Sanitary ware selection is a pivotal step in bathroom design, for both aesthetics and practical purposes. When you decide to change the toilet and the bidet without undertaking restructuring works, the plumbing has to be reckoned with and you must necessarily adapt to the constraints arising from system dimensions and configuration, and namely:

For the toilet:

• Distance of the floor drain (wall to centre hole) or the wall drain (height from floor to centre hole);
• Height of water inlet hole (floor to centre of hole); 

For the bidet:

• Centre distance between hot and cold water inlet holes

On the contrary, if you are going to restructure the bathroom, you are free to proceed according to your needs and your preferences. But what are the characteristics and advantages of each type of installation.

Wall-hung, back-to-wall or floor-mounted?

Increasingly popular, wall-hung toilets and bidet are very convenient in that they facilitate cleaning, especially the floor, take up less space, and are aesthetically beautiful and current.

Among the top-rated models we should mention the iconic Link collection and the sanitary ware lines only available in wall mounted versions: Spin, Nile, Flag, Bonola and the recently designed Fluo.

Compared to traditional floor-mounted models separate from the wall, back-to-wall toilets and bidets facilitate cleaning, since there is no space for the dirt to build up between the ceramic and the wall, a spot that is particularly hard to reach. Even from the aesthetic viewpoint, the improvement is appreciable: pipes and unions are enclosed in the ceramic, concealing the connection between the sanitary ware and the plumbing. Over time, back-to-wall toilets and bidets have almost entirely replaced the floor-mounted models separate from the wall,which nowadays are only installed where old-fashioned plumbing systems do not allow the installation of back-to-wall toilets and bidets and no solution can be found. Many are the collections of back-to-wall sanitary ware proposed by Flaminia, their style ranging from modern, as in the case of  App, Astra, Monò, Quick, to classical, as in Efi and Madre.

In most cases it is possible to install back-to-wall sanitary ware even if the plumbing system is old thanks to a technical innovation known as technical curve.  In Flaminia’s catalogue, the toilets with Plus drainage system will adapt to existing plumbing fixtures without requiring masonry works.

Visit our website and discover Flaminia’s wide range of toilets and bidets.