I purchased this as Home Depot and paid more than twice the price of the "cheap handles". I had a "cheap handle" and it broke a few years after I put it in. I'd rather not deal with toilet mechanisms every few years, so I wanted to buy a handle to last for decades. This device broke at its base about 1 year later, QUICKER than the cheap one I previously purchased!

Handle looks and feels much better than the cheap alternatives, but breaks quicker due to poor stress design.

Seems to be few options for polished brass/gold tone plumbing fixtures any more. This is the only one all metal I have been able to find for side flush toilets. The only problems I had is that the fitting is slotted to allow a very short handle path flush distance, making it finicky for attaching the chains in the toilet, such that much trial and error on setting the chains is necessary. Also, the mounting square of the handle fitting was too large to insert flush into the handle hole on one of my Kohler toilet tanks.

- Looks Great
- Made out of metal, good solid quality not cheap plastic like many of them.
- Snug fit with appropriate rubber grommit to keep the handle locked down tight
- Easy to install

There is no reason not to pick this up if you need a replacement and like the looks of this handle. The only oddity I found with this was that the bend in the arm causes it to stick out pretty far into the tank, but that was not a major hurdle. This is only an issue if your overflow drain(tube that your flapper connects to) is positioned on the front side of the tank (mine was). The solution for me was to simply remove the overflow tube for the fill valve that normally connects to the top of the overflow drain, and simply slide it straight down the inside of the overflow drain instead of connecting it at the top of the overflow drain. Another option if you run into this would be to remove your overflow drain enough to twist it so the actual tube is on the back side of the toilet and not the front. Alternately you could also just opt to bend the handle arm so it didn't stick out quite so far into the toilet as well. But in my case simply moving how the fill valve overflow was connected to the overflow drain was a quick and easy solution to this issue.

Works great. I used this on an angled side-mount, and don't see why it wouldn't work on a regular side-mount as well. The trick is to ignore the directions, which show the angle in the lever arm toward the rear of the tank. This leaves causes the lever arm to be weighted toward the back, which tends to keep upward pressure on the chain, and can cause water to continuously run. It also reduces the length that the chain can be lifted when the lever is tripped, so the toilet doesn't flush. Flip the lever arm over, with the bend as far forward in the tank as you can. This puts more weight forward and downward, and allows the chain to rise a greater distance when tripped. You'll notice that the handles sits more horizontal. Also, install the chain as far toward the end of the lever arm as practical. This maximizes the distance the chain rises. No leaking, and better operation. Happy flushing!

The handle is attractive enough and feels sturdy. However, the degree of travel the built in handle stop allows is insufficient to raise the flapper enough for it to stay open once the handle is released. As a result, when the handle is pushed, the flapper opens and the flush begins. But as soon as the handle is released, the flapper closes completely and the flush stops. You just can't move the handle far enough to correctly initiate the flush. I had to modify the built in stop with a grinding tool. That fixed this issue.

There is a second issue, as well. The handle droops when at rest. That is, once the flush completes, the tank refills and everything is at rest, the handle hangs down under its own weight. I needed to attach a couple of rust proof nuts to the far end of the rod (inside the tank) to weigh down the the mechanism. That caused the rod in the tank to droop, which brought the handle back to its proper resting position (level instead of drooping).

As modified, the mechanism works just fine and the handle looks and feels very good. But such a simple part should work right out of the box and I think not many people will have the proper tool to fix the handle travel problem or the inclination to fix the droop problem.