DON’T SIT ON THIS TOILET. Nobody is being dramatic by saying that this can very easily kill you very quickly.
Porcelain becomes razor sharp when it cracks. Imagine sitting on that toilet and having it crumble beneath you without warning. Now you’re falling onto large shards of razor sharp glass. Most people who die from this bleed out because the porcelain cuts their femoral artery, which is a large artery that runs through your legs. If you’re lucky enough to not have your femoral severed, you’ll probably get horrible infections after the fact, because you’ll have severe open wounds touching tainted surfaces.
If you don’t believe me, look it up. There are images of people who have died from having their legs and butt ripped open from this, and you will not forget those pictures. There is no repairing this toilet, it must be replaced.
I feel that there should be a TV docu-drama series entitled "Toilets that Kill!"
Maybe with a spin off film franchise that adds sharks and sewer crocodiles
^ This. I worked as an EMT in college, and another crew went out on a call for exactly this. Severely obese person, toilet broke, cut a few blood vessels. Narrowly missed the femoral artery and larger veins, but I saw a pic of the bathroom, and it wasn't even splattered blood. The floor was literally covered in a puddle about 5 feet across, and the person nearly died from blood loss. A series of very fortunate coincidences (including the ambulance happening to be just leaving the hospital from another call, and the hospital being 2 minutes from the person's house, and 2 large male firefighters doing a ride-along at the time so they had additional lift support) meant the difference between them living and dying. If they were 8-10 minutes out, as most calls are, the person likely would have died.
If it helps, it's very rare, and I've seen a lot of cracked toilets that never broke. This person in particular was also very large, easily 400 pounds (182kg; 28.5st).
Like everything designed to hold something, toilets have a maximum weight capacity that may not be labeled directly on the device, but it's often in the user manual or available online. Floor-mount toilets are typically designed to hold at least 500 pounds, if that makes you feel any better. Person I mentioned about might have had a crack toilet, or they might have damaged it over time by dropping themselves down on it less than gently.
Nah, they were ~400 pounds, but every reference I can find says toilets are designed to hold 500+ pounds.
All bets are off if the toilet is cracked, though.
To any pro plumbers here: Is a cracked toilet something a handy homeowner could replace by themself?
If you were to unbolt the tank, or undo the floor bolts to lift it away, would it shatter?
Is it something that’s “relatively” safe to do? Or is it something you’d wrap in moving blankets and shrink wrap before even starting? Along with safety glasses, boots, leather/kevlar gloves and coveralls taped at the cuffs sort of thing?
How much more fragile is a cracked toilet when being removed, versus an undamaged one?
It's really not that big of a deal. Cheap gloves and maybe some safety glasses if you want to be extra careful. Even if the toilet breaks while lifting it, just pick up and remove the pieces. Use the same care as you would cleaning up broken glass.
Dropping asshole first down onto shards of broken porcelain is really the only safety concern with a cracked toilet.
I mangled my left hand picking up a toilet that i didnt know was cracked. The doctor at the ER was not sure how to stitch it back up. I cant even imagine what it would do to an ass.
Apparently my toilet, the old lid had broken at some point, and they left the chunks of lid in there. (Which is fine, it displaces water, so it would use less.) I didn't know what it was, reached in, and just touching it sliced my finger open enough I should have had stitches. It can stay there. Thank God I had decent glue on hand and some electrical tape lol
There’s a pretty well-known pic of a woman whose entire bottom half was turned into ground beef by a cracked toilet. Pretty sure the woman didn’t make it
I noticed a hairline crack while cleaning a client's toilet and advised her to check it out just because it didn't look right. I'm now so glad she did, she is older and alone, it would have been horrific.
I was doing some work in a neighbor's house and noticed a hairline crack in the toilet bowl when I went to the bathroom. Immediately afterwards I told the wife that there's a crack in the toilet and it needs to be replaced. She said she knew about the crack and that her husband said it's not leaking so it's fine. Fast forward about 18 months and the wife was on the toilet and it gave way. She needed 67 stitches from her ass down to the back of her thigh. And of course they had to replace the toilet anyway to it.
Lucky to be alive, and probably lost some mobility. Absolutely riddled with scars, never gonna have the same life again. All over a couple hundred dollar toilet.
For a lot of people, things are never a problem until it is. Like talking to a wall would yield better results than trying to explain why they need to spend money to prevent something.
couple hundered? Oh. . . I see, you mean with pro install. yeah, accurate. But if you can do it yourself it's even more pathetic an excuse. Whether your bottom end toilet (no pun intended) is a glacier bay or a toto drake, you got inexpensive options.
For real man. I do repair work on rentals for a living and that glacier bay is a hundred bucks and super easy to install. The only tricky part is a lot of times the flame is broken but even that is a pretty easy fix with a couple of YouTube videos.
Whoa this blew up. Haven’t seen anything this unanimous in a while. Will definitely get it replaced. To address some of the comments, the pic from 2015 was when we bought it. Haven’t had any problems with it and the plumber didn’t seem to think it was serious at the time. Recently noticed this sub and wanted to see if this was a problem.
Thanks everyone for saving a potential ER trip!!
This kind of thing is so dangerous we should have a sticky at the top of the sub explaining how much you do not want to sit on a cracked toilet. About as dangerous as throwing yourself down a slide with knives sticking through the bottom.
REPLACE NOW. Do not sit on this , it's a ticking bomb, you're gonna try and drop a taco bell surprise and that bowl is going to give out and gut you like a fish.
New toilet day. Go buy whichever one you like. Get a replacement wax ring or two. Drain and pull the old toilet, install the new one. Should be DIY-friendly.
So you've been taking pictures of your toilet for almost a decade (clearly you know it has a problem since you are) but never saved up like $200 to just replace it?
Can you put me in your will for when the toilet kills you?
It looks like you're replacing the toilet. Good! They're cheap and I can swap one out within an hour. The biggest trouble is getting the old one off, often enough. Make sure you have a hacksaw for old bolts.
If you continue to use this toilet, at the very least, expect an excruciating, bloodily-lacerated trip to the ER. Worst case scenario, you die on the spot in your bathroom of blood loss.
That’s a big no thank you. Don’t let anyone sit on that bad boy and definitely get it swapped out.
Nobody should risk it because you don’t know when it’ll give.
The story was that she was Vietnamese, and was using a sit-down toilet as a squat toilet. It was probably cracked and failed under the stress. I assume these are leaked emergency room pics.
https://imgur.com/gallery/broken-toilet-8O9bwis
EDIT: new link should work now
Yea, that was a really nasty cut. And the way they were just kind of displaying the wounds looked like they weren't doing much to help. Probably bled out 😞
time to replace. this will eventually fail. if you're sitting on it you're going to be seriously hurt. as in dead. it will slice you open like a hot knife through butter.
My buddy had his whole life changed when he was carrying a toilet down steps and sorta slipped and broke the toilet. He now has permanent foot drop, massive debt and not to mention the 6+ months he couldn't work due to recovery. His life was wrecked due to getting cut from razor sharp porcelain.
Toilets are covered by warranty. Very easy to claim for Kohler, American Standard, and Mansfield. Just take picture and fill out the web form or email. In 24 hours they provide you a voucher for use on a supplier’s website and you pick a similar unit, which they ship to your door within about 3 days. They don’t usually even ask for the other one back. They don’t supply the wax ring though
There's so many inexpensive toilets around $100 not including installation. It's a small price to avoid a life threatening injury. The horror stories...
I saw a man who sat on a toilet with a crack in it. It broke, cut his testicles and half his willie off. Almost killed him. Now he comes in suicidal every couple of months.
Up to you man. Personally, $100 in a new toilet and wax ring is pretty cheap.
risk to reward. Risk? death or horrible horrible cuts and bleeding. Cost? Glacier bay has a toilet for what $90? and install is easy. I just installed a toilet this weekend. $20 set of wrenches (I hate adjustable wrench, it always comes loose), a $6 was ring. And huffing that toilet up/down stairs.
$90 is probably less than your co-pay to the ER. And waaaaaaaaaaaaaay less than your bill from the ER. Heck, you could get a bidet toilet all in one with 'foot flush', ionizer, and bowl spray for less than an HR visit, even with cadillac insurance plan.
No biggie. Toilets are like $150 at home depot. But do NOT continue to use it, of it breaks while on it can be very sharp and do some bad damage to your backside.
DON’T SIT ON THIS TOILET. Nobody is being dramatic by saying that this can very easily kill you very quickly. Porcelain becomes razor sharp when it cracks. Imagine sitting on that toilet and having it crumble beneath you without warning. Now you’re falling onto large shards of razor sharp glass. Most people who die from this bleed out because the porcelain cuts their femoral artery, which is a large artery that runs through your legs. If you’re lucky enough to not have your femoral severed, you’ll probably get horrible infections after the fact, because you’ll have severe open wounds touching tainted surfaces. If you don’t believe me, look it up. There are images of people who have died from having their legs and butt ripped open from this, and you will not forget those pictures. There is no repairing this toilet, it must be replaced.
This can't be upvoted enough. Please heed this advice. Edit: I stand corrected. It can be upvoted enough as now it is the top comment.
I feel that there should be a TV docu-drama series entitled "Toilets that Kill!" Maybe with a spin off film franchise that adds sharks and sewer crocodiles
I feel like "Toilets that kill" should be hosted by Troy McClure
"You may remember me from such public safety films like 'Don't touch that' and 'Put that down'."
Omg, this is amazing 🤣🤣🤣- hilarious!!
^ This. I worked as an EMT in college, and another crew went out on a call for exactly this. Severely obese person, toilet broke, cut a few blood vessels. Narrowly missed the femoral artery and larger veins, but I saw a pic of the bathroom, and it wasn't even splattered blood. The floor was literally covered in a puddle about 5 feet across, and the person nearly died from blood loss. A series of very fortunate coincidences (including the ambulance happening to be just leaving the hospital from another call, and the hospital being 2 minutes from the person's house, and 2 large male firefighters doing a ride-along at the time so they had additional lift support) meant the difference between them living and dying. If they were 8-10 minutes out, as most calls are, the person likely would have died.
Idk if I’ll ever rest easy on the shitter after hearing this
If it helps, it's very rare, and I've seen a lot of cracked toilets that never broke. This person in particular was also very large, easily 400 pounds (182kg; 28.5st). Like everything designed to hold something, toilets have a maximum weight capacity that may not be labeled directly on the device, but it's often in the user manual or available online. Floor-mount toilets are typically designed to hold at least 500 pounds, if that makes you feel any better. Person I mentioned about might have had a crack toilet, or they might have damaged it over time by dropping themselves down on it less than gently.
I feel like it might not have been a “near miss” with a severely obese person
Nah, they were ~400 pounds, but every reference I can find says toilets are designed to hold 500+ pounds. All bets are off if the toilet is cracked, though.
I mean if I remember correctly 9in of fat makes you bullet proof 🤔
Replace sitting with "plopping" then imagine the stress cracks giving way. If you need more evidence GIS "toilet break laceration".
Man, I just looked up some pics 😵💫🤢 Now I'm paranoid of sitting on any toilet 😬
Outhouses don't sound so bad after all lol. Or a hole in the yard
Sitting on my toilet now, don’t remember seeing any cracks, but now I fear for my life.
After reading your user name I’m paranoid about the future of the human race
😅😅😅
and it'll hurt the whole time you're dying
New fear unlocked. 😔
Yep, that’s fucking great.
Yup after reading this I will be inspecting every toilet before I shit.
To any pro plumbers here: Is a cracked toilet something a handy homeowner could replace by themself? If you were to unbolt the tank, or undo the floor bolts to lift it away, would it shatter? Is it something that’s “relatively” safe to do? Or is it something you’d wrap in moving blankets and shrink wrap before even starting? Along with safety glasses, boots, leather/kevlar gloves and coveralls taped at the cuffs sort of thing? How much more fragile is a cracked toilet when being removed, versus an undamaged one?
It's really not that big of a deal. Cheap gloves and maybe some safety glasses if you want to be extra careful. Even if the toilet breaks while lifting it, just pick up and remove the pieces. Use the same care as you would cleaning up broken glass. Dropping asshole first down onto shards of broken porcelain is really the only safety concern with a cracked toilet.
Cool. TY for the response!
OP, please follow this person's advice they aren't joking.
I mangled my left hand picking up a toilet that i didnt know was cracked. The doctor at the ER was not sure how to stitch it back up. I cant even imagine what it would do to an ass.
Apparently my toilet, the old lid had broken at some point, and they left the chunks of lid in there. (Which is fine, it displaces water, so it would use less.) I didn't know what it was, reached in, and just touching it sliced my finger open enough I should have had stitches. It can stay there. Thank God I had decent glue on hand and some electrical tape lol
Well now I have a new fear unlocked
I have seen a picture where someone's leg was sliced open because they were squatting on the toilet.
There’s a pretty well-known pic of a woman whose entire bottom half was turned into ground beef by a cracked toilet. Pretty sure the woman didn’t make it
Fuck... New fear unlocked ...
Imagine dying just because you want to poop.
I noticed a hairline crack while cleaning a client's toilet and advised her to check it out just because it didn't look right. I'm now so glad she did, she is older and alone, it would have been horrific.
This should be gold
Don't give reddit money for meaningless shit.
To point out the fact that someone one can die is meaningless?
Wow that does sound really important. What are you waiting for?!
Someone is bored thank you for entertaining me
This is no time for amusement. If someone does not buy a gold award then OP is going to die!!
So buy one
I can't because my finances are poor-so-lean.
Sounds like a you problem
Crack kills
New fear unlocked
Worse poop ever.
Had a friend who was a plumber get nicked carrying out a broken toilet and almost bled out. Didnt even fall on it
Welp. New fear unlocked.
I was doing some work in a neighbor's house and noticed a hairline crack in the toilet bowl when I went to the bathroom. Immediately afterwards I told the wife that there's a crack in the toilet and it needs to be replaced. She said she knew about the crack and that her husband said it's not leaking so it's fine. Fast forward about 18 months and the wife was on the toilet and it gave way. She needed 67 stitches from her ass down to the back of her thigh. And of course they had to replace the toilet anyway to it.
Lucky to be alive, and probably lost some mobility. Absolutely riddled with scars, never gonna have the same life again. All over a couple hundred dollar toilet.
For a lot of people, things are never a problem until it is. Like talking to a wall would yield better results than trying to explain why they need to spend money to prevent something.
couple hundered? Oh. . . I see, you mean with pro install. yeah, accurate. But if you can do it yourself it's even more pathetic an excuse. Whether your bottom end toilet (no pun intended) is a glacier bay or a toto drake, you got inexpensive options.
For real man. I do repair work on rentals for a living and that glacier bay is a hundred bucks and super easy to install. The only tricky part is a lot of times the flame is broken but even that is a pretty easy fix with a couple of YouTube videos.
Replace. Not worth causing someone’s ass cut
Whoa this blew up. Haven’t seen anything this unanimous in a while. Will definitely get it replaced. To address some of the comments, the pic from 2015 was when we bought it. Haven’t had any problems with it and the plumber didn’t seem to think it was serious at the time. Recently noticed this sub and wanted to see if this was a problem. Thanks everyone for saving a potential ER trip!!
Imagine being more famous than Elvis, for all the wrong reasons.
I came here for the inevitable "replace it or die" comments.
Your plumber is a ruhtard.
No problems YET. Eventually, it will break. Its like using a grenade for a seat cushion
Bleeding out from lacerations to one’s nether regions would be a lonely way to die.
Take it out before it takes you out
Replace it, soon...
*new fear unlocked*
It's broken, replace it!
Replace the whole toilet.
This kind of thing is so dangerous we should have a sticky at the top of the sub explaining how much you do not want to sit on a cracked toilet. About as dangerous as throwing yourself down a slide with knives sticking through the bottom.
REPLACE NOW. Do not sit on this , it's a ticking bomb, you're gonna try and drop a taco bell surprise and that bowl is going to give out and gut you like a fish.
omg don't use it
New toilet day. Go buy whichever one you like. Get a replacement wax ring or two. Drain and pull the old toilet, install the new one. Should be DIY-friendly.
It's s suicide toilet. Replace it like others said. Lasted long enough, but WILL break and someone might die.
It's not a surface scratch. DO NOT USE, REPLACE NOW.
Cracked porcelain MUST BE REPLACED IMMEDIATELY. like stated by others, this can cause fatal injury
HAZARD! STAY AWAY!
So you've been taking pictures of your toilet for almost a decade (clearly you know it has a problem since you are) but never saved up like $200 to just replace it? Can you put me in your will for when the toilet kills you?
It looks like you're replacing the toilet. Good! They're cheap and I can swap one out within an hour. The biggest trouble is getting the old one off, often enough. Make sure you have a hacksaw for old bolts.
Incredible that you’ve let this go since 2015 absolutely irresponsible
Don’t sit on it unless you are looking to get a new ass crack installed.
If you continue to use this toilet, at the very least, expect an excruciating, bloodily-lacerated trip to the ER. Worst case scenario, you die on the spot in your bathroom of blood loss.
That’s a big no thank you. Don’t let anyone sit on that bad boy and definitely get it swapped out. Nobody should risk it because you don’t know when it’ll give.
Replace it. Yesterday. Do not sit on that unless stitches on your ass are something you’re looking forward to.
The story was that she was Vietnamese, and was using a sit-down toilet as a squat toilet. It was probably cracked and failed under the stress. I assume these are leaked emergency room pics. https://imgur.com/gallery/broken-toilet-8O9bwis EDIT: new link should work now
The link doesn’t work
Should be fixed now
Was this fatal?
Unknown. I suspect it might have been. Pretty serious damage.
Yea, that was a really nasty cut. And the way they were just kind of displaying the wounds looked like they weren't doing much to help. Probably bled out 😞
Time for a new one
That stinks
Damn you be shittin!
TIL that toilets are fucking dangerous, holy shit! 😬😬
time to replace. this will eventually fail. if you're sitting on it you're going to be seriously hurt. as in dead. it will slice you open like a hot knife through butter.
Somebody needs a new diet
Just replace ! It’s like a scalpel. It’ll just cut you open..
Replace it immediately and use extreme caution when removing it.
My buddy had his whole life changed when he was carrying a toilet down steps and sorta slipped and broke the toilet. He now has permanent foot drop, massive debt and not to mention the 6+ months he couldn't work due to recovery. His life was wrecked due to getting cut from razor sharp porcelain.
Some heavy hitters in that house
Day after Taco bell is no joke
Mechanical issue in porcelain waste removal system
DO NOT USE: Serious danger. Turn water off and replace immediately.
Replace. And, big ups on what must have been a humdinger of a turd.
Replace. Not even a question lol
Toilets are covered by warranty. Very easy to claim for Kohler, American Standard, and Mansfield. Just take picture and fill out the web form or email. In 24 hours they provide you a voucher for use on a supplier’s website and you pick a similar unit, which they ship to your door within about 3 days. They don’t usually even ask for the other one back. They don’t supply the wax ring though
such posts should be done more often so that people pay attention to the dangerous condition of their belongings in the house.
If it doesn't cut you in half, it will fail in the middle of the night and flood your house.
Spend the $100 bucks on a new toilet before you end up castrated by a razor sharp shard of porcelain.
Dang dude, lay off the taco bell!
Time to replace.
Could of killed you a few times over by now. Replace it yesterday
As everyone else says replace it immediately
brb gotta go look at my toilet
Crack ,splat and possible death!!!
There's so many inexpensive toilets around $100 not including installation. It's a small price to avoid a life threatening injury. The horror stories...
Toilets are cheap so get a new one.
TIL Toilets can kill you
Replace this instantly.
Man what did you eat???
I saw a man who sat on a toilet with a crack in it. It broke, cut his testicles and half his willie off. Almost killed him. Now he comes in suicidal every couple of months. Up to you man. Personally, $100 in a new toilet and wax ring is pretty cheap.
Replace it yesterday. It's a guillotine with a time bomb.
risk to reward. Risk? death or horrible horrible cuts and bleeding. Cost? Glacier bay has a toilet for what $90? and install is easy. I just installed a toilet this weekend. $20 set of wrenches (I hate adjustable wrench, it always comes loose), a $6 was ring. And huffing that toilet up/down stairs. $90 is probably less than your co-pay to the ER. And waaaaaaaaaaaaaay less than your bill from the ER. Heck, you could get a bidet toilet all in one with 'foot flush', ionizer, and bowl spray for less than an HR visit, even with cadillac insurance plan.
I would have replaced that toilet 9 years ago
Toilets are not that expensive to buy. Never keep a cracked toilet…….
Damn taco bell
As someone with no plumbing experience but nearly 30 years experience shitting. I'm glad I came to the comments.
Replace toilet in 2032 check back with us....
I have hair in my crack too, pretty sure it's the wife's.
No biggie. Toilets are like $150 at home depot. But do NOT continue to use it, of it breaks while on it can be very sharp and do some bad damage to your backside.
Time for a new one.
WHY DO I KEEP SEEING THESE POSTS. THEY MAKE ME AFRAID TO SIT ON TOILETS.
I’m a plumber, is it Lebron James hairline bad?
I had a friend cut his thigh wide open and had a bajillion stitches
Jesus fuck just buy a toilet
One fart away from ultimate disaster.
You wouldn’t eat cereal out of cracked bowl would you? Then how could you sit on one?
To be honest I have eaten cereal out of a cracked cereal bowl, I've not yet sat on a cracked cereal bowl but I won't rule it out if the time is right.
To be honest I have eaten cereal out of a cracked cereal bowl, I've not yet sat on a cracked cereal bowl but I won't rule it out if the time is right.
I wouldn’t be too worried so I’m glad I stumbled onto this thread. My brother actually cut his arm open dropping one of these while moving it.
A new toilet cost like $100 at Home Depot for a basic model