Since toilets no longer stand firmly on the bathroom floor, but are hanging on the wall more and more often, the question arises: Can the toilet break off?
- There are free-standing toilets and wall-hung toilets.
- The latter are firmly connected to the wall.
- But are there also cases where the toilet and the user crashed onto the floor?
Even if you're one of the lightweights, a toilet * may have creaked ominously when you settled on it. But not only in this case one wonders what weight a toilet actually can withstand and whether it can also crash off the wall.
Both hanging and free-standing toilets are firmly anchored to the bathroom wall . This means that they are not simply glued to the tiles, as one might think without thinking, but connected to a stable mounting element that holds them securely in place. So far so good, but how much weight can a toilet take?
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A toilet can withstand this much weight without breaking off
The EU has issued regulations and standards for many areas of life and it does not stop at the toilet *. Toilets that are attached to the wall must be designed so that they can carry loads of up to 400 kilograms . The heaviest person in the world temporarily weighed 595 kilograms, but usually the body weight of an adult is well below this limit.
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What if the toilet breaks off anyway?
If the toilet has not been properly attached to the wall, the 400 kilogram limit does not of course apply. Then it can happen that you end up on the floor with the toilet. However, this hardly happens without a sign. If the toilet is loaded too heavily, there will be cracks in the tile, cracks in the joints * or other damage before the toilet actually breaks off. If an emergency occurs, you should act quickly and turn off all water pipes. You don't have to be afraid of a flood. As a rule, only the water runs out of the cistern, i.e. about nine to twelve liters.
So next time sit down on a hanging toilet and it creaks a little, be calm. At least the risk of this embarrassing toilet breakdown is low.
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