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Heting with a Toilet

Home Depot Employee
Home Depot Employee Member Posts: 329
in THE MAIN WALL
If your going to have a heated seat, it might as well squirt water and blow dry too

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  • Kickbundler
    Kickbundler Member Posts: 10
    Heating with a Toilet

    I have a tiny bathroom in my house that is cut off from sources of heat and most air exchange with the rest of the house. This bathroom gets a little chilly during the depths of winter. It occurred to me that I could route hot water to the toilet during the winter to provide a little radiant heat to the room. It's probably not the greatest solution but it would be cheap and easy to install a couple of valves and some tubing.

    Does anyone know of a downside to this idea?
  • JohnNY
    JohnNY Member Posts: 3,291
    Don't do that.

    None of the toilet parts are made to work with hot water and they will become misshapen quickly. You can also melt the wax seal on the floor flange.
    I've seen it happen when there is a cross connection in a building.

    Think about getting a little strip of electric baseboard element.

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  • Timco
    Timco Member Posts: 3,040
    'waste' of energy

    The toilet is double wall and would not radiate much at all, and the water is not very hot unless many consecutive flushes brought hot water to the toilet. Also, warm toilet lets bacteria breed more quickly. Best solution is electric heater plugged in, or hard wired from line run on outside of house.

    Tim
    Just a guy running some pipes.
  • Mark Eatherton
    Mark Eatherton Member Posts: 5,858
    How about...

    a heated seat!

    http://warmerbuns.com/product.html

    ME

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  • Steamhead (in transit)
    Steamhead (in transit) Member Posts: 6,688
    I'll second that

    having used these units in Japan.

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  • mtfallsmikey
    mtfallsmikey Member Posts: 765
    No one mentioned

    What happens when you fill a toilet with hot water...ask me how I know!
  • skip_3
    skip_3 Member Posts: 2
    relative

    do i know you my name is hetling
  • Ron Gillen_6
    Ron Gillen_6 Member Posts: 1
    Radiant Floor

    No one mentioned electric radiant floor grid. Time and place for everything and I think this might be the place.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    or do what we do...

    While up in the cabin without electric and indoor plumbing, in northeast Minnesota, we keep the spare toilet seat warm by hanging it above the wood burning stove. Its a real blessing to be able to read the whole heating.help article in one sitting out in the outhouse during new year's eve, at one time, its was 10 below..
  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    Now

    theres some good old Amercian thinking :)

    Scott

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  • V8toilet
    V8toilet Member Posts: 71


    I thought this thread was a stab at my user name!
  • Jim Bennett
    Jim Bennett Member Posts: 607
    OK, I'll Bite....

    mtfallsmikey

    What does happen when you fill a toilet with hot water?

    I'm guessing a thermal crack?

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  • Bart Vaio
    Bart Vaio Member Posts: 56
    Hot water

    In a cold China toilet will crack the toilet. It's happened to us a few times an it is not good!!!
  • bob young
    bob young Member Posts: 2,177
    ignorance is bliss

    i have see scalding boiler water dumped in china bowls numerous times with zero negative results. i know it is not good practice but maybe just the luck of the draw.
  • realolman
    realolman Member Posts: 513
    The toilet

    shouldn't condense water vapor in the summer. :)

    I imagine the tank would help heat the room, but I think it'd kill me to heat DHW and fire it down the terlit.

    I like the idea of hanging your seat above the kitchen range to warm it up. Thanksgivng day with all the cooking and users, it oughta be pretty.....uh... nice? ;)

    Happy Thanksgiving.
  • mtfallsmikey
    mtfallsmikey Member Posts: 765
    For Mr. Bennett:

    On a remodel job years ago, we were running behind schedule, Dad ran the water lines to the second floor bath, piped hot water to the toilet. The trap in the bowl shattered, sending water all over the floor, and down thru the ceiling...I laughed my butt off!..Dad was not amused tho.
  • nicholas bonham-carter
    nicholas bonham-carter Member Posts: 8,578
    picture oretty

    i would love to see that!
    used to go up to ely [minn.] years ago-wonderful part of the world.the northern lights put on quite a show--nbc
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    nbc

    Nbc, when are ya going back up in Ely, minn? My cabin about 35 miles east ( Isabella). I usually go there during full moon week in sept and sometimes crazy to go up there during new year eve..
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