I was skiing this weekend and saw this toilet at the hotel:
It is the Geberit Monolith. A bit like the iPhone of toilets as it is thin and glossy. I thought it would be useful in bathrooms with not so much space.
Anyone have one of these? I was a bit concerned about maintenance and whether it required custom spare parts.
We have one. Answer is â yes, and yes. Expensive maintenance, âad-hocâ expensive maintenance products (or guarantee expires), and custom spare parts that you can only order through Geberit. (and installed through one of their ânetworkâ, if out of guarantee)
Pray that is not one of the x% that (for some reason) do not come out 100% OK out of manufacturing.
OtherwiseâŚan almost âreligiousâ experience 
I have had one for a couple of years.
No problems so far.
About spares, I suspect if it goes wrong then self repair is off the table.
It needs an electrical connection so I have a couple of meters of cable to the nearest socket.
Burying a cable in the wall seemed like too much work especially if I could not find matching tiles.
I wasnât sure, but thought that only the âplusâ model required electricity.
I have to draw the line at having my toilet be wifi connected and having an app to control various functions!
If you have the model with arse shower which I recommend then you need power
Probably also for decalk cycle
Soon youâll need a subscription to flushâŚ
And here I am, a techie using an episiotomy squirter.
how much maintenance is the decalk. I ask because i had a model with the shower but i was a bit lazy to do the manual de-calk and in the end it chalked up and stopped working.
maybe newer versions are more automated and just require you adding chemicals every now and then.
Photos not required
It blinks a light when needed
Add chemical
Start the process
20/30 minutes later it is all finished
From what I understand the monolyth is just the vertical block at the back that holds the cistern - the actual toilet seat/cuvette is separate and you can choose what you want
Many bathrooms here have the cistern built in behind the tile wall for a cleaner look, the monolyth is useful if you still want the clean look without making a fake wall.
Inside the monolyth is a standard Geberit cistern I think.
Shower or other toilet features depend on the seat and can be connected to both systems.
Spare parts you can find at Sanitas or Hornbach
Are you sure it was because of limescale? We also have an old model which we inherited from the previous tenants. It needs zero maintenance and cannot be descaled. I donât know how many years it was used before us, but we are using it for 9 years without problem. And we have very hard water, especially in winter.
Updated our Geberit shower toilet last year. Great circular flush and a tad cheaper than the original 18-year old model - BUT donât sit on the closed lid. I did and it bent the hinges and stopped the damped closing.
Called the engineer, who knew immediately what the problem was. He wanted the charge CHF150, but when confronted with the fact it doesnât say âdonât sit on the lidâ and he confessed he had replaced a number of lids with the new model, we struck a deal on descaling fluid and replacement air filters insteadâŚ
We have hard water, I assume it was limescale, but I guess it could also be an internal filter somewhere that got blocked up.
We have also had a problem with a hinge once. Due to poor design the toilet has a user detection sensor in the right hinge in which it also has a damper. If this hinge breaks you have to replace the hinge with all the electronics inside. And you cannot just buy this part from Geberit. They donât sell it. You have to call their engineer and pay for his travel and work (5 minutes), although my husband could have replaced it himself and save money. And you cannot buy this part anywhere else. We only found it in some shops in EU but the delivery was not cheap and with all the customs and fees it wouldnât be much cheaper anyway.
You have to be very careful when you clean you toilet in the area of the right hinge. Do not use any cleaning solution that can get inside the hinge and damage the sensor. Also never push on the lid to close it faster.
WTF? A toilet seat lid should be strong enough to sit on.
I cannot imagine how sitting on the closed lid can damage the hinge. The most important thing is not to force close the lid and let it soft-close slowly by itself. Same with a toilet seat.
We installed a water softenerâŚ2500chf done and dusted, around 40chf in regenerative salt per year. No more issues with hard water.
I was the short metal piece that joins the plastic lid to the 2 cylindrical rotating âhingesâ that bent.
I have perched on the toilet lid for years and had many a pleasant conversation from there - but due to poor design and cheap materials those days have passedâŚ
Do you still keep some unhardened water e.g. for cooking?
We donât fully soften the water..otherwise soap wouldnât lather. But it is still much better than the local hard stuff. The expensive coffee machine appreciates it.