Said It Here

Found a crack in a brand new toilet

A cracked porcelain fixture poses severe injury risks and must be replaced immediately before installation is finished. Because the damage was discovered on a brand-new unit before its first use, the fixture cannot be installed safely and requires an immediate return or warranty replacement.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

  1. 1
    Replacing the fixture immediately before use to avoid structural collapse or injury.
  2. 2
    hovering over the toilet
  3. 3
    using a jar in the toilet as a warning
  4. 4
    shitting in a hole in the woods
  5. 5
    hover squat
  6. 6
    put some TP down first
  7. 7
    put the toilet seat down
  8. 8
    repair with ramen or bubblegum

In their words

Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.

iS tHiS dANgeROuS?!source ↗

crosstrackerror · r/Plumbing · 147 upvotes

That needs replaced before you end up with an involuntary porcelain ass dildo.source ↗

parnasas · r/Plumbing · 3 upvotes

Looks dangerous tbh.source ↗

FlatAd8033 · r/Plumbing · 3 upvotes

Haven’t even used it. Placed it yesterday and it seemed off.source ↗

Famous-Snow-6888 · r/Plumbing · 1 upvotes

My eyes went twice as big seeing this picture. This is unusable.source ↗

quadraquint · r/Plumbing · 1 upvotes

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