Condensation on toilet.

Mines has been dripping wet before (oooh err), leaving small puddles on the floor. It was a mixture between water temp, air temp and humidity at the time. I had no damp, I have no damp, and even if I did it would not be able to transfer around the cistern as described. Dripping wet cisterns are very possible from a combination of normal environmental variances withstanding structural dampness.

As mentioned by someone else, if it was structural dampness you are going to notice it before and elsewhere other than the toilet itself.

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you really dont get that a damp wall can cause humidity to go up in a room do you ?

you do understand that if humidity goes up, it condenses onto cold surfaces..

i haven't said that this is the op's case but it could be, i just threw it out there..



people may believe your bull because you have a big post count but to me, you haven't got a clue
 
ooh i get it now.. you all think i mean dampness rising up through the toilet dont you ?

wow, total fail.. rising damp comes up through walls, not toilets..

it really is like talking to chimps..

rising damp comes up through a wall, which increases humidity, which then if at a really quite high level causes it to condense on the toilet at increased levels, as to cause the cistern to drip.. this can be a factor
 
Mickie said:
you really dont get that a damp wall can cause humidity to go up in a room do you ?

you do understand that if humidity goes up, it condenses onto cold surfaces..

i haven't said that this is the op's case but it could be, i just threw it out there..
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He hasn't complained of a damp room though?

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2 + 2 = 5?


Mickie said:
people may believe your bull because you have a big post count but to me, you haven't got a clue
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People don't take consideration of post size or sig but what someone says, trust me.
 
Mickie said:
ooh i get it now.. you all think i mean dampness rising up through the toilet dont you ?

wow, total fail.. rising damp comes up through walls, not toilets..

it really is like talking to chimps..

rising damp comes up through a wall, which increases humidity, which then if at a really quite high level causes it to condense on the toilet at increased levels, as to cause the cistern to drip.. this can be a factor
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You were essentially completely dismissing the effect of normal environmental humidity and moisture to start with [far more common], and not with just me, and kind of cobbled together something as you went.

It feels like you are taking the mickie, Mickie.
 
Just to add to this, I havent read it all but my office has this issue.

Full airconed, frequent flushing and cold water due to the recent ambient conditions.

Its simply like condensation you get one single plass glass etc, driven by a temperatue differential. The fact toilet has water in just below the cistern exterior will provide local water content in the air aswell.

Rising damp?

Lol.

Oddly enough ive had a dripping tank in my kitchen as well and the tap and the pipe under the sink has proved an effective condensation pipe with water constantly on the surface..... lovely cold water when you go for a glass of water. In my lounge the cold glass will then also form condensation on the outside due to the temperature differential dropping water content in the air into liquid form. Again no rising damp issues in my 2006 build house.
 
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Mickie said:
ooh i get it now.. you all think i mean dampness rising up through the toilet dont you ?

wow, total fail.. rising damp comes up through walls, not toilets..

it really is like talking to chimps..

rising damp comes up through a wall, which increases humidity, which then if at a really quite high level causes it to condense on the toilet at increased levels, as to cause the cistern to drip.. this can be a factor
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Your problem is that you assume everyone is retarded and can't spot rising damp. OP doesn't mention anything about rising damp, damp walls, wet walls etc. I'm fully confident that had OP had rising damp he'd be posting about damp walls. Not condensation on his toilet. Therefore mentioning it is illogical and spending 3 pages arguing that it "could" be rising damp just proves how inept you are at analysis given a certain set of information. Furthermore your assumptions are backwards. As I've already said, it's statistically more likely that OPs toilet is upstairs. In this case you're assuming that he has rising damp across the whole ground floor wall and is ignoring it to post about condensation on his cistern. Your analytical skills, quite frankly, rival that of a childs.
 
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How has this got to 4 pages, its quite simple that the temp of the toilet cistern is below the dew point.

Its the same reason you can buy insulated toilets as until combi boilers became popular the cistern was fed from a header tank and the water was vastly warmer than the mains water that feeds cisterns when you have a combi boiler.

If the OP had rising or penetrating damp he would know about it long before the cistern being wet was an issue.
 
We get this in our house and we even get it on some walls; pretty certain it isn’t damp though just really bad condensation as we only get the issues in winter time because of the temperature difference, summer months even when really wet outside are fine.

A right pain the *** it is!
 
Has the op checked humidity levels ? And if you have what are they.

If it is high. Just blame it on winter. According to most in this thread it's normal to have high humidity.


Even though most people don't have the issue. OC thinks its fine.
 
Mickie said:
Has the op checked humidity levels ? And if you have what are they.

If it is high. Just blame it on winter. According to most in this thread it's normal to have high humidity.


Even though most people don't have the issue. OC thinks its fine.
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You dont seem to get the science, UK houses being so badly made for the past 100 years have huge humidity problems, so bad that they need to have less humidity in the air in winter than summer, you could get the humidity down to 20% (and therefore actually have to add water to the air to stop health issues) and if a surface is cold enough you will get condensation.

To make it easy, if the OP had a humidity problem his toilet would not be the only thing covered in condensation.
 
OK gonna stick my nose back in.

My downstairs lavatory has this issue, but the cistern is fed directly from the water feed into the house. This means, particularly at this time of year, that the water filling said cistern is rather cold and is replaced often (this lavatory is used more than the upstairs one). The upstairs lavatory does not have this problem, but then the water feeding that cistern is from a header tank in the attic, we installed this header to reduce the drop outs in pressure when people use the downstairs lavatory but it has the side effect of allowing the water in it to warm slightly.
Conclusion; a plastic tank full of very cold water in a warm room will cause atmospheric moisture (which is always present in an occupied house) to condense on said tank.
Yeah you could reduce the condensation with some decent HVAC kit, but is it worth it for a seasonal issue that causes no other problems?
 
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You dont seem to get the science, UK houses being so badly made for the past 100 years have huge humidity problems, so bad that they need to have less humidity in the air in winter than summer, you could get the humidity down to 20% (and therefore actually have to add water to the air to stop health issues) and if a surface is cold enough you will get condensation.

To make it easy, if the OP had a humidity problem his toilet would not be the only thing covered in condensation.
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How do you know this doesn't happen ?
 
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