I had seen a Home Depot ad a week or so ago for a high efficiency toilet for $88. I was searching on their website to see if the ad was still available, and saw a link for local rebates. Clicking the link redirected me to a Fort Collins utility page about the city's toilet rebate program. Provided the toilet is labeled Water Sense Meets EPA Certification, the city will credit $35 for mailing in the receipt, and $15 for recycling your old toilet and providing documentation to the city. The offer is good for only two toilets per household.
The $88 toilet did qualify from Home Depot. Total for the two toilets with tax was $190, with $100 to be credited back from the city on future water/electricity bills. That equates to a cost of only $90 for two brand new toilets, and the savings do not stop there!
The two toilets replaced were more than 20 years old, and used 3.5 gallons per flush. The new high efficiency toilets require only 1.28 gallons per flush. A family of 4 averages 20 flushes per day, requiring 70 gallons with the old toilets, but only 25.6 gallons with the new toilets. That amounts to a savings in water of 44.4 gallons/day, or just over 16,000 gallons/year!
Based on roughly what Fort Collins charges for a gallon of water, the reduced water usage equates to a savings just over $34/year. Of course as the price of water increases in the future, the amount saved per year will also increase. Not bad for a toilet that only costs $45 net of the rebate!
Follow up everyone regarding the rebate(original blog post was beginning of March), I received the latest water/electric bill from the city of Fort Collins about 3 weeks after applying for the rebate, and my bill was only $19.02($100 credited by the city as part of the rebate program)! The processing time was about one month for the city to apply the rebate. Really a great deal, not to mention pretty slick how the newest technology of toilets work!
Frank Glenn
CMarie Property Services
http://www.cmarieproperty.com
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