Winter toilet bliss

Fill your toilet with hot water. I had no idea a toasty toilet could bring such pleasure.

We froze the cold water line in the wall the other day. Due to magical plumbing, if you left the hot water running in the sink, the hot water would back feed through the unfrozen part of the cold water line, and fill the toilet tank with hot water. Which makes the seat toasty warm (not creepy other buttocks warm). The hot tank also feels very nice against your back. Who knew!

It was so nice, I'm thinking about modifying the plumbing to allow for adjustable hot water filling. Really!

I think it could also work well in the summer, preventing tank sweating from the cold water. Fill it with tepid water instead, and there should be no sweating. Double bonus!

My brother in law plumbed his toilets with hot water to eliminate tank sweating and it works great.

Until you start throwing up. I learned this when I got e-coli a few years back and I happened to be staying at his place when it hit. There are times when you need that nice cool toilet rim to rest your forehead on. The last thing you need after clearing the bowl for the third time is some nice toilet steam hitting your sweaty, pale face.

Woody wrote: My brother in law plumbed his toilets with hot water to eliminate tank sweating and it works great. Until you start throwing up. I learned this when I got e-coli a few years back and I happened to be staying at his place when it hit. There are times when you need that nice cool toilet rim to rest your forehead on. The last thing you need after clearing the bowl for the third time is some nice toilet steam hitting your sweaty, pale face.

No matter how deep into medical journals I delve, I will never read anything as nasty as that in my life.

Oh, I've got better stuff than that...

only at GRM would a thread be titled toilet bliss

I'm speechless.

Way too much information.

Hot water flushes? I don't see the benefit. Maybe you're spending too much time on the commode?

You want gross? I've got some gross....

In reply to Dr. Hess:

Heated seat, yea.

Hot water... might as well plumb like bidet.

"toilet steam" is my new favorite insult.

This is the most first world thread I've read in a while. It's not bad enough that we take perfectly clean water and...evacuate into it, now we're heating the clean water first?

(This post is tongue-in-cheek. Mainly.)

Oooo, you have obviously not been to Japan or Korea! They have these wondrous automated toilets that not only spritz your nethers, they offer height, pulse and intensity, and then blow dry you with warm air.

I'm thinking that anywhere around here that did that would get raided

well. they say steam cleans the pores (pours?)

Cold toilets have less bacteria since most organisms can't live on cold surfaces long. Having a warm toilet might give you pink eye.

You don't plumb them directly with hot water unless you really like wasting money. There is a mixing valve that is adjustable. You plumb hot and cold to the valve. The point is so you can deliver water closer in temperature to the atmospheric temp so the toilet tank doesn't sweat on hot humid days. Very common in beachfront areas. On Cape Cod in the summer, especially rental properties where the house is overstuffed, the toilets will sweat so bad that the floor under the toilet will rot away. I can't begin to tell you how many calls I get for a leak behind the toilet after a couple of hot humid days. During the less humid times, you simply shut the valve that supplies the hot water to the mixing valve.

I accidentally connected the toilet supply line to the hot branch when sweating all new copper when I did a new master bathroom a couple years ago. I did this when the room was in bare joists and studs, so everything was inaccessible when I discovered the error. And I'd done all the copper in one day and was working and not posting pics on Facebook, so no pictures existed of how I'd routed it. My best guess was that the area I'd need to access to fix it was directly above an HVAC closet in the downstairs shop.

When I finally got my courage up and cut an exploratory hole in the shop ceiling (already hacked up from a rush job running ethernet and video cable through a bunch of joists to get the teevee in the bedroom) I was majorly surprised and stoked to find the afflicted area easily accessible right before the closet. I'd put the room on ball valves - always do that, OK? - so I shut it off, sweated it apart, tee'd off the cold side, bridged the hot and we had a nice cool toilet once again.

For what it's worth, that toilet was on a perfect new flange set in thinset over a new perfect subfloor w/ flat 10mm porcelain tile, and the wax ring was weeping after 1-1/2 years. I theorize it was the hot flushing.

Finally I got my

Woody wrote: Oh, I've got better stuff than that...

I don't doubt you my friend. I don't doubt you.

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i keep my house at a nice 72, never seen no toilet sweat nor do i care for a warm toilet seat in florida.

I had a bad faucet in the bathroom, heating the cold water lines in the area.. Only happen 1st thing in the morning.

Does Moparman have a valid point about bacteria problems? I have heard that before (hot water = bacteria breeding on seats and stuff). I'm not a doctor, a scientist, or even an actor (I just play one on TV), but it made sense when I first heard it.

Not that they're the cleanest things on Earth anyway.

Bacteria like being warm, the colder they get, the slower they reproduce.

one thing to keep in mind (assuming I remember my schooling from so long ago … lol )

you can keep "bugs" under control with cold (think refrigerating food) .. but heat (extreme heat) is all that will kill them

my father was a bacteriologist, and he would store cultures in the refrigerator, he would grow them in an incubator (heat), and he would clean his transfer instrument with fire