Long and Strong: Gerber’s Elongated, Compact Viper

Here’s a remodeler’s rule of thumb: The smaller a room, the harder it is to work on.

That’s doubly true for what’s typically the most vexing remodel room in the house—the bathroom.

So when we see Gerber’s compact/elongated Viper HET (high-efficiency toilet,) we see design details that create options—and functionality that gets the job done.

From a design standpoint, a small commode is ideal for toilet rooms, which themselves are awesome, but also for old houses and basement baths. But small can also be a maintenance headache because, well, guys—and floors and the people who clean them—benefit from an elongated, oval-bowl design.

Functionality-wise, the Viper is WaterSense-certified, providing significant water savings over older toilets. With an exceptional flush requiring 1.28 gallons of water per flush (gpf) it consumes 20% less water than 1.6 gpf models. The Viper’s other bolted-on features like a FluidMaster 400A fill valve, a 3-inch flush valve for quick bowl clearing and powerful bowl-cleaning siphon jets mean that Viper is fast, quiet and as effective as its name suggests.