Top 5 Sanitary Fittings for Modern Indian Toilets & Why Use Them

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A modern bathroom is a lot more than just a place for morning chores. It’s a place where you spend some of the most valuable time – a place for total privacy and freedom. With the right amenities, your modern bathroom can recharge you for the day. Without these amenities, it's just another stressful place that you’d want to avoid. 

If you want to make your bathroom a place of self-rejuvenation and recharging, you need to consider the best sanitary fittings. The best sanitary fittings can several essential and value-added equipment, for example:

  • Wall-mounted toilets and floating vanities for a sleek, space-saving look
  • Frameless glass shower enclosures enhance openness and elegance
  • Single lever concealed mixer diverters connected to overhead rainfall showerheads provide a luxurious experience
  • Sensor faucets combine hygiene and contemporary design
  • LED mirrors add functional lighting and style

Overall, these fittings embrace modern aesthetics, efficient use of space, advanced technology, and comfort, creating a harmonious and visually appealing bathroom environment. However, to begin with, here are a few essential sanitary fittings that form the core of your bathroom functions, and this is where you should pay the most attention.

Sanitary Fittings For Indian Bathrooms (include advantages & disadvantages)

Any modern Indian bathroom must provide a few facilities to be a useful and complete bathroom. The following five sanitary fittings enable these facilities:

Water Closets

Modern water closets need to provide not only hygienic facilities but must also present a pretty picture. At Johnson Bathrooms you can find a wide range of different types of water closets or commodes, for instance:

  • Omni Suites: Mostly floor mounted, one unit consists of the water closet and cistern are inseparable and part of the design. The seat cover is replaceable. Omni Suites generally do not require floor mounting. You can simply connect the outlet to the plumbing and the WC is ready to work.
  • Back-to-Wall Closets: Back-to-wall closets are floor-based water closet bodies with seat cover only. You can attach the closets to a concealed cistern.
  • Wall Hung toilets: Wall-hung closets are wall-mounted versions of back-to-wall water closets. However, unlike back-to-wall closets, these need to be attached to a frame in the wall. Wall-hung closets provide a space-saving floating design that leaves the floor without obstacles. Wall-hung closets need a concealed cistern for flushing.
  • Coupled Closet: Coupled closet features an exposed cistern fixed on the back of the water closet. These water closets can be floor or wall mounted.
  • European Water Closets (EWCs): EWCs are the more traditional design of water closets. These units are fixed on the floor and can be connected to an exposed or concealed cistern. This is the only water closet design where you can find a combination of Western and Indian commode styles.

Wash Basins

Washbasins, like water closets, are a critical sanitary fitting for a modern bathroom. You can choose one of the following designs based on the available space and the bathroom’s interior design:

  • Half-Pedestal Wash Basins: If you want to have something elegant without installing a vanity basin, half-pedestal basins are your best bet. These are wall-mounted wash basins with an extended base that covers the bottle trap outlet under the basin.
  • Vanity Basins: With Johnson Bathrooms you can get two types of vanity basins – only the table-top basin, or the whole bath cabinet with vanity basin. Johnson gives you the option of rectangular, oval, and square-shaped vanity basin choices.

Take care of the size while choosing vanity basins as you would not want to install a very small basin on a large vanity or vice versa.

  • Wall-Hung Basins: Wall-hung basins are one of the most common wash basin designs for Indian bathrooms. The basin does not require a vanity or any base and can be installed directly on the wall. 

Showers

Who doesn’t love a shower on a hot summer day? Overhead showers have that appeal, and you have several options you can try to fit into your modern bathroom design:

  • Rain Showers: Large showerheads of 200mm and above, provide you with a natural shower experience every morning or evening. The latest air-rain shower technology allows a fuller experience even under low water pressure and improved water economics.
  • Overhead Showers: Smaller showerheads for smaller bathrooms, but enjoyable bath nonetheless. Multi-flow options offer more than one way to complete your shower ritual.
  • Handheld Showers: Install as a single unit or as an extension of the overhead shower, handheld showers replicate the overhead showers, plus offer the flexibility of placement and use with their extended cord.

Taps & Faucets

You will need a few different types of taps and faucets to make your bathroom functional. Here are the faucets you need and their design options:

  • Wash Basin Mixer Taps: Based on the type of wash basin you install you can use a deck-mounted pillar tap, a tall pillar tap, or a wall-mounted mixer tap. Single-lever mixer faucets are better as they can be operated with one hand and improve hygiene.

You can also consider sensor taps for a touch-free operation.

  • Mixer-Diverters for Showers & Bathtub: This is a mixer diverter valve faucet that can divert the outflow of the mixed water to more than one outlet. This kind of diverter is often used with overhead shower installation where a bath tap is also required. There are multiple types of mixer diverters you can use:
  • Single Lever Concealed Mixer Diverter: Has a single lever for temperature and flow control. Uses a tip-ton to direct the flow to the tap or shower.
  • Wall Mounted Mixer Diverter: These are exposed mixers with two control levers. You will need to control the flow of both hot and cold water streams separately to control the output temperature.
  • Angle Valves: Angle valves are useful for the safe operation of wash basin faucets and health faucets. You will also need angle valves for attaching and controlling water to the storage water heaters.

Health Faucet & Other Sanitary Fittings

Health faucets complete your water closet setup and provide a hygienic way of cleaning after attending to nature’s call. Other than health faucets, mirrors, ventilation exhausts, and lighting also plays an important role in adding functional qualities to your bathroom.

Build A Modern Bathroom with Johnson

Johnson Bathrooms provide almost all the sanitary fittings a modern bathroom needs. You can be sure to add long-term comfort and elegance to your bathroom with one of the best sanitaryware brands in India.

You can explore online for the latest Johnson sanitaryware products and visit the experience centre to experience the look and feel of the products before buying. You can also consult the expert about your specific bathroom needs and possible solutions at Johnson Bathrooms.

FAQs

1. What are sanitary fittings in building services?

Ans. Building services use several types of sanitary fittings with two being the most common and critical – Soil Appliances and Waste Appliances. Soil appliances refer to sanitary fittings like water closets, bidets, urinals, cisterns, and related fittings. Waste appliances are wash basins, sinks, and related fittings like waste coupling, bottle-trap, etc.

2. What are sanitary fittings and fixtures?

Ans. Sanitary fittings are critical bathroom equipment that supports the intended sanitary chores—for example, water closets (commodes), washbasins, faucets, showerheads, etc.

4. What are the 10 sanitary appliances?

Ans. Water closets, wash basins, urinals, showers, sinks, bidets, mixer diverters, cisterns, and health faucets are the top sanitary appliances for Indian households.