When we used to have our " band house," when we all lived in the same place and had our studio...we had a half bath with a special toilet bowl that was sensitive about how much crap you could flush.
So....whenever we auditioned new guitarists, we always had them used that bathroom. If the toilet backed up, we knew they were too full of sh* t to work with
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OH....and on the same topic....I have a 400+ pound woman as a tenant, who also has one of those medical conditions where she uses the toilet A LOT.
When she moved in a few years ago, the toilet bowl in her bathroom was pretty close to the wall...fine for normal sized asses but apparently she could only get one of her ass cheeks onto the bowl without having to REALLY struggle. So, what happened was, between her weight and the struggling to fit onto the bowl...the wax ring got crushed and the bowl started to leak. Naturally, she was too embarrassed to say anything. She also had two sons and her mother living there. By the time they finally mentioned anything about a leak, it was nearly a year and the floor was rotting out. GGGEEZ.
So....I ended up having to cut the entire bathroom floor out to replace it. The way the building was plumbed right there, it was impossible to relocate the 4 inch toilet waste pipe...so, I ended up changing the toilet bowl out for a corner toilet that installs on a 45 degree angle....plenty of room for ass cheek overhang, so to speak. EEWWWW
I reinforced the floor by tripling up the 2x6 floor joists under to bowl area. Then, I used full 3/4 inch birch plywood in TWO LAYERS for the floor...PLUS a third piece of 3/4 ply in the corner area, as a separate raised section under the bowl!! THEN I added those big aluminum 3 foot handicap handles, one on each wall to the sides of the bowl and lag bolted into the wall studs, so she could grab on and lower her fat ass onto the bowl....rather than just plop on and crush the wax ring. PLUS I found a hard rubber ring that replaces the wax one, apparently made for other wide loads to sit on. Then I topped it all off with one solid sheet of the thickest vinyl flooring I could find, so no liquid could leak thru stress cracks in tiles.
But it was a BIG project and rather disgusting, so I figured I'd overbuild it once so I would not have to do t again. It turned out to be quite a research project to figure out how to solve the dilemma.
The ceiling is a drop ceiling because it needs access to the second floor bathroom pipes. So, I jokingly told the woman that "it was not possible to install a block and tackle to lower her onto the bowl."
She's actually a really nice woman and jokes about her weight...a working single mom. Ironically, she is the top money maker at a telemarketing research company...she sounds like a young, hot babe on the phone. She said she will be dead if they ever install videophones.....
We nicknamed her new toilet "the Large Marge,". No shit. (Um, actually, quite a bit I imagine
