We installed a Drake 6 months ago and it works very well. (No clogs, flushes completely on the first flush.) We wanted a Toto and when we asked the plumber's advice about several different Toto models, he said he had a Drake in his house. I figured that's the best recommendation you can get. (-:

marie-louise, after agonizing over the decision for months, and having as recently as last week been sure that I would order cast iron, I am about to order the Archer (soaker; no jets) tomorrow. You are lucky to have a place like Tubz. I have dragged around to more than half a dozen bath showrooms, and each had only a few tubs for me to try. I tried the Archer on Friday, and went back and tried it again on Saturday. It is, as you say, very very comfortable. I have found that I don't usually like lumbar support (strange lump at bottom of tub slope), and the reason I went back was that I saw the drawings and noticed the lumbar support. I went back to make sure that it was comfortable. Somehow the lumbar support doesn't bother me, maybe because it is minimal. For those who are wondering, I am 5'8" tall, and my feet don't quite meet the end of the 5' long Archer. The width is something like 32" and that is plenty for me (and I am not, alas, thin!) I was, at one point, on the brink of ordering a 24" deep tub. Then I learned how difficult it is to get in and out of. The Archer is a good compromise - the high overflow slit means that it fills up more, so you get a good DTO with a low tub height. It is also very inexpensive - I was quoted under $300 for 5' long. Oh, and I somehow became sold on acrylic in the last week - a combination of reading posts here, looking at the tubs, and learning from salespeople. Hope your reno goes well, marie-louise. My contractor started Friday, and demolition is almost done.

I bought ALL of my Toto stuff: 2 sinks , 3 Ultramax, 2 wall mount basins from toiletwarehouse.com Absolutely wonderful experince. They e-mailed me with the conformation #'s , e-mailed me when it shipped, and FedEx driver called with the approximate time when he was going to be delivering them. Nothing was cracked, in fact all of the stuff was perfectly handled, with foam all around the boxes so they could not move. The price was very good also. I think it was the cheapest I found on the internet and my local supplier could not match it, so I went with them. The shipping charge was good, and I did not have to pay sales tax... Always good... Anyway, just my $0.02

I never heart of a Toto toilet but I need to look into this as I need to replace three toilets that are over 24 years old. My bathrooms sinks, tubs and American Standard toilets are a bone/Navajo White type of color. I wish I could change everything to white but that would be too much work to change everything. I wonder what colors they come in?