association of this dot-on-the-map boondocks in the Upper Peninsula are affable the accession of 115 new champions--115 Champion(R) toilets, that is.
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American Standard, the world's better architect of ablution and kitchen products, has appointed tiny Champion, Michigan (pop. 294) as the official home of "America's Best Flushing Families" and is installing 115 of its newly-engineered Champion toilets for a real-life customer achievement analysis featuring accustomed bodies and accustomed experiences.
Starting this month, bounded plumbers began installing the American Standard Champion toilet in 72 clandestine homes and six baby businesses, including the blaze house, Champion Country Store, Aldo's Spices, Champion Lion's Club and alike Sacred Heart Church.
Participating association and business owners agreed to complete achievement surveys and admeasurement their baptize acceptance as they "test drive" their new Champions through the end of the year.
"We've never had annihilation appear like this to our town. This will put Champion on the map," says Berle LaPin, the town's 30-year belt administrator who is accepting two Champion toilets installed in his home. "We haven't had this abundant action about actuality back the town's mining heyday. Association are captivated to be accepting the new toilets, called Champion, no less."
Champion, Michigan: A Boondocks Even with Excitement
Up until now, association of this quiet boondocks accept enjoyed a restful activity amid the ache trees, hiking trails and albino beaches forth Lake Michigamme. Now, abounding of them are even with action about the Champion toilet, which meets customer appeal for a powerful, maintenance-free toilet that does its assignment with aloof one flush.
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An antecedent analysis of Champion association adumbrated that their top toilet annoyance is accepting to even added than once, followed carefully by the alarming chock-full toilets. Of the 80 percent of analysis respondents who appear owning a plunger, about 40 percent of them use it a few times a year, and 23 percent say they accept to get out their plunger weekly.
Luckily, American Standard reinvented toilet technology with the Champion toilet, which appearance America's Best(TM) Flushing Arrangement and around eliminates what these association and added consumers abhorrence about their accepted toilets--clogs, overflows, plunging, handle jiggling, burst flappers, ashen baptize and big-ticket repairs.
"Champion, Michigan is a applicable abode for American Standard to install the Champion toilet and for association to go plunger-free," says Rob Kass, American Standard's carnality admiral of marketing. "Champion association address all the toilet troubles that the Champion toilet flushes away, and they are adumbrative of hard-working, common bodies everywhere. The Champion toilet is additionally aggressive and reliable."
There Will Be No Added Active in Champion
As one of two Sisters amenable for operating Sacred Heart Church, a archdiocese that does not accept a citizen priest, Sister Margey Schmelzle has apparent it all and says "I'm accepting gray beard from bodies saying, "Sister, the toilet is active again!" American Standard is installing two Champion toilets in the baby country church, which swells to about 200 attendees during the summer amusement season. She's attractive advanced to replacing one toilet in accurate ("my botheration child!"), a toilet that is abandoned three years old but "runs all the time." She's additionally captivated that the new Champions will be "environmentally friendly" at 1.6 gallons-per-flush and thinks aggregation will acknowledge the calmly attainable 16-1/2 inch height.
Other boondocks association aggress by toilet trials and tribulations can't delay for their new Champions to arrive. Don Carriere says his ancestors is accessible to "toss their toilet out the window." Their "old and yucky" accepted toilet requires bifold flushes and drips damp assimilate the floor. Jackie Adair, a mother of three, says: "I don't anticipate you should accept to attempt a toilet so often," as her boys tend to clog the toilet about daily. She is attractive advanced to beneath aliment and "not accepting to accept that stupid, animal plunger sitting abutting to the toilet anymore."
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Champion association additionally absolutely bare an acute toilet makeover. On average, residents' accepted toilets are added than 11 years old and don't accommodated accepted 1.6 gallons-per-flush regulations. In a boondocks area best association carefully adviser their able-bodied baptize usage, a added able toilet is a acceptable accession to the household.
Real-Life Trials And Tribulations Create Ultimate Toilet Test
Champion association aren't abandoned in their frustrations. According to analysis conducted by American Standard, about one in three bodies acquaintance approved problems with their toilets, and one in ten affirmation that their toilet's bender and alternation needs to be tinkered with frequently in adjustment to assignment properly.(a)
Residents additionally cope with bath traumas acquired by analytical accouchement or accident-prone adults who end up bottomward awe-inspiring altar into toilet bowls--everything from washcloths, confined of soap and elastic gloves to a toy car, cycle of toilet cardboard and, of course, goldfish. It's these accustomed adventures that association will abduction through several achievement surveys and by befitting a account to agenda the differences amid the Champion and their old toilet.
In acknowledgment for their participation, one advantageous ancestors will win a admirable award-winning of an American Standard bath suite. Of course, anybody gets to accumulate their Champion toilet.
Champion Toilet: A Toss-Out-Your-Plunger Triumph
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American Standard's Champion toilet has a different architecture that allows consumers to bung out their plungers for good. It is the aboriginal in a band of articles to use the new America's Best Flushing System. The toilet comes with a absolute 10-year assurance and several abstruse advances:
-- No added brawl and chain. The proprietary Even Tower replaces the old amphibian ball-and-chain arrangement and maximizes the ability of baptize while application aloof 1.6 gallons in beneath a second.
-- Added power. An added ample even valve lets baptize access the basin faster and added powerfully.
-- Plunger-free. The industry's better carry outlet, after any "choke points," allows added aggregate per even and around eliminates the charge for plungers.
Many Americans, including those in Champion, are advertent the advocate Champion toilet for themselves. Back actuality alien in backward 2003, Champion toilet sales accept exceeded American Standard's expectations. Two out of every 10 American Standard toilets awash today are now Champion toilets.
To see a beheld affirmation of America's Best Flushing System, appointment www.americanstandard-us.com. The Champion toilet is accessible in assorted models at American Standard showrooms, as able-bodied as The Home Depot and Lowe's. Suggested retail amount ranges from $249 - $569, depending on model. For added advice on America's Best Flushing System, the Champion toilet or bounded availability, amuse alarm (800) 899-2614 or appointment www.americanstandard-us.com.
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(a) Analysis conducted on account of American Standard by Caravan(R) ORC International, 2003.
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