Duravit Flush Plates
Duravit Flush Plates
The flush plate is the only part of a concealed cistern anyone ever sees, so it carries the design decision for the whole installation. It is also the service access: taking the plate off gives you the front of the cistern without touching the tiling. This page covers Duravit's DuraSystem actuator plates, both the mechanical A1 in its range of finishes and the touchless A2, along with the A1 plate made for urinal flush control.
A1 Mechanical Actuator Plates
The A1 is the workhorse. It is a dual flush plate with two buttons, a full flush and a reduced flush, and Duravit lists it as mountable either on top of the finished surface or flush with it, which matters if the tiler has already set out the wall. The WC plates here measure 217 x 147 mm on the face and sit only 10 mm proud. Finishes stocked run from high gloss chrome and matt black to brushed bronze and plain white plastic, so the plate can either disappear into a white wall or be treated as hardware alongside the taps.
The Touchless A2
The A2 is the electronic option, made in white single pane safety glass and surface mounted. It has no mechanical buttons at all. Duravit describes the plate as unlit in standby, with an infrared sensor that illuminates the symbols as someone approaches, and the dual flush function is retained. In a guest cloakroom it reads as a piece of glass on the wall until it is needed, and in a commercial washroom the argument for it is simply that nobody has to touch anything.
Matching the Plate to the Cistern
Plates are not universal. A DuraSystem plate belongs on a DuraSystem cistern, because the push rods and the mounting frame are made for that cistern. Check what is in the wall before you order against our Duravit cisterns page, and see Duravit wall-hung toilets for the pans that hang on the same frames. The 130 x 150 mm A1 urinal plate in white pairs with the DuraSystem urinal frame and the ceramics on Duravit urinals.
If you are not sure what you already have in the wall, take the existing plate off and bring it in. The full Duravit range is on display at our Kramerville showroom in Johannesburg, where plates are shown on working frames so you can feel the button action before you choose a finish.