The bathroom was the last room
technology forgot.
We are fixing that, and we are not charging twelve thousand dollars to do it.
Every other room in your house moved forward. The kitchen learned to talk. The living room dims itself. The front door knows who you are. And then there is the bathroom, where the single fixture you use more than any other has not meaningfully changed since 1890.
Meanwhile, in Japan, a heated seat with a washlet has been ordinary for thirty years. Not luxury. Ordinary. Eighty percent of homes. The technology is not new, it is not experimental, and it is not fragile. It is simply absent from American homes, and the reason is price.
Why it costs what it costs
Walk into an American showroom and ask for a smart toilet. You will be shown something at three, five, sometimes twelve thousand dollars. Nothing inside it justifies that. The ceramic is ceramic. The pump is a pump. The seat warms to the same temperature as one costing a fifth as much.
What you are paying for is distance. A brand office, an importer, a distributor, a regional rep, a showroom with a lease, and a plumber's margin on top. Six sets of hands between the production line and your bathroom floor, each one adding a percentage.
We removed the distance. We specify the unit, we own the container, and we deliver it ourselves from a warehouse in Fort Worth. There is no importer, no distributor and no showroom standing between the production line and your bathroom floor. The product does not get worse when you take those out. Only the price does.
What we actually designed
We did not invent the smart toilet. We did decide what one should be for an American home, and then we had it built that way.
It fits your house
A 12 inch rough-in, because that is what American plumbing uses. An S-trap floor outlet. A standard 3/8 inch supply. No adapters, no compromises, no ordering a part from overseas six weeks later.
It runs on your power
120 volts at 60 hertz, on a NEMA 5-15 plug, with the GFCI built into the cord. Not a 220 volt unit with a converter taped to the back of it.
It obeys your law
Flush volumes under the federal 1.28 gallon cap and under California's limit, so the same toilet is legal in all fifty states.
It is built to last
Grade AAA porcelain, the highest of the three Chinese grades, from a maker that has done nothing but sanitaryware for twenty years. Five years on the body. Three on every electronic part.
Convenience should not be a luxury good. A warm seat on a January morning, a wash instead of paper, a lid that opens before you reach it — none of that should cost more than a used car.
Where it is made, plainly
In a ceramics region that has been making porcelain for a thousand years, at a plant that opened its doors in 2006 and has made sanitaryware, and only sanitaryware, every year since — twenty years of it, for export markets that do not tolerate slack. Halo is the American name on the front of a line that has been in production longer than most of the brands it sits beside.
Engineered in the USA. Made in China. Both of those are printed on the carton and we are not going to be coy about either. The engineering decisions — the rough-in, the voltage, the trap, the flush volume, the remote — were specified here in Texas for houses here in Texas. The manufacturing happens where the best sanitaryware plants in the world are, and has done for twenty years.
Where we are
Dallas–Fort Worth. Not a drop-shipper, not a marketplace listing, not a phone number that rings in another country.
There is a warehouse. Your unit sits in it. If you live in the metroplex we will bring it to your door ourselves, and if you want, install it and carry the old one away.
If something goes wrong, you email us and a person here answers.