Hot water connected to a toilet

**Gene South** · 07-06-2009, 03:26 PM

I met a guy this weekend who told me he had heard something like 30% of all toilets are supplied incorrectly with hot water. I rarely see it so it is no where near 30% from my experience. Wondering if others see this and how often ?

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**Jim Luttrall** · 07-06-2009, 03:43 PM

Rarely but it does happen and it would be easy to miss since I typically only flush once unless I suspect a problem.

Leigh Goodman · 07-06-2009, 03:53 PM

Sometimes this is done on purpose because the owner once lived with a "sweaty" toilet bowl (actually condensation and not sweat). I am not recommending this but I have seen it done by design.

**Rick Hurst** · 07-06-2009, 05:06 PM

Never seen one here. 30% sounds like a BS number.

rick

**Rick Hurst** · 07-06-2009, 09:14 PM

Toilets are full of bacteria and heated water would only encourage the growth of bacteria. This is why heated water is not to used in toilets for water supply.

rick

**Jerry Peck** · 07-06-2009, 09:16 PM

I've seen it a few times.

That is the reason I started flushing the toilets AFTER getting hot water to the shower/tub, and then flushing a couple of times.

Have heard that can cause the toilet to crack. I have seen a few cracked toilets but they did not have hot to them (but may have years before?).

When you find a cracked toilet, write it up for replacement, it COULD FAIL with someone sitting on it, and that could be a nightmare you do not want to be involved in.

30% is bunk, not even 3%, not even 0.03% - at least not that I've seen.

Let's say you inspect 5,000 two bathroom two toilet homes for 10,000 toilets and find maybe at most 5 plumbed with hot. That is 0.0005%.