Original plastic toilet seat broke on WC a few months back so bought a new white wooden one to replace it BUT the hinges on it are crap! Have tightened them up numerous times and used threadlock on them but the metal hinge posts that stick up keep coming loose.
Anyone point me to a seat I can fit that doesn't move around once fitted?
I got a nice solid wooden one from Homebase a few years ago. Hinges are stainless steel and well made. There's an invisble rubber washer under the hinge which prevents it sliding and seals against anything leaking through the mounting holes.
Agreed. One of the most important things is to make sure it is the type which has a bar which joins both hinges together. These work loose a lot less then separate hinge types.
The one I got from BES ( made by Carrara and Matta) ,although having seperate hinges, hasn't moved in the slightest in a couple of years .
We have an Ideal Standard "soft close" seat which seems to have much higher quality hinges than your usual bog.
Like these ones:
Ours was ordered through our local Plumb Centre. All the DIY shed seats seem to be as bad as each others.
Tim
Your friend seems just as solid ?
I'd just decided not to post that :-)
fill the area between the screws and porcelain with silicone. Hand thighten. Leave overnight. Screw down hard.
You are not after a 'bog' standard one then? Dave
That's what the previous occupant of our house did. The problem is that the acid in the silicone sealant leeches out over time and corrodes the screws even more than normal. And the residual rust stained silicone was a pig to clean off the toilet when I replaced the seat.
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