Live Saniflo Units in Showrooms!

Walter F. Morris Company Showroom - Read Full Case Study

Premier manufacturers’ representatives like Walter F. Morris Company have a mission not only to help move high-quality products through the wholesale channel but also to educate the various plumbing, HVAC/R, and kitchen and bath design trades on how these products can be properly used. These industry trades often discover new product solutions at local showrooms but are left wondering how a product functions or why it might be a good fit for an application.... Saniflo SFA assisted in finding a solution to this problem with Walter Morris.

Providing Walter Morris the ability to do live demonstrations in-house showroom whilst allowing them to:

• Invite distributors with no showrooms are invited to stage their own training sessions for their plumber-customers.
• Present to plumbers and remodelers looking for stock items to promote to property owners.
• Offering small remodeling companies use the showroom to train their own sales personnel before subbing out the plumbing & HVAC work to other contractors.
• Overall it simply promotes the Morris showroom lines!

Saniflo SFA is helping make this a reality by working with ?Walter Morris?Director of Showroom Sales Scott Chiras. After multiple discussions Chiras concluded that using Saniflo SFA’s?Sanibest Pro?would be ideal for demonstrating Saniflo SFA’s above-floor plumbing solution as well as handling drainage for other working fixture displays. But Chiras talked with other wholesale partners about the unit and its features to ensure he was selecting the right unit. They readily confirmed his decision.

[Click to find out what convinced Director of Showroom, Scott Chira]

Of course, the Sanibest Pro in the new Walter Morris showroom would not operate as a conventional working toilet. Instead, it doubles as a straightforward working display while handling gray water drainage from the two working bathtubs: an air tub and a freestanding model.

After making his selection, Chiras called Geoff O’Leary of?O’Leary Plumbing & Heating?to help with the installation. Fortunately, O’Leary was well-versed in the technology, having worked with?the Edison, NJ-based company?and its products throughout his 20-year plumbing career.

“I’m very familiar with the Saniflo product,” says O’Leary. “It’s so user-friendly, and I’ve installed many in the past.” Read full Case Study

Plumbing wholesaler Lee Supply - Read Full Case Study

Lee Supply remodeled outdated branch showroom, choosing Saniflo SFA’s Saniswift Pro drain pumps to provide drainage for working faucet and coffee-bar sink display. The result: A more compelling showroom display plus a live demonstration of how above-floor plumbing can affordably meet everyday application challenges.

Since 1949, Lee Supply has provided the highest-quality plumbing, HVAC, water treatment, appliances, lighting products, and services to customers throughout the Midwest. Whether providing the newest products or implementing the latest technologies, Lee Supply prides itself on a willingness and ability to adapt, putting them at the forefront of innovation.

In that same spirit, Lee Supply recently remodeled the showroom portion of its South Bend branch. The showroom’s original location was on one side of the building with limited square footage. So, explains Aneston, part of the reasoning behind the project was to expand the showroom’s footprint by turning old, underutilized offices into additional display space.

Updated with a completely new layout and look, several new appliances and two new working lavatory faucets.

“One of our faucet lines, Brizo, gave us a Frank Lloyd Wright lavatory faucet to display, with hopes of us having it work,” says Aneston, who oversaw the entire buildout. The remodeling plans also included a coffee bar with a functioning sink for associates as well as one for their showroom. Both units are discreetly concealed in cabinets beneath the sinks.

However, they didn’t have the necessary plumbing lines nearby to accommodate the water drainage from the faucet. the Saniswift Pro solved this!

“The space has all concrete flooring, so installing conventional plumbing lines would have been too expensive,” Aneston says. That’s when Bob Sapienza, a Lee Supply sales representative, recommended installing Saniflo’s above-floor drain pumps.

Sapienza knew this application would require an above-floor plumbing solution to provide the proper drainage for the faucet and coffee bar sink, while avoiding the expense of breaking concrete to install plumbing lines. Lee Supply has been a supplier of Saniflo products for a few years, and was confident the new?Saniswift Pro?drain pump would be the ultimate solution to handle the drainage.

RESULTS: Aneston hired a local plumber to install the Saniflo Saniswift Pro drain pumps and says that while they were working on the plumbing portion of the project for a few days, it took them only one day to complete the rough-in part of the installation.

“After the faucet was hooked up, the installer finished the connections to the Saniflo units in only 10 to 15 minutes,” she says.

Aneston considers this a successful installation of a Saniflo product that Lee Supply can now showcase to plumbers and other visitors to their showroom.