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I bought this Santeri West because of the combination of low price and more or less normal appearance for its price category. Disappointments began with unpacking - despite the complete integrity of the factory packaging (I did not check the contents in the store, but I had to), the lid of the tank turned out to be cracked in half, despite the fact that it was in a separate bag made of peppy plastic, and I did not find any signs of impact. I took the toilet out of the store myself (and carefully!), I considered it useless to return it to the seller with a complaint.
I glued the cracked lid with superglue, jammed the hair with cracking putty, and it would have turned out almost imperceptibly if it had not been for the absence of a single fragment, which was not in the bag, which suggests that the lid was banged at the factory.
After installation, at the first flush, it turned out that water flows on the floor between the tank and the body - a factory gasket made of a material similar to polystyrene (and completely unlike rubber or silicone) does not really seal anything. Moreover, its shape raised doubts that it was generally for this model of toilet bowls - when installed through bolt holes, it did not completely block the drain hole, I had to modify it with a knife and reassemble it all with sealant. In addition, this gasket is so thick that even with well-tightened tank mounting bolts, this same tank still wobbles, well, there’s nothing to remove from the gap between the tank and the upper plane of the toilet bowl, where dust, water drops, and probably even drops which is worse. Special thanks to the manufacturer for the kilometer-long bolts, it’s so convenient to twist them for five minutes each, bending into three dooms!
The first days of using the toilet revealed another defect, which was the last straw in the decision to throw it all in the trash - when draining the shit does not sink into it! Absolutely! The tank is fully adjusted, but what about the tank - even just a bucket of water poured into the toilet bowl is not always able to send waste products to the sewers! With a regular drain, it is sometimes impossible to solve the problem even from the third or fourth full tank! In general, Santeri West is wasted money and time. I would recommend it only for public office toilets, where the water spent does not matter, and for a time-consuming installation there is a full-time building maintenance engineer. This toilet is really a “toilet”, both literally and figuratively.
pros
Price, appearance. All fittings, cover and fasteners included. There is no surge, although it is not indicated anywhere.
Minuses
A disgusting drain with which you can only flush urine. The fittings are all ultra-budgetary, it’s good if five years work. In my case, there are problems with the integrity of the parts, despite the packaging.
