Winter toilet bliss

+1 on the American Standard Toilet with the Champion flush stem. Best toilet ever, and the only one I will recommend.

Hot water in a toilet is a good way to break the toilet.. I mean literally break it.. The porcelain could crack, shatter (or chose a appropriate word), and leave a nice hot wet mess in your house.. Think a connecting rod ventilating a crank case kind of break..

Around here if you leave your house unoccupied during the day, searing hot water will build up in the cold water pipes and will come out the first time you use any water...haven't cracked any toilets so far.

I prefer my toilet seat ice cold and my coffee rocket hot.

RossD wrote: I prefer...my coffee rocket hot.

But hopefully not in a ceramic coffee cup! I hear those things can shatter if you put hot liquids in them.

Toilets are vitreous china, the same as plates and cups. I've seen fat people shatter them, they break easy with a hammer, and they will break if the water in them freezes, but not by heat shock. Here's a funny toilet story, 100% true. I went out to a call to replace a toilet at a rental property. It was in one of those old summer rental places common before the hotels took over Cape Cod. The unit had a bathroom that was one step down from the main bedroom, and the bathroom was built on a slab with tile. Occupant was a drunk former biker guy that had lost a leg in a motorcycle accident a couple of years prior. He got up in the morning, took his shower then went out. Came back to the room, went into the bathroom, but instead of using his crutches, he was hoping on the one leg. He hits the wet tile floor and goes flying head first into the toilet. His head smashes the tank and he is knocked out cold. He ends up slumped with one arm around the toilet and his head down near the floor. Toilet keeps trying to fill. Eventually fills up the whole bathroom to the height of the lip on the shower stall. Guy nearly drowns, but is found and helped by EMTs. I get there, the bathroom is 4" deep in water, water spraying straight up to the ceiling, one legged biker dude with a gash on his forehead is being loaded into an ambulance. Got another story about my dad falling down a flight of stairs with one, shattering it and slicing every tendon in his right hand. We call him grand paw now.

They make bariatric toilets too.

I can attest that you can break one with the weight of 2 people and a hammering action.

http://toilette-humor.com/funny_toilet_humor/how_to_poop_at_work.shtml

u will laugh your ass off

In reply to tr8todd: It's not what they are made of that causes them to break.. Indeed what they are made of will make them less likely to break...

Unfortunately manufacturing defects may be present..

This is most prevalent in older toilets, that have never been exposed to warm or hot water. But can happen in newer ones (usually cheaper models).

All it takes is one air bubble, in the casting, or bonding process..

In most cases a consumer will never have a toilet break since it will never see warm or hot water, since they will be hooked up to cold water only..