Toilet covered in condensation

Dick_here

Now that the weather has turned colder and the heating is on, it's permanently like this and drips down onto the floor. Any suggestions as to how to improve matters or is it a 'put up with it' scenario ?

Barneysmom

I open the window a little bit during the day but I end up drying it with loo roll! :rolleyes:

evilgoose

our loo is the same. You could fill it with warm water .

But being serious, I've thought about putting some form of insulation in the tank, but not sure what you could use. - it'll also have the effect of reducing the capacity of the tank so you use less water per flush.

sunshine54

the air is warm, and the water will be cold in the cistern during the winter, but the condenstion problem is primarily due to the humidity in the room. leaving the window open has already been suggested or install an extractor fan in room.

ROSIE_4

Before my toilet cystern was installed I lined it with a layer of polystyrene glued to all sides of cystern about (half an inch in thickness) cant quite remember but think used bathroom caulk to do it - but it definitely did the job!

Meadows

Have you got a 'Hippo Water Saver' in the cistern?
As this stops you using so much water when you flush, so therefore the water it retains would stay at room temperature and the filling of the cistern would be using less cold water, this may help to equalize the water temperature and cause less condensation.

wallbash

If its humidity within the room, which sounds correct, its not a problem with the toilet but with atmosphere. Mucking about with insulation on the cistern is only going to move the problem to the next coldest area. The window !!
Extract warm damp air, solve problem. But its tough to spend cash heating the air up. only to have to throw it away.

Greenr

!!!!!!_here wrote: »

Now that the weather has turned colder and the heating is on, it's permanently like this and drips down onto the floor. Any suggestions as to how to improve matters or is it a 'put up with it' scenario ?

I bought one of those slim sandwich trays which sits nicely under the ciscert and catches the condensation that drips off!! I manged to find a plain black one...

maninthestreet

Wrap the outside of the cistern with bubblewrap.

andrew-b

This problem has been covered before here.

We have this condensation problem but as i'm refurbishing the bathroom i'm doing a couple of things to try and eliminate the problem. First thing i've done is switched the water supply to the toilet from a cold mains feed to cold feed from the tank. Cold water from the tank should be slightly warmer as it's being stored at loft temperature - higher temperature of water means smaller temperature difference in the wall of the cistern. It's the temperature difference which is one factor required for condensation to form.
Second thing i'll be doing is installing a concealed cistern that comes complete with insulation: http://www.screwfix.com/prods/42372/Bathrooms/Commercial-Range/WC-Suites/Grohe-EAU-Cistern-Dual-Flush
..that picture doesn't show it but when you take it out of the box the whole bottom section (white section in the picture) is covered in polystyrene insulation. I nearly mistook it for the packaging! I may also stuff the boxing-in housing the cistern full of loft insulation to add even more insulation (we just did that with some boxing-in of pipework where there wasn't room for standard pipe insulation).

Andy

fatnbald

Meadows wrote: »

Have you got a 'Hippo Water Saver' in the cistern?

Didn't they used to call that a brick? :rotfl::think:;)